Hey guys. I've been cruising the site and looking around at the automatic turbo threads, and there are quite a few, but most don't really mention that much. I wanted to start a thread that talks strickly about people that have boosted autos. Please tell us your setup and your likes/dislikes about it. Also include what you plan to do in the future about the turbo and transmission. Guys, please keep this thread on track, as I think it will aid in new members finding it easier to located an answer to that all to popular repost, "Can I boost my auto civic?" Thanks again.
since SF actually still has my kit, i might actually go back to boosting the civic than trading in for a GSR, its not for certain though BUT if i should keep the AT civic and boost it here are my future plans
TCI master racing overhaul kit
B&M tranny cooler
GReddy PRofec B spec II boost controller
Torque Converter (undecided, i heard JMO's prices suck so i'm looking into other companies)
Alcohol Injection
and farther down the road i would build up the internals,.... pistons, rods, sleeves, valve springs, PnP, etc...
since it seems our intnerals can handle up to 11-12psi, i figure i should build up the tranny first since its not really known what the max psi is that they can handle and i dont wanna be the first to find out. but this is all pending on the price my friend at the acura dealership can get me on a GSR.
dont know right terms to say this, but whats safest amount to boost while still allowing for shift at full throttle or wutever, like lets say i wass boostin 10 lbs, cud i just keep my foot on the gass all the way the whole time without blowing something? and wut about like...11 lbs 12 lbs haha i dunno, just wondering.
^^ I don't know about that. But I saw on the Level 10 website, which I don't know, there was a complete transmission you can buy for our cars for like 3 grand. It has all their parts. I think I want to get that... but I'm not sure.. tell me what you guys think.
im going to order ma sf turbo soon. but you need to build up your tranny.
so im buying levelten's Torque Converter and there upgrade kit
the upgrade kit is 400 and there TC is 500 and that is the same thing as there prebuilt auto tranny they said. i called them yesterday to chex it out. the TC you send in and they do it and the kit you have to do your self. they also said something about shaving off a second or something off your 1/4th time with both thows mods but i will belive that when i see it. but they have been really helpfull so im going with them, they also got a bunch of other cool stuff for the auto tranny
Buuuuutttt, that brand new auto tranmission on the website for lvl 10 looks awfully tempting. I mean that things brand new. all new parts. It has to be 100 times better than just ordering some add on parts for your alreayd used and messed up auto transmission. Theres on one thing I'm worried about. I dont want the car to slip or F up when I turbo it. The point of this thread is to see who has what and how their auto holds up while boosted, under cruising throttle and wide open.
um the kit is the same thing as there 3 grand auto tranny so 400 bucks or 3 grand... and with the kit if any parts that are not being changed are used/dmged you can just replace it your self. your making something harder then what it is.
also it says on there website what there built trannys can handle something like 3 times the hp/T then just the normal stock tranny
and if your looking for stories about how they hold up just look. one person a while back said his tranny went at only 4 psi in one days use. and i have known people around me to blow there trannys with only 5psi.
while somone else says they are running 9psi with no problems so far.
so your looking at both good and bad stories so far i have only seen 2 good stories from people that have not done any thing to there a/t the rest are all bad.
i think if you dont beat the crap out of your a/t you'll be fine. Im piecing my turbokit together and im going to get the overhaul kit and stuff eventually, maybe a month or two after the turbo. I know a guy with no intercooler on an auto running 5psi who is hitting 14.7-15.1 pretty solid...its a 94 civic. Hes had it turbo'ed for over a year with no tranny upgrades except the cooler
shhiiiitttt, $3k for a "bulletproof" tranny, no spank you, this aint a 1000hp supra we are talking about here, most of you wont even see the 300whp mark. get a overhaul kit and torque converter and call it a day.
the overhaul kit looks like a rebuild with stronger parts and supposedly shifts better too, so add that with a T/C and i think it would shave 1 second off your 1/4 mile time (assuming it does what they say it does) and 1 second dont sound like a lot but in racing that a few cars lengths.
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