Passed the roadtrip test...
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Passed the roadtrip test...
Sure what the hell, lets take the boosted car to the US Grand Prix. 1800 miles round trip, IT SURVIVED! Not only did it survive it kicked some serious ***. Averaged over 37 MPG (except in the mountains), puttered along effortlessly even with 3 fat asses in the car, the trunk full of crap AND the A/C blasting.
Blew through the mountains without much fanfare. Its actually amazing to see this car go up a 6 or 7% hill, IN 5th, and still have enough power to accelerate.
The only major problem was climbing mountains with the cruise control on. It wanted to push 3-4 psi in closed loop, and I wouldn't let it.
Only got the normal ensemble of CELs... the famous e-manage idle misfire w/ associated oil pressure flutter and the system too rich code from the injector correction. I'm beginning to hate that ****ing blue box. Its the only thing that doesn't work right. Other than that, I seem to have done it right. No problems with oil or water temps, boosted and held it, the transmission held, and the motor still sounds strong as ever.... boost done right has its rewards boys and girls... don't cheap out.
Note to everyone... don't roadtrip with an SRT-4. They need gas every 275 miles and they're loud as hell... meaning everyone wants to get into your car, which means your car goes slower.
Blew through the mountains without much fanfare. Its actually amazing to see this car go up a 6 or 7% hill, IN 5th, and still have enough power to accelerate.
The only major problem was climbing mountains with the cruise control on. It wanted to push 3-4 psi in closed loop, and I wouldn't let it.
Only got the normal ensemble of CELs... the famous e-manage idle misfire w/ associated oil pressure flutter and the system too rich code from the injector correction. I'm beginning to hate that ****ing blue box. Its the only thing that doesn't work right. Other than that, I seem to have done it right. No problems with oil or water temps, boosted and held it, the transmission held, and the motor still sounds strong as ever.... boost done right has its rewards boys and girls... don't cheap out.
Note to everyone... don't roadtrip with an SRT-4. They need gas every 275 miles and they're loud as hell... meaning everyone wants to get into your car, which means your car goes slower.
Last edited by Boilermaker1; Jul 5, 2006 at 09:29 PM.
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Rep Power: 811 wow nice. looks like a new ems is on your list. what about that other system dezod is selling? ha i remember when we had 3 people and a car packed with heavy crap moving out here from nevada. it sucked in the mountains. we had to stay in the right lane going 35mph cause it seriously would not climb. it took sitting at 4k rpms just to maintain speed. slow pos.
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Rep Power: 331 blue box POS. worthless. glad your car survived to live another day. does everyone using the emanage shoot CEL codes once a week? or is that just me and boiler?
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Originally Posted by varner88
thats awesome.. boiler i happen to be building my own kit would you have any suggestions or anything besides reading the turbo faq's?
Pick your features as you see necessary, and definitely don't skimp on the turbo itself.
I found lots of deals and bargains along the way, but definitely also shelled out a fair bit of cash on the stuff that matters.
There's nothing wrong with the HKS Mani (other than it makes getting the turbo in the car a PITA), its actually one of the nicer cast ones I've seen, its radiused inside and quite stout, for $232... a steal.
You don't need a $200 BOV. Thats an expensive noise maker. $35 does the trick, OEM Porsche, it opens and closes, and stays shut, thats all it needs to do and thats more than some of those expensive ones can say.
Get rid of the PCV valve and route the line to a catch can. I'm trying to see if there exists a PCV off a turbo car that will work with this one, but you definitely don't want that valve shut with the engine under pressure.
Spend money on the turbo, fab work and tuning... thats the stuff you need done right.
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I stopped thinking about reliability issues long time ago. 70000kms now and 15000 of them boosted. It had never let me down.
Any minute I'd take my car around the Globe if could.
God bless Honda.
Again, any pics of Grand Prix?
I stopped thinking about reliability issues long time ago. 70000kms now and 15000 of them boosted. It had never let me down.
Any minute I'd take my car around the Globe if could.
God bless Honda.
Again, any pics of Grand Prix?
Last edited by 03-Acura-1.7-EL; Jul 6, 2006 at 08:54 AM.
Originally Posted by skipbarber
blue box POS. worthless. glad your car survived to live another day. does everyone using the emanage shoot CEL codes once a week? or is that just me and boiler?
**** I have Hondata. Boiler glad to here that everything is doing Great.
Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
Buy the good ****.
Pick your features as you see necessary, and definitely don't skimp on the turbo itself.
I found lots of deals and bargains along the way, but definitely also shelled out a fair bit of cash on the stuff that matters.
There's nothing wrong with the HKS Mani (other than it makes getting the turbo in the car a PITA), its actually one of the nicer cast ones I've seen, its radiused inside and quite stout, for $232... a steal.
You don't need a $200 BOV. Thats an expensive noise maker. $35 does the trick, OEM Porsche, it opens and closes, and stays shut, thats all it needs to do and thats more than some of those expensive ones can say.
Get rid of the PCV valve and route the line to a catch can. I'm trying to see if there exists a PCV off a turbo car that will work with this one, but you definitely don't want that valve shut with the engine under pressure.
Spend money on the turbo, fab work and tuning... thats the stuff you need done right.
Pick your features as you see necessary, and definitely don't skimp on the turbo itself.
I found lots of deals and bargains along the way, but definitely also shelled out a fair bit of cash on the stuff that matters.
There's nothing wrong with the HKS Mani (other than it makes getting the turbo in the car a PITA), its actually one of the nicer cast ones I've seen, its radiused inside and quite stout, for $232... a steal.
You don't need a $200 BOV. Thats an expensive noise maker. $35 does the trick, OEM Porsche, it opens and closes, and stays shut, thats all it needs to do and thats more than some of those expensive ones can say.
Get rid of the PCV valve and route the line to a catch can. I'm trying to see if there exists a PCV off a turbo car that will work with this one, but you definitely don't want that valve shut with the engine under pressure.
Spend money on the turbo, fab work and tuning... thats the stuff you need done right.
Congarts in making it back in one piece, that' saids a lot about the build.
I dig that KMS mani too is a good and unexpensive alternarative.
The good think about log manifolds is that it cuts the turbo lag time by 50%
in the short end.
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