Turbo Vs. N/A

Well ive been playing around with these two ideas for a while, do i wanna boost or keep it all motor. Ive heard boost isn't bad on these engines if you run low psi and you make some pretty high numbers. Also i heard all motor was awesome cause you can get close to the same HP and more realiable in some peoples minds.

My problem is what about stock internals if i turboed and did a really good tune should i be safe? Or should i beef up internals and go all motor cause keep in my mind i do not have the funds to do both.

wat about going all motor a right now and then when u can afford it drop on a turbo. thats just my thoughts tho

My opinion, just don't turbo it all together. Work on making it safer and stronger body wise before you get into the engine tuning.

thats what i was thinking but that factors in alot of costs for parts i would be disregarding like, header, would i buy turbo cams to begin with or just racing cams etc?

Thai-kun wrote:

My opinion, just don't turbo it all together. Work on making it safer and stronger body wise before you get into the engine tuning.

what do you mean body wise? and well its got fully redone brakes all around, full race quality suspension

As I see it, it really will come down to how big your wallet is. To get the same numbers NA as you can with a good turbo setup it's gonna cost a heck of alot more money.

If you go the turbo route make sure you know what your engine is capable and start pushing up the boost when it clearly can't handle it.

BrYaNtOn wrote:

wat about going all motor a right now and then when u can afford it drop on a turbo. thats just my thoughts tho

I agree, man you can do all your internals go all motor for now your engine has super low km's so even when you do have the money to turbo it you won't have to worry about turboing a really high km engine anyways.

I dont think it would be worth it to try to make power n/a. It would require a lot of work done to the head, increasing compression, ignition, ect..

Turbo motor will have a lot more potential

get the car on the road first, then keep it all motor for a bit, build it up, do other shit to it, and then when you think its ready and when the wallet is too then turbo it.

bchap wrote:

As I see it, it really will come down to how big your wallet is. To get the same numbers NA as you can with a good turbo setup it's gonna cost a heck of alot more money.

what he said.

go turbo and get a good tune.

All depends what you want, but if you want raw power, its gotta be turbo'd. Just be prepared for a lot of tweaking and tuning. You can still though get decent power from N/A, and the reliability factor, but it ll depends on how fast you wanna go. Annother option is going N/A with a 50 to 75 shot of spray, its a lot cheaper than anything and if done properly will not harm your engine. Bang for the buck is definately spray, could put you at a mid 14 or so.

Turbo could put me even faster tho, and isnt spray expensive and well short lived

I think he was saying if you were going to track the car, like at SIR. However, I believe you want it as your daily driver and if that is the case that probably isn't what you are looking for.

I am under the impression that you are looking for all the time horsepower in a daily driver correct?

So in that case you should sit down and figure out how much you want to spend. You can't really start building an all engine and then switch to a turbo set up, as some of the parts may not be compatible for the set up. To me I think it would take a lot of commitment to to an all engine but you could probably do it progressively. A turbo seems like it needs to all be done in one shot. However, if you do all engine be sure to follow it through or else you end up with the same set up as most people in that predicament, which would be a mildly tuned civic, and a pipe dream.

I would personally say turbo but you might have to prepare yourself for some frustration.