ok ihave a 98 civic hx it used to be my daily driver but have a new car for that now. anyway i want to turbo my d but a fewpeople have told me that i can not turbo my d16y5 and that if i did that i would not be able to tune it is that true? i know that i have the vtec-e which is the not so commen vtec so does that have anything to do with it? i have been to many shops around hereand no one seems to know anything about this engine so if anyone can help i would appreciate it

 

Blah, get rid of that engine pronto, it's going to make all sorts of problems and is easily one of the weakest D motors.

 

yeah i have been told that. so if i still wanted to have a d and turbo it would the y8 work or is it still completely different?
or would i just be better off doing a complete engine swap?

 

IMO id swap in a D16z6 w/ a 96-00 EX manual tranny and build and turbo that.

 

I have an HX aswell. The y5 is not the weakest motor at all, it's just the lack of aftermarket parts and lack of experience have dealing with this motor. I would swap out the y5 tranny though and put an ex one in there. People that have turboed the y5 motor seemed to have more tq then hp.

If you're interested in the y5 still, take a look at this thread.

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread...454&page=1

I have more threads saved as well, so if you want more info on the y5 just pm me.

 

dont turbo for a while a swap the motor b?

 

will the y8 tranny bolt up to the y5 ? or are the blocks the same just with a different head ?

 

wow thanks for that info on that thread. it pretty much answered everything ineeded to know about what i amplanning to do