the wifes EK civic - d16y8 turbo

[lucas]

I think so, either t3 or t4
I have a pic of the flange some where
It's the top flange for the manifold right?

[mercutio]

yeah thats right

[lucas]

According to this its T3

[lucas]

[lucas]

Gave the inside a clean out and a hover so took some pics, got a gear gator on the way and thinkin about a putting a prelude dash in the Ek ?



Took some more pics while I was out but my mate came round a few weeks ago and took some really good pics that shows the real quality of the paint







And these are my mates pics, a few weeks old mind so didn't have a few new bits fitted.







It's only held in with two bolts in this pic Know
Snapped a bolt in there so need to sort it







And I'm assuming some of will remember the dark shoot we had..





Well we decided to edit a few..

Not the best I know but we don't edit stuff lol



A friend made it a bit better, apart from the galaxy placement lol

And done this pic


Into these






Will be doing an update on it soon, few more parts lined up

[Rudelude]

Love it....
Looks amazing
Great job dude

[lucas]

Thanks rudelude

[lucas]

Got some new bits

Picked up a Garrett TB2525 and a new v-band downpipe with adapters





Downpipe will need to be chopped and extended to fit to the top mount when I get it and the turbo needs to be sent to an engineer to see if he can rotate the compressor housing, as 1 of the 4 bolts snapped I'm also looking at getting a tail wastegate, no more eBay parts lol

going to be working on the turbo today to do shave down the outlet on the compressor housing to fit a silicone reducer so I will post photos later

[mercutio]

isnt that a smaller turbo?

[lucas]

Sure is
Faster spool and will also be able to take it to about 12psi after the block is built.
Last one spooled really slow and late