Wondering if anyone has experience with budget performance mods? Curious about k-series stuff but any ebay specials are welcome
Car I'm potentially gonna put a junk turbo kit is a 96 civic hatchback with a k24a2 in it. My thoughts are that I'll likely wind up replacing a number of things on the kit once they shit the bed anyways. Wastegate especially, however the whole kit is only 680 new on ebay.
Anyone know if the cast Manis fit in a k swap? Seems almost everyone goes sidewinder, likely for a reason.
I'm also wondering if anyone has tuned for themselves, regardless of car? I'm in a tuning deadzone but I have hondata so I'm going to try my hand at tuning. Largely getting afrs within range and not playing with timing so much. I don't care if I'm making tons and tons of power by having aggressive ass timing.
everything is made in china now so it’ll all basically be fine, except for the turbo maybe.
>96 Civic Hatch
>K24a2
You don't even need a turbo man you already have a torque powerful 4 banger in a light chassis
Yeah I haven't driven the car a ton lol been enjoying wrenching on it more than driving it. I certainly won't daily it as I don't feel comfortable driving my son around in it.
>Yeah I haven't driven the car a ton lol been enjoying wrenching on it more than driving it.
we know, thats why you made a dumb thread about trying to find more work for yourself
>dumb thread
>thread about actually working on vehicles and not just stupid banter about which car you'd drive if you didn't ride the bus
Pick one.
working on vehicles for no end is dumb
t.doing my motor mounts in an hour because theyre shot
The end is I get a faster car for not a ton of money.
I also have built it, besides injectors and a rail, with a turbo in mind eventually. When I bought the stuff for it my mindset was buy once cry once. Got kpro, 500 hp rated axles, 400 hp rated clutch, and walbro 255.
i’ve watched a few of these ebay turbo civic installs, seems like there is always a bit of fucking around involved, fabricating mounts or pipes. it won’t be plug and play so as long as you have the knowledge to troubleshoot go ahead, i wouldn’t
I have a large private shop (2500 sq ft) and a welder. My thoughts were I could just fab something up. Is it possible to fab up a mani with unshielded flux core? I'm pretty good at exhaust, done several cars. Had to weld one of my mounts in on the swap since the nut turned in the frame rail. Also just practice for fun often.
Yes.
It's just like building an exhaust but with thicker steel. You don't have to go crazy using 7mm steampipe btw, just something a bit thicker than the usual <2mm exhaust pipe will do. Most cheap flux core welders will handle it.
I'll have to give it a try. I'll probably buy a collector
I already have a 3d printer, though I have hard race mounts as is because
Is correct it is not a daily driver. The shifts are very crisp and aggressive and so is throttle reaponse. Took it out last night in the rain and was spinning all over.
You don't need fancy collector bullshit - go look at a bunch of stock manifolds, most of them look like shit because it makes 2/10ths of fuckall difference on a turbo motor.
That's why "log manifolds" are so popular for Turbo DIYers.
I know practically nothing about the subject, but seems like the bearings in those chiner turbos would be completely untrustworthy.
From what I've read you can get good ebay turbos. Everyone essentially say, check it for shaft play once it shows up and make sure to prime it. Check if for shaft play often, the ageeance seems to be that it's cheaper to buy 10 100 dollar ebay turbos and keep a close eye on them than to buy a 1k+ turbo.
10 cheaper than 1
way she goes these days, unfortunately
ebay turbo "kits" are trash
Learn yourself a skill and make your own log manifold
build your own dump pipe too
charge pipe is just a mix and match of what combination of piping and silicone joiners fit
Either learn to do it yourself or pay someone to do it properly IMO
>ebay specials are welcome
Ebay can be bad at pricing, found some spare parts cheaper from dealer even.
You’re not gonna be able to put that turbo in your car and expect it to work for $680. Budget like $3k and then go for it. There’s ALWAYS a bunch if shit you dont expect when you go into something as invasive as this
The best budget performance mod is switching to poly bushings all around. And the cheapest way to do that is to buy a 3D printer and casting polyurethane and make them yourself. Printer does not count in cost because it's a tool, you never count tools in the budget unless they will never be used again (like a super specific socket) or you break them in the process.
I wouldn't go poly on a daily driver, though a k swap civic probably isn't a daily.