Hey just in the future if i would wanna put a turbo in my 2000 tl-p would this one be good enough?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/T3-T4...Q5fAccessories

 

what

 

 

well not so hard to understand? i was asking for advice what you think about on that turbo?

 

what

jsut buy it.

and go get all that other stuff fabbed.

 

what do you mean by fabbed lol sorry just asking

 

he probably means that the turbo it self is just 1 part, but you're gonna need all the supporting parts fabricated, since there are no kits for our cars.

 

you still need a to get yourself the piping since most of those piping you'll have to scrap or cut and reweld to make the specific bends for you.. then you'd need to get yourself a downpipe made and i'd suggest buying some headers so you can use their manifold.. then pair the downpipe to that.. then battery relocation kit... and then some cutting tools so you can fit the pipings for that intercooler.

 

its nothing you can't do.. its just are you willing to use the money and the time to do it right once and not several times..

 

that piping is not gonna be a direct fit. you are going to have to fit things together just right to get them to work. you also might want to upgrade some of the parts of the kit. just slowly piece together a kit of good products and then get the custom piping done.

 

lots of cutting in the pipes, bumper and other places on the car. along with that u still need a turbo manifold with that. which will run u more than that kit.

 

I wonder if he noticed that shipping is 299.99....haha

All the best to ya with that project if you choose to proceed with it.

 

The ebay ad is written in graffiti... very professional.
Are you the guy that was looking for turbos off craigslist?
You can't really go cheap when it comes to FI.
Do it right, or it'll bite you in the ass, but if you must

http://xs-power.com/acura-honda-turbokits-16.htm

 

500 bucks is maybe 1/5'th of what your gonna spend....

theres no such thing as a new $500 effective bolt on turbo system.

 

That's not a complete kit. Still need all the electronics, exhaust. And a good tune. Xs is know for the welds on the headers cracking. So u would need to strip the chrome off and reweld them than either chrome them or paint them

 

so like i said....

 

That is for the 6spds. The auto trans gets in the way of the pipes

 

its worse than that, that metal is paper thin

 

In other words you guys are saying that turbo in the TL is generally a bad idea?

 

NO. buying that kit is a bad idea.

 

There are no "bolt-on kits" available for the TL so you should piece everything together yourself if you want a decent kit.

 

OP wanted something cheap... I gave him what he wanted.
Get the CTSC like the rest of us, it's pretty good. Throw away that Icebox, make ur own intake (or buy aem/injen) and it sounds quite intimidating.

 

No thank you on the supercharger

 

^^ agreed

turbo > SC

 

Well the turbo does give more power than the s/c, but it's personal opinion. When it comes to stop and go traffic, I prefer a s/c. If im on an interstate, I'd like a turbo. It's really up to the OP, low end power or high end.

It looked like the OP wanted a kit for his car and ct is the only company that makes a kit for our TLs.

 

^x3. Rather have it blow than squeal

 

so even if i had a 6 speed still no point for a turbo?

 

their is a point. just dont go cheap on parts. it can really bite u in the ass in the long wrong.

 

has anyone ever tried that turbo setup on a tl? ive had a set of thier headers on my cl and tl for a combined 5 years and about 70k miles and no problems. if i had $600 laying around id try it out. maybee some of you "ballers" can give it a try. <-- didnt mean for that to sound sarcastic. im being serious

 

OK I guess I will chime in. I own a turbocharged civic that I designed myself (the setup is not a kit, rather parts that I chose for certain purposes).

DON"T cheap out when you look into forced induction. Most of the cheap kits will just give you problems, and will force you to rebuy parts becuase the ones they gave you fail. Most are made by xspower, ssautochrome, etc. Basically its the same company changing names to keep running away from a terrible product (don't beleive here is a quick google search http://www.google.com/search?source=...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=). Every once in a while you hear about one of the setups lasting a while, but then there are 10 others where the compressor housing splits in half or the manifold break leaving your turbo hanging from the oil lines. If this is your cup of tea, by all means.

If you are serious about wanting to boost then message me. I'm no professional but I have done alot of research on boosting. It's going to be pricey though.

 

i was gonna turbo my tl-s with my custom stuff, not no ebay shit. but then i bought my cl-s6. so boost is going on that

 

Yeah, I think you should still TC the TL and then you can make me the same kit Lol

You know you want to

 

the demand out their isnt enought that ppl will buy kits, ive only seen 2 ppl post that they want to turbo their tl. and my stuff is going into the cl, which i will have to remover the heater, and heater pipes that go into the cab. my manifold gets in the way

 

Yeah no heater, i'll pass.

Q's can you run a intercooler with the CT SC?

 

down here.. having no heater would just be a weight reduction.. dont even see why they put them on the cars they sell here.. i ride with the windows down in the "winter"..

 

u can run a fmi with a sc. just no kit out their is space is limited for pipes. i was surprised that my cl had more free space behind the bumper support than my tl did. + for me

 

Lol I know what you mean, up here in Nor Cal its dark and still 95 outside but we also dip down to the high 40's so i'll keep my heater Lol

We go from 114 summers to 40 winters, its BS!

 

im taking out the heater and ac accessories. just more weight and power loss

 

Is that a good idea? will the HP gains be woth the time and money?


Well the CL-S front end has alittle more of a point to it and the TL-S is alittle rounder but not by much. When it comes to mod'n a car tho an extra few inch's of space can go along way

 

it will lower the air inlet temp which will add some more power.