That's interesting looking at Erik's picture, we both use RevHard manifolds, my manifold puts the turbo on a slight angle, so I only had to grind the gusset, not the part with the engine stamping. Looking at Erik's pic, his turbo is straight, square to the block.

 

My stock clutch started giving out after about 5K miles on boost. I'm surprised it lasted that long. I went with a CM stage 3 and have had it for about 2 years now with dozens of full out drag launches at the strip, there is no fade whatsoever.

Compared to a small turbo, the T3/T4 hybrid has huge lag, but you get used to it. I agree with Erik, you don't want instant boost with a front drive car, you will never get traction.

 

Erik,

I noticed that you took off your right fan on the radiator to fit the turbo manifold/ wastegate and dump tube...is this pretty common or was it a preference thing? I never notice my fans turning on anyway so I'm wondering if I take the other fan off will I have any cooling issues...am I the only one whose fans never turn on?? I do have a Mugen thermostat, so would that effect it??

 

I had too. I have a smaller fan on the other side that we used in place of the big one. (While we are on the fan issue how much should I sell my stock fan for, I want to set a reserve on eBay for it...sorry to post jack) I was being a ass in Dallas one day trying to get rid of some gas to get the car into a show and I was running it kind of hard in the head. It did start to over heat on me but I think any cooling system would have over heated. I'm going to replace the whole radiator with a smaller more efficient one. (So I can get a intake filter without having a problem clearing the fan)

 

Its hard to say how much for the fan...ive seen stock fans on ebay anywhere from $1.99 no reserve to over $100, so I guess it's how much youre willing to let it go for. Thanks for the info on the block shaving though, its been most informative.

Brandon

 

Thanks for the info. I try to keep it above 6k rpms when I'm racing anyway, just have to be pretty quick on that gear shift Do you still feel/hear the VTEC engage with a turbo by the way, or does it just scream all the way?

Jan - how would you rate the stage 3 clutch for general driveability? I need the car to be usable in traffic as well as on the open road/track.

Thanks
Angela

 

Do you still feel/hear the VTEC engage with a turbo by the way, or does it just scream all the way? ----Author Message
itr_angela

Yeah, thats what I'm wondering. I dont feel my vtec engage anymore since I installed in my turbo. Anyone knotice anything?

 

http://www.itrca.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2525

listen to some of my sound clips, you should be able to distinguish the transition to vtec, the recordings aren't that good, but when I'm in the car I can very clearly hear the induction note and exhaust note go extremely deep when the vtec switchover happens. The turbo definitely will quiet it down though