Originally Posted by ApAthY
So immediately everyone goes on the attack and says that the guy/girl is going to blow up their motor because they know nothing...and they obviously don't know much...
Now...the way I see it, if he/she doesn't know anything...chances are they won't be doing the install themselves and I don't think the person who installs it would put some ungodly amount of psi into an motor that he knows won't handle it...but maybe I'm just being naive...
The problem is, a lot of people who don't know what they are doing do have money for the parts and do want to install it themselves, even though they have no idea what they are doing. This causes problems, so we try to discourage them before they waste a lot of money.
Secondly, have you ever heard of a manual boost controller? It's a neat little device, it can be home made for about $20 or bought for under $120. It goes inline with the wastegate vacuum line, and cranking down the adjustment screw ups the boost. It's so simple, a baby could use it. What I'm trying to get at is that any idiot can force a Honda engine to run at 15psi, which will be an untuned 15psi, and the result is a very blown engine.
I've seen a guy on a dyno that had one of those cheap home made manual boost controllers on his Mazdaspeed Protege. It knocked all sorts, he could have lost his engine. :chuckles: