I was just wondering . . . When people do Engine swaps on their cars and they decide to get a turbo or supercharger do they usually just buy a kit that was designed for that motor and mod the kit so that it'll fit in their engine bay or do they just custom build a turbo since custom modifcations are need anyway. For example if a CL with an H22A wanted forced induction would it be smarter to buy a kit from a company (greddy, Jackson racing) or is it smarter to custom build a kit.

 

All depends. Only thing when you buy a kit all the R&D has been done and the gains have been proven. You can custom build a kit and make it better, but you have to do all the R&D dyno, fuel/ignition tuning ect.

 

werd

 

you have to do that regardless if its a kit or not....the main difference is that you can get the exact parts you want when put your own kit together.....as far as buying a kit for a h22 cl....most places make kits for an accord/cl with the h22... the engine bay for an accord/cl is the same so you could just order a kit for a lude and youll have no problem

 

Some kits give proven gains and expected results and include parts to upgrade fuel/igniton. As far as the fuel/ignition tuning goes, yes that would need to be done to utilize the maxium amount of gain from the forced induction. Usually when you buy kits there is an baseline amount of gain that the manufacturer claims with the kit. With a piced together kit, you usually experiment with what kainda gains you get from different parts.

 

fmax is the most complete turbo kit out there.