reliability?

[96B16civic]

I'm in the process of boosting my hatch (B16) and I've been told by the locals that boosting a non-turbo'd car is not a good way to go. I'm fully building my motor and not cheaping out on a turbo kit so I dont see how there will be any problems? I plan on running around 10 pounds of boost on the street and 15 on the track.
Thanks for your advice in advance!!!!

 

[baron340]

The biggest thing with reliability is a quality tune. If the parts you have are built to support whatever level of psi/hp you are running it will be perfectly fine as long as you have a solid tune.

 

[mosaic_hardflip]

The biggest thing with reliability is a quality tune. If the parts you have are built to support whatever level of psi/hp you are running it will be perfectly fine as long as you have a solid tune.

Nicely said....yes a tune is make or break any any build

 

[96B16civic]

Thanks guys. I was already planning on getting a good tune anyway. They could never give me a good answer on what went wrong all the time but they always said it "just doesnt work"

 

[psychotic_civic]

it doesnt work because idiots take a stock engine and try to boost 12psi on stock fuel system and internals and try to "tune" it with a s-afc in their driveway. then when the s**t blows up they come on here and piss and moan about it. get some 450cc DSM or 460cc rx7 injectors, walbro 255 fuel pump, and a hondata or even crome and take it to a respected tuner shop and have fun beatin the crap out of v8's for years to come.

 

[somejaykid]

The biggest thing with reliability is a quality tune. If the parts you have are built to support whatever level of psi/hp you are running it will be perfectly fine as long as you have a solid tune.

 

[96B16civic]

Thanks guys, I was beggining to regret starting a turbo build for a while. But now I'm confident in it again. I'm tuning with an apexi neo VAFC should that be okay after a good tune from a tuner?

 

[psychotic_civic]

should be fine but you wont get the best tune possible. i say go with crome, its cheaper than the apexi and gets way better results. there is even a link that has tons of crome basemaps to get you started, i just forgot what it was. maybe one of the other guys can help you out on that one

 

[xxsenceo89x]

dont cheap out on important s**t.
dont beat the s**t out of it everyday. try to stay out of boost when possible
check oil daily
get a good tuner to tune.

 

[ej2rey]

I've been told by the locals that boosting a non-turbo'd car is not a good way to go.

Whoever told you this is a f**ken morron and should even be touching nor driving a car! Can't believe sumone actually said that.

Anyways, reliability comes from having good quality parts and like the other guys said b4 me a good tune.

I recommend chrome aswell.

 

[TiiM iiS l3eAsT]

Whoever told you this is a f**ken morron and should even be touching nor driving a car! Can't believe sumone actually said that.

Anyways, reliability comes from having good quality parts and like the other guys said b4 me a good tune.

I recommend chrome aswell.

 

[Destroy]

The car should not even see the road until it gets tuned on the dyno.