turbo time

Tidied a few things up on the car tonight.

Installed the grommet from the SO2 onto the wire leading into the cabin for the EGT gauge. At 6am when we finished the install of the DP, I just didn't have the consciousness to even think about it. Now that is sealed off properly and should keep water out.

A few of the couplers on the charge pipes weren't sitting the way I liked. So I loosened, adjusted and re-tightened them to make sure they would seal well. While I was in there, I decided to wrap the charge pipe leading to the throttle body with the same heat resistant wrap we used on the teg. As I have time, I'll probably go through and wrap several more of the pipes.

Ugh, going to bed at 6am FTL. Getting my new 3" dp and wideband/EGT gauges installed FTW.

It was a long arduous process which had a few moments of near defeat. We prevailed though, saved by the honda parts drawer once again... we also had to make a couple of our own bolts by cutting the long bolts from the Greddy downpipe.

It's laughable how tiny the stock exhaust is in comparison to the downpipe. Fail.

Matching boost and wideband gauges are sechsy. The EGT is sitting in the center console until we devise a mounting solution for it.

Got my new down pipe for the Civic today. Also in the package, a Greddy EGT gauge. Hoping to install it tomorrow.

It arrived in great shape, beautiful welds, excellent quality. That said, I love shiny exhaust parts, so I spent some time tonight polishing it up...

Fed up with not being able to tune the fuel on the teg, we got a wideband for it. Wired it directly into the S300 so we can datalog it.

Got the boost gauge installed on the Civic as well. I re-routed all of the vacuum connections while I was in there. Everything feeds off the brake booster line now.

I got bored and decided to see if I could quiet down the BOV on the Si. I drilled 2 holes in the side of it opposing the main opening, cut off the bell opening and attached a piece of radiator hose to the end to dampen the sound. It actually made a considerable difference in decreasing the volume. I also get a bit of a flutter from it now on low boost shifts.

I'm taking the fuel system seriously now. Received my new 1000cc injectors, pnp clips, and walbro fuel pump. I also have a FPR crushing tool on the way that'll raise my fuel pressure ~10psi.

Installed the new Hondata boost controller so I can have boost by gear/rpm. Published a howto for the install here: http://www.8thcivic.com/forums/turbocharging/193758-hondata-boost-soleno...

Also got the coolant fittings/lines installed.

Finally purchased coolant fittings from ATP Turbo to get my coolant running to the turbo properly.

Not a big fan of breather setups, but I guess the turbo mandates it. Picked up all these parts from Home Depot / Baxters.

Finding a fitting locally for the PCV system is basically impossible (due to it being a large metric thread), so I just made my own out of a spare PCV valve. Put it in a vice, put a tap down the middle of it on the barb end and hit it with a sledge. All the PCV parts pop out the back of it... filed down the resultant cracked edges on the back of the valve till it was smooth. Presto, perfect fitting for my breather. ;-)

I wanted this to go somewhere reasonably out of sight... chose to tuck it behind the headlight. Don't want to clutter up my engine bay with a bunch of random crap. I think it turned out reasonably clean.

Since disabling the Air Assist Valve succeeded in fixing my cold start issues, I decided to remove the valve completely. This meant getting a 3/8" NPT plug for the coolant hole and a couple vacuum plugs for the air hoses.

While I was in there, I decided to change the way the ECU ground was routed to keep it out of sight. This meant stripping back the wiring harness and re-taping to protect the wires.