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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 9, 2019 17:12:02 GMT -5
Seen a lot of reviews for the CRX ones. Mostly good ones, stating how balanced they are, never seen a complaint about leaking. That one is nice since it's ball bearing and only oil cooled. The Ebay ones are a straight hit or miss. Last thing I want is to do all that work and block a cheap turbo on startup. What wastegate and BOV are you running? Thinking of getting the Tial MVS WG and their BOV.
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Post by cmturner on Dec 9, 2019 17:27:49 GMT -5
Seen a lot of reviews for the CRX ones. Mostly good ones, stating how balanced they are, never seen a complaint about leaking. That one is nice since it's ball bearing and only oil cooled. The Ebay ones are a straight hit or miss. Last thing I want is to do all that work and block a cheap turbo on startup. What wastegate and BOV are you running? Thinking of getting the Tial MVS WG and their BOV. Honestly just running a cheap amazon wastegate and bov, need to get a better wastegate though |
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 9, 2019 19:53:00 GMT -5
Are they working relatively good? Trying to minimize initial pocket drainage.
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Post by cmturner on Dec 9, 2019 20:02:31 GMT -5
Are they working relatively good? Trying to minimize initial pocket drainage. They work good, but wastegate doesn't open quick enough |
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 10, 2019 0:06:02 GMT -5
My friend Alex ran a $120 turbo at 12psi without issues too though... It was at 14psi he blew the turbo seals.
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 10, 2019 6:49:11 GMT -5
After Christmas I'm gonna get the half rad started. Then either contact Alex about a manifold or go local. Probably could send him turbo and wastegate and have him fab something.
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 10, 2019 9:11:32 GMT -5
Shipping would cost a boatload, but I bet he'd do it. The issue for fitment would be that he doesn't have an Eclipse, especially not one with a half size rad. He went top mount because of lack of space already in his engine bay
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 10, 2019 13:02:02 GMT -5
I personally just like the look of bottom mount. But according to the interwebs. You gain faster spool from a bottom mount and higher boost from top mount.
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 10, 2019 20:12:06 GMT -5
That really makes no sense whatsoever to be honest.
The placement won't affect runner design or turbo design, which are what actually affects those things.
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 10, 2019 21:27:22 GMT -5
guess it's easier to get equal length with bottom mount. Didn't make sense to me either. Just thought it was funny, read it on a couple of the Honda/Acura forums.
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 10, 2019 22:25:41 GMT -5
Well that's your first mistake! Honda forums are a scary place where science gets you made fun of, but myths that get passed on get you friends
top vs bottom mount would not have any impact on making equal length runners. You would literally just flip the runners upside down and weld them to the flange reversed to switch from top to bottom, or bottom to top.
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 10, 2019 22:41:59 GMT -5
I completely agree. I just thought it was funny. My personal opinion is I just love the banana manifold (ram horn). But i'm too cheap to pay someone to make me one.
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 11, 2019 0:01:07 GMT -5
I like ram horns quite a lot too. They look very nice, and work very well.
But you're right, the cost is very high
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Post by namelessfoe on Dec 11, 2019 6:34:03 GMT -5
So after more numbers matching. The Mishimoto Evo 7/8/9 half rad is a perfect inlet/outlet match to our cars at 1.38. But it's only a dual core. The Honda 3 core is 1.4. Which is odd because their dual core reg Evo rad is 1.4. But their slim fan w/shroud moves 1300 cfm. So it should still be enough. So rad and fan shroud looks like it's gonna set me back around $430. So I may just order Alex's top mount for now. Ram horn in the future.
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Post by Sabertooth on Dec 11, 2019 8:57:36 GMT -5
It's about the efficiency more than cores. Then an important factor is getting air to flow through it. You'll be wanting to close off the nose of the car except for the rad, and some ducting leading to it would be an asset as well
Otherwise, you'll have high pressure air behind the rad, and in front, causing a situation of no flow. The fan itself is quite minimal amounts of flow compared to when you're driving around
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