ITR41,
I may sound like a RevHard salesman, but go with one of their kits, the components are first class and track proven. If you think you can come up with the right turbo combination for your car on your own, good luck!
If anything, at least call Turbonetics to set you up with a turbo that is efficient in the range that you want to operate in. Unfortunately, they do not sell direct. I've been down the road you're trying to travel, and did some very in depth research on piecing together everything I needed to turbocharge my ITR, there is no money to be saved building your own kit.
Lisa Kubo and Jotech + countless others use RevHard kits on their cars.
I would be more than happy to give you more info on my own turbo install, if you need it.

 

Compression and turbo spooling have absolutely nothing to do with each other, I challenge you to prove otherwise.

 

Jan, I'm curious why you didn't go with the Drag Gen 3 kit? Is there some sort of drawback to that kit or did you not feel that kit had the ability to get the most out of the R?

(Not that it matters much to me as I won't be turbocharging *any* FWD car. Just curious :P )

 

Kabob, someone needs to throw you on the grill.
no, seriously, why not turbo a fwd car, it really is very satisfying schooling rwd cars and many awd cars as well, but if you aren't into that oh well.
As to the Drag kit, back in spring of 2000, they didn't make a kit for a 2000 Type R. However, RevHard stepped up to the plate. As a matter of fact after Myles Bautista told me he has made 360whp at 10 Psi on a Type R, I was sold.

 

Well Im new to this site and I dont even have a type R. But I have this to say, I have a GSR and I droped my compresion to 9:1, I wish now that I didn't, B/C with proper tuning I could have keep my stock compresion. But I want to run as much bost as possible. I see boosting a type R pointless, why spend all that money on a great N/A car, and then boost it. I mean that is the whole reason the type R was built, great all motor performance out of a 4 banger. If you want to boost something save your money and buy late model GSR and use the money on your turbo and a new suspention. I got my GSR for $6000. I love boost and I love the Type R, but they do not belong together. If you ever wanted to sell it, you would be stuck. But thats just my 2 cents. I know I cant spell.

12.4 @ 116mph drag radials (G-force)

 

When I ordered my 2000 ITR, I was all about all-motor. But then something happened, I got my ass handed to me by a Camaro. The next day, I ordered the Turbo kit. To get the same power all-motor, the money spent would have been the same, or more. As far as selling the car, I can unbolt all the hardware and return it to stock in 2 days. And I can use the kit on any B series. If I had gone crazy with all motor mods, there is no returning to stock, you can't unport the head.

 

Lot's of people have boosted Type-R's, but if I knew that I was going to boost when I bought the car I would have gotten a GSR. With the money you save you can make up the difference in power and handling. Check out the Forced Induction forum at Honda-Tech.com. Use the search function. You can find out anything there. Let us know how it turns out.

 

Well as it turns out, I've had the car turboed for almost 2 years, with extensive track use, no issues.

 

Jan, I've read a lot of your posts. I know your car turned out great. My advice was to YellowITR#1474.

 

Lots of talk has been going here about turbo and whatnot, but how are these cars being run? Most people I talk to run their R's for auto-x, etc.. I guess for maybe street use turbo is ok, but I'm yet to see a turbo R run auto-x.