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Old Feb 20, 2002
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Custom Turbo

I was reading in a earlier fourm that the prototype HKS Turbo kit for our cars has been cancelled!!??? True?? Anways wondering how much a custom would cost.... latah
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where did you hear that?
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Roger 9356 said



<< ! hate to hae to be the bearer of bad news but yes all those turnos will work on our civic BUT(thats a big BUT) you need to be able to fabricate a whole custom turbo cause the just seling the turb not a kit . oh and by the way i did talk to HKS and that at the moment have no intentions of finishng the testing or put the turbo, displayed in the honda tuning magazine , on sale >>

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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Doing a custom turbo is not a problem....everybody makes it sound so hard because there is not a kit. Find a turbo, build some pipes, and adjust the fuel.

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the hardest part of a custom turbo is fabricating an exhaust manifold. getting a turbo is secondary to that
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