http://vitarapistons.com/boosting-a-stock-97-honda-accord-lx/ Suzuki Vitara Pistons for Your D-Series Honda Engine Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:20:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://vitarapistons.com/boosting-a-stock-97-honda-accord-lx/comment-page-1/#comment-2294 Vipassan Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:23:45 +0000 http://vitarapistons.com/boosting-a-stock-97-honda-accord-lx/#comment-2294 First and foremost, maybe you ought to consider the fact that people will rag on the idea of turbocharging a stock car, because it is, in fact, a stupid idea. Secondly, buying a turbo kit from eBay is one of the worst things you can do. It is NOT a full turbo kit. Take a look at the pictures of the intercooler piping. If they look like just straight pipes, with a few bends, guess what? They're universal, and will not fit your car. On to your questions. 1.Yes. It'll be a bad idea, however. 2. You need to lower the compression of the engine, upgrade your pistons, change your exhaust manifold, get a fuel controller, and a wide variety of other parts. 3. Too vague of a question. It vastly depends on what turbo you have, what cfm it flows, what other modifications you have, etc. It may produce no gains, or 100hp, and then explode. 4. See above. 5. Nope. But a rough idea is: Turbo, turbo manifold, pistons, rings, intercooler, intercooler piping, blowoff valve (non-atmospheric), fuel controller, larger fuel injectors, new headgasket for safe measure, new exhaust system. Etc. 6. Labor and tuning.....hard to say. If your car is not perfectly maintained, some gremlins will pop up, and will add to it. But somewhere in the neighborhood of a few thousand dollars should be a good guess. 7. Depends on where you live. Which you didn't supply. 8. About 4-5 psi, probably. For a gain of maybe 40 horsepower. You now need to run higher octane, too. 9. No. Not one bit. If you just bolt the turbo on, and that's it, it'll last maybe....at most 10,000 miles. 10. Don't buy one from eBay. It may be cheap now, but it won't last long, and you'll spend 2-3x as much, getting it fixed or replaced. And by the way, you're not "boosting" anything. You're turbocharging the car. First and foremost, maybe you ought to consider the fact that people will rag on the idea of turbocharging a stock car, because it is, in fact, a stupid idea.
Secondly, buying a turbo kit from eBay is one of the worst things you can do. It is NOT a full turbo kit. Take a look at the pictures of the intercooler piping. If they look like just straight pipes, with a few bends, guess what? They’re universal, and will not fit your car.
On to your questions.
1.Yes. It’ll be a bad idea, however.
2. You need to lower the compression of the engine, upgrade your pistons, change your exhaust manifold, get a fuel controller, and a wide variety of other parts.
3. Too vague of a question. It vastly depends on what turbo you have, what cfm it flows, what other modifications you have, etc. It may produce no gains, or 100hp, and then explode.
4. See above.
5. Nope. But a rough idea is: Turbo, turbo manifold, pistons, rings, intercooler, intercooler piping, blowoff valve (non-atmospheric), fuel controller, larger fuel injectors, new headgasket for safe measure, new exhaust system. Etc.
6. Labor and tuning…..hard to say. If your car is not perfectly maintained, some gremlins will pop up, and will add to it. But somewhere in the neighborhood of a few thousand dollars should be a good guess.
7. Depends on where you live. Which you didn’t supply.
8. About 4-5 psi, probably. For a gain of maybe 40 horsepower. You now need to run higher octane, too.
9. No. Not one bit. If you just bolt the turbo on, and that’s it, it’ll last maybe….at most 10,000 miles.
10. Don’t buy one from eBay. It may be cheap now, but it won’t last long, and you’ll spend 2-3x as much, getting it fixed or replaced.
And by the way, you’re not “boosting” anything. You’re turbocharging the car.

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