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I'm eyeballing a turbo EK4. I've driven the car in the passenger seat and it seemed to run very well besides being very fast (obviously). It's powered by XSPower parts on stock internals, uprated injectors + fuel pump and a custom tune on a chipped P28. I've been searching and found that their 1st gen parts weren't really all that well but later gen are supposed to be reasonable reliable. The things I've heard and seen:
- The mani has ruptured on one spot, it has been welded. I know that these ramhorn mani's from cheaper brands sometimes do that. Might swap for a cast iron log one if it gives me a lot of problems.
- The two front most bolts keeping the turbo to the manifold tend to come loose after some time the owner told me. Is this normal or to be expected and not a big problem at all?
- It uses around 1l every 5k km/3k miles when using the power available. Sounds like reasonable for a turbo VTEC build, what do you guys think?
- I saw that the oil temperaturegauge seemed to hover around the 95 degrees celsius / 203 degrees fahrenheit. Not sure how reliable that gauge is though. Suppose that is normal for a turbo'd Civic as everything under the hood was never designed for a turbo? Or am I wrong?
Anything else to check?
- The mani has ruptured on one spot, it has been welded. I know that these ramhorn mani's from cheaper brands sometimes do that. Might swap for a cast iron log one if it gives me a lot of problems.
- The two front most bolts keeping the turbo to the manifold tend to come loose after some time the owner told me. Is this normal or to be expected and not a big problem at all?
- It uses around 1l every 5k km/3k miles when using the power available. Sounds like reasonable for a turbo VTEC build, what do you guys think?
- I saw that the oil temperaturegauge seemed to hover around the 95 degrees celsius / 203 degrees fahrenheit. Not sure how reliable that gauge is though. Suppose that is normal for a turbo'd Civic as everything under the hood was never designed for a turbo? Or am I wrong?
Anything else to check?