Hey i am thinking of differnt ways to keep my AC with the HF manifold. this is going on my 98 civic with a AR t3.
One way is to have an angled adapter plate around 70 degerees and about 4" thick, this way the turbo will hug the block. There is a small gap it might fit in. The only thing that might cause a problem is the piping.
The other was is to have an adapter plate on the HF manifold conected to a exaust pipe that goes where stock air box is, then another adapter plate to conect the turbo.
Just tring to use what i have to work with. i am not sure of any extra lag i might incur.
Has any one tried any thing like this be4?
Any other sugestions on how to keep the AC let me know.
Thanks

 

mount it backwards greddy style so the intake sits towards pasegner side

 

Still wont fit, their just isnt enough clearence their, we tried a few times mocking different turbos up on a engine with ac. The only one that could work was maybe the RHb5 with the HF manifold. Its just such a damn tight fit.

Your better off just making a custom manifold if you want AC

Jeff

 

the only thing is i dont know how to do that. And there like $300 gow come greedy can keep ac?

 

mount it at a 45* angle so your turbo sits lower on one side haaha JK



I would do the same manifold that jeff did on his built ZC project. This should let you keep AC but im sure it cost about 1500 bucks.....

 

I was thinking that w/ the hf mani if you guys made your adapter plates 'cocked' to one side, IE like wedge shaped, you could do it- It's an odd idea, but, if you counter-sunk the holes on one side, so the turbo sat crooked, it might work. Then, the downpipe exit would be angled downwards from the get-go, and you'd be able to right it right past the a/c compressor easy. Instead of a flat adapter plate, make it like this:

This is the manifold
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Now, due to the limits of drawing with text, that is a very disproportionate pic. I'll draw one with paint. But, you get hte idea... Give me a few minutes to do it in paint, i'll clear it up.

 

Here's a 'paint' version of it. Will it work?

 

my bad-

and my apologies!

 

Thanks Quest
thats sort of what i was saying just have it hug the block more not out to the side. But i didn't think of that. i will look at it and see if it will work.
thanks