Nitrous, Super Chargers, & Turbos - '86 honda civic 25R....can it handle turb

ok this is what i want to know before i make any costly mistakes....can my civic be turb'd, 86 civic 25R....picture as follows too with engine bay...it was green when i brought it...also battery was getting replaced same as some leads for clarification

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obviously standard at the moment hehe.....but waiting to see if it is worthwhile turb'ing it before replacing standard parts with aftermarket...or replacing whole engine maybe

You should try this paintjob. Sbowers is in the process of doing it and it looks great.

http://www.hondacivicforum.com/m_200328/tm.htm

As far as the turbo, im not an expert but it seems the be the general responce that if you have a healthy engine without leaks or anything then go for it. Or if it has crasy high miles, you could look into a similar motor with less miles or a b series or something. Just depends on your budget.

thanks man...i think i will try and see what the results are on the engine and soforth and then decide if its better to get new block or upgrade standard parts.

and thinks for the link.it looks nice. i think im going a better red or blue....

A turbo on a carburated engine....a nightmare

yeah dont turbo that motor unless you are 100% sure of what you are doing... drop in like a d16z6 which is mpfi and obd-1 which you can tune really easily and then slap the turbo kit on and tune it and you are on your way...

yeah, carbs are a pain to turbo and get to run correctly. hks and mugen both made turbo kits for that generation of civic, but they were fuel injected models only. so fuel injection is the best way to run. hasport makes a swap kit to drop a b series in, so get a b18b and put dual webers on it and build it to be a NA screamer, then you would have power and no wiring nightmare

there are a current number of engines available b18, b20, d15, b16 all which come with drive train.

thanks for all the help :)

ORIGINAL: Kolhoznik

A turbo on a carburated engine....a nightmare


WHAT??????????

Noway man

http://www.bankspower.com/Twin-Turbo-images/TwinTurbo-offsideLeft-lg.jpg

i hate chrome detailed motors...

It'd be rare as **** if you did the project, but like said above, it'd be a pain in the ass...

Ummm....yeah....I'd say good luck finding someone to tune it...

ORIGINAL: Marty


ORIGINAL: Kolhoznik

A turbo on a carburated engine....a nightmare


WHAT??????????

Noway man

http://www.bankspower.com/Twin-Turbo-images/TwinTurbo-offsideLeft-lg.jpg

not all carbs are created equal, look to the vw guys for some delortos, they are very easy to turbo and tune

ORIGINAL: Kolhoznik

Ummm....yeah....I'd say good luck finding someone to tune it...



Any and I repeat any tuner that is worth a crap does not lock themselves down to only tuning EFI cars. The fastest cars in the world are carb'd.

ORIGINAL: Marty


ORIGINAL: Kolhoznik

Ummm....yeah....I'd say good luck finding someone to tune it...



Any and I repeat any tuner that is worth a crap does not lock themselves down to only tuning EFI cars. The fastest cars in the world are carb'd.

amen

those cars will probably be limited to a certain altitude and will need to be retuned every time your altitude changes...IMO

man its almost worth it to build a carbie engine from scratch with turb just to be different.

ORIGINAL: Kolhoznik

those cars will probably be limited to a certain altitude and will need to be retuned every time your altitude changes...IMO


same applies to EFI engine's.

OK, I give up:-D








I'll just go back to the shop and work on the damned bumpers...

what sort of carbie should i look at buying

your gonna need a new jettable carb set up to turbo that thing. my recomendations would be to buy a blow through carb, adapt to your manifold and turbo from there. however i would never recomend someone to tune it that knows nothing about carb jetting. hit up your local drag strips and search for carb guys and learn from them. carbs are a pain to tune but boy would i love a set of side drafts on my teg