Sounds good. But if you're new to this I wouldn't go tearing into the engine just yet. You should be able to make a satisfiable amount of power with stock internals.

 

You always risk blowing your engine.

But if you do the install properly, pick quality parts (for example, a crappy wastegate could cause boost creep or even a bad boost spike), make sure your engine is healthy, pick a realistic power goal for stock internals on your particular engine, and get a good tune, you greatly reduce that risk and will probably be fine.

 

dude...
we have stickied FAQs on this stuff

https://www.hondacivicforum.com/foru...ad.php?t=68360
https://www.hondacivicforum.com/foru...ad.php?t=13609


http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbob...nter/faqs.html


To pick a power goal, you have to research to find out how much stock internals will handle. You can easily make 200 WHP safely on a healthy D16Y8 (or other D-series VTEC engine, or mini-me swap D-series). On a non-VTEC I would expect it to handle almost, if not, 200 WHP. The reason for the lower number is because since it has less power before turboing than the D16Y8 does, you have to turn up the boost higher to obtain the same power goal as a D16Y8 would on less boost with the same turbo. This additional pressure puts additional stress on the engine.

 

eh to convert all you need is a conversion harness and the proper ECU. This is illegal just like everywhere else, but since you live in CA they actually enforce this stuff.

To legally do it you'd have to have CARB approved parts and use a piggyback unit. If you want to do this legally, look into the Edelbrock and GReddy kits. If you can find a shady shop to pass emissions for you every year and you're not worried about CHP pulling you over and making you get the car ref'd and/or giving you citations, use whatever (quality) parts you want.

 

your call. Since they are OEM parts, just from another car, you may be able to use them legally. Not sure though.