What kind of horsepower can I expect to get out of turboing my stock 99 ex.

 

Answers will be many and various on this, but I'd say you could run 200whp (maybe a bit more) safely on stock internals with a bitchin' tune.

 

I am new to the tuner scene. What would be a good turbo to start off with and still be able to use the car as a daily driver? Would a super charger be a good option? I do like the sound of turbo's better.

 

It really depends on what you want. If you just want to keep the car as a solid daily driver with some more kick, you won't need anything serious. As for the supercharger vs. turbo question, it has been discussed incessantly around here, so I would search for some posts on it.

However, I'll summarize briefly:

If you want low-end grunt and pull from idle with a more tame, linear power curve, it's going to be a supercharger.

If you want more exponential gains coming higher up, it's going to be a turbo.

I'm not going to lie: I definitely favor turbos. Turbo-wise, you'd probably want to stick with something small to keep the spool time as low as possible. A DSM T-25 is a popular choice for mild Honda boost applications, since it spools ridiculously low (sub-3,000 rpm) and doesn't put out a lot of boost (good for daily-driver applications without a whole lot of extra parts, tuning, etc). However, it tends to start to run out of breath around 6,500 rpm. A DSM 14B is slightly larger, but can provide significantly more boost and has more breathing room. Nissan T-28's and GT-28's are harder to adapt to Honda applications (since they're primarily designed for longitudinal engine layouts) but when fitted, they make excellent gains and still spool below 3,500 rpm.

That's all I feel like writing right now... it's pretty late and I need to sleep. But I hope this gives you a few options to explore, and I'm sure there'll be plenty of other replies on this tomorrow.

 

check out the greddy kits, they are perfect for beginners who have no experiece with turbos. And they come with EVERYTHING YOU need and instructions/ step by step also i think...

 

Yeah I was checking those out and that seems to be the case. Also, coming from a more muscle car backround, I kind of like the edelbrock turbo's, has anyone tried one of those?

 

edelbrocks are really nice and have done there homework on there turbo kits, if you got the money i would get the edelbrock, but if money is tigher than i would go with the greddy kit.. Edelbrock will make a little bit more power than the greddy.... If you pay more than you are gonna get more hp with a kit that is..