Finally back in the garage....part deux!

Check out my big awesome bright sparkly pink intake manifold, fresh back from Baked Goods Powder Coating and with my fancy-dancy Golden Eagle fuel rail and Donkey Power 1000cc injectors!

hopefully it fits

How in the French toast have I never seen this before ? man this thing is sweet

I'm so jealous they now have drop in mount kits for 3rd gen Civic 1st Gen CRX

255s, dang

That's a whole lot of tire

Yeah, actually not entirely sure they're gonna work now...they're SO much bigger than I expected, hah

it's gonna scrub a TON of speed in the corners too.

From my desk, I wouldn't go bigger than 235/45 on there. the car is too small/light to need much more, especially in uphill corners.

Can't wait to hear and see this thing in action.

Well I wanted Integra axles, and after spending months exploring other options, we decided fuck it, we'll just make our own damn spindles. Damian did a buncha fancy shit with lasers and jigs, and here's the first one ready to get its support braces welded on!


We've been chugging along trying to get this wrapped up, as I've gotta be in Colorado for testing the first week of June. I've already dropped out of GTA Road Atlanta to focus more on getting the crx ready for Pikes Peak...we should just make it in time, I reckon!



Couldn't find an intercooler that would work how I wanted, so we made one...

love it

im surprised you didnt rotate the turbo 180deg putting the intake in the front, then run the exhaust out the hood or something.

GSRCRXsi said:

im surprised you didnt rotate the turbo 180deg putting the intake in the front, then run the exhaust out the hood or something.

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Wouldn't make sense for routing the intercooler piping

Just clock the compressor housing 180 from where it is now. You'd end up with the compressor outlet still pointed up and the intercooler piping would just be ~3" longer.

Just my opinion. I'm sure it'll work fine either way.

The compressor housing is pointed down, and the charge pipe routes between the starter and motor mount. The way you're suggesting would require running the charge pipe under the turbo and past the hot side, which isn't something I'm interested in doing; additionally, where it's at currently, the weight is more rearward than it would be if mounted in the configuration you're referring to.

No, that's not what I'm suggesting lol.

I'm saying rotate the turbo 180 on the turbine inlet V-band, which yes with the compressor where it currently is, would point down. What I'm saying is to ALSO rotate the compressor housing 180 degrees around the impeller so that the compressor outlet points up again.

Most of these turbos, it's pretty easy to clock the compressor housing to point the outlet wherever you want. But like I said, it probably doesn't matter, and it'll work either way. I would have just done it my way to make it easier to get cold air into the turbo.