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I know we've visited this multiple times but again a few people have been swaping the D16 intake manifold to our D17 with minor modification. I was lurking around other forums and found a complete D16 supercharger kit. Question goes out to the people that are running the D16 intake manifolds. would it work on the same principal with this supercharger? Or would the pullies not even line up?

 
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the strut tower is in the way. it aint gonna happen.

 
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watd u mean the strut tower..

 
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the tower that houses the front struts....

 
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i see you're new here....and this one has actually been asked and answered several times over. as stated, the pulley housing is too long. the strut tower is right where that pully would be, so i would take some serious structural changes underhood to even get that thing to fit. I have oft-wondered about the centrifugal 'charger though. but again you run into clearance and space issues into where you'd be able to put it. they didn't leave much room under the hoods of our vics for anything other than stock

 
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Ummm not ot mention it sits the wrong way.. but anyways.

 
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^^For a K20 it does......Belts are on Driver's side of the D series. Has it been that long since you've had a puny D17?

 
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^^lol

yea i know it doesnt fit and wont work, im not that new.. i just didnt get what he meant by strut tower, i didnt think that pulley was that long to hit the strut tower.. but now that i think about it and look at sum pics of my engine bay.. yea.. ur right lol. oh well.. s/c on the D are a lost cause..

 
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umm.. that would be something... but o well.. i'd like to see a s/c d17.. but keep updated.. do it!

 
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if there was one i would buy it. nobody with the ability to mass produce it has even considered it.

 
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Not long enough! LOL... i forget they sit in opposing directions.

 
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i think the vortech supercharger might just work with some mods cuz as far as i know it doesnt actually sit on the intake manifold. ITs a centrifugal one rite. I think thats wut ur talkin about. It would work kinda like on a scion tc you would make a mount so it could sit in line with the belt then make an extension to the belt off the compressor and run ic piping. it mite work. hopefully that makes sense to some of you.

 
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try it n tell us how it goes... i dont think anybody cares... im not syaing that in a bad rude way, sorry if it came out that way but literally..

not alot of people care about the d17..at all.. maybe ina few more years.

 
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lol look how small that thing is... it looks like a toy

 
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well.. they sure do a lot of work.. and ive seen some SC'd d16s beat up some v8s

 
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good luck getting that to fit in there. I was looking into it a while ago with my buddies shop. IF it were to be done, it would have to be like the SI unit, in which you actually mount the S/C on the passenger side, and run a shaft across with a pully on the the other side running to an extended belt. Even then...there are sooo many clearance issues. The way we were going to set it up, I would have had to lose my power steering and mount the pulley where the p/s pump used to be, but to me it just wasnt worth it for my daily driver. Just stick to turbo. After all the costs were said and done with my s/c, it ended up being almost the same price as the Dezod kit, which is hands down the best way to make power with our motors.

 
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A procharger would be a sweet idea. All you'd really need is a custom belt and a mounting adapter plate to mount it in place of the a/c compressor or ps pump...

 
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if you do a search i was working on a prototype with a local shop.. it was an adapter plate that bolts on to a d16 s/c.. hmm.. i wonder if anyone can still find it.. its been a few years

 
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haha.. jus found it..

https://www.civicforums.com/forums/7...-fittings.html

 
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My Idea was to just use the Scion S/C, and use an EPS rack from the EP3 and mount the pulley in its place. I thought about this a while ago but I haven't really pulled the funds together...unfortunately. I think it'd be a sweet idea.

 
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i forgot what a d17 looks like anymore.. lol

 
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this is why i went onto 2 toyota's as project cars...i got an ae82 fx16 with a redtop 4AGE and my suspension is finally in...soon it will be 4AGZE swaped (supercharged) and i might twin charge it (super/turbo)

my other one is an ae86 hatchback gonna be swapped with a 20v blacktop 4age...the d17 is just too hard and expensive to keep modding...even the civic itself...my ae82 with about $1200 its already engine swapped, converted to manual from auto, new springs and shocks and a stereo system