got another quick question .. i heard that if u run a intercooler w/ no bov that it was a very bad thing?? any truth to that?. is it not good to run an intercooler w/ out a bov.. or would it been fine?.. now i know that its bad to to have a bov period but i'm askin' intercooler w/ not bov.. for say a couple of weeks??

taylor

 

intercooler and bov are two separate functioning parts in teh turbo system.
a blow off valve or a bypass valve is there to prevent turbo damage caused by forced air hitting a closed throttle body, and bouncing back to reverse trhe spin of the turbo...at best it saves you from damage at worst it helps driveability.

 

Neither of those qualify as a "light weight civic" in my book.......then again my car weighed 1819 from the factory

Best idea yet...........oh FYI rex = CRX for the Honda world, WRX for the subaru world, and RX-7 in the mazda world..........but he prolly meant the '04 WRX STI


Myself, I think i'd buy a '03 Cobra. Can't beat near 375whp from the factory...

 

thanks

 

yes, but u have no "looks appeal"

 

Eh, I know my CRX is ugly........but don't group them all into to that catagory. I like the looks of a clean CRX more than I do a bubble car 92-95 hatch. Then again i'm biased, i've got 2 crx's.

But to each his own.

Besides, i've got a turbo AWD DSM that looks just fine.

 

j/k ive seen some pretti clean crx's. they gotta be simple though

 

I think that before you go off and drop 10 grand on a "project" (will you be doing the work on this thing?) you should figure out how all this stuff works.

 

i do know how all this stuff works.. in regards to my question i asked ealier which obvisouly you couldn't answer.. i called a shop.. here is the answer i was lookin' for: boost goes from turbo to intake manifold and with no bov it goes back down from the intake manifold in to the turbo.. cause there is no bov.. stick on an intercooler then you have hot air going out the turbo through the intercooler and then you have cold air going into the intake manifold.. when you left off the gas now instead of hot air going back into the hot turbo.. you have cold air going into the hot turbo.. which will shock it, which is bad!!

taylor

 

Not a wise idea to pick a fight with a mod. And besides the answer the shop gave you is half-assed and 1/2 right anyways. The hot/cold air isn't gonna do **** to a turbo. Consider this, the turbo is hot already, it's connected to the exhuast manifold remember? The turbo sucks cold-air in the inlet, and spits it out the outlet. Now since the turbo it hot to begin with wouldn't sucking cold air into it "shock" it too? The answer is NO. What "shocks" it is the pressure backwash, like I said before. The reason the shop gave you such a half-assed answer is one of 2 reasons.

A: They are dumbasses

B: You are the dumbass and they actually know what they're talking about. Though they didn't think you could wrap your brain around the concept of fluid dynamics, so they gave you the "lolly pop to shut you up" answer

In either case, don't be such an ass. The seperate thread you started that 1stgenCRX'r and I replied to you on gave you all the CORRECT info.