It's, it's alive! (now with pics!)

[BOOSTBOY]

Yes, finaly my CityT1 is back on the road complete with a new front mount cooler, custom exhaust manifold and garret GT17 turbo!
After a lot of late nights and alot of hours work, this weekend i drove it agin for the first time in 7 weeks!  
The best part about it now, by far, is the way it sounds!  I cant believe the difference the new turbo and manifold has made to the exhaust note!  From the inside, it sounds more like a skyline GT-R than a honda city!
It goes well too, on 10psi now it is about as quick as it was with the old turbo at 16psi!  Need to upgrade the fuel system now in preperation for some serious boost.
Bad thing though is that the power range has narrowed somewhat and moved higher in the revrange meaning that when cruising at 110kmh, a hill means a change to 4th gear in order to bring it on boost.  But hey, thems the breaks of a big turbo!

Cheers

Glenn

[Brendan]

Sounds awesome, cant wait for the piccies!!!

Brendan

[QikLude]

...hmmmmmm phat city.....

must see pics soon!!

Jw

[Colza]

How much did you have to pay for the Garret GT17? I as looking at a new turbo but they are sooooooo 'spensive :-/

[Turbo3]

Yo Glenn,

Great stuff man! Sounds like your hard work paid off and you're now the proud father of a very cool ride!! ;D

Pete

[BOOSTBOY]

Thanks guys!

Colza - I can get another GT17 for $300 if you are interested

Pete - Yep, hard work has paid off, imagine how you will feel when T3 finally fires into life!

Pics are there!

:)

[QikLude]

hell yeah!!

thats things cool!

Got any picys of the exhaust setup outa the car? id be very keen to take a looksee....

Jw

[QikLude]

Hey also, whats that turbo off?

Jw

[BOOSTBOY]

Hey QikLude,

Its a Garrett GT17 from a SAAB 9-5 2.3L...

Heres a pic of the setup out o the car...

[QikLude]

Cheers for the info dude!

Me and pgnuta are looking at it both thinking insane thoghts

[Brendan]

Now that, is freeken awesome!!!!!

awesome work mate, I'm very jealous!!!



I want to see some videos!

Brendan

[kenny]

hey Glen

your city looks cool. how much did you spwnd on that exhaust manifold????

do you kno what this garrett turbo is off. it says on it BSK 3 M27 A/R48
this is the turbo my dad wants to put on his turbo1.
any help will be cool

thanks kenny

[BOOSTBOY]

Hey Kenny,

The exhaust cost me about $30 to make!  Just took alot of time...

Buying a new digital camera so vidoes could be on their way too...

Cheers

G

[ct]

Hi Boostboy,
                  My 1st gen civic with a GT17 powered city turbo is alomost finished. I was wondering what the performance gains of the bigger turbo are like? When you upgrade the fuel system are you going to put in a sixth injecter or use bigger injecters?.

Cheers
Chris ;D

[BOOSTBOY]

Hey Chris,

The fuel system is still stock at the moment, hence me only running about 10psi.  It seems to be making about the same power at this level of boost as it did at 16psi with the old setup.  The more boost i run the better this turbo will get, im sure. Ive decided to not use the microtech computer and instead simply upgrade the injectors to B20's and run a bigger pump with a malpassi regulator.  That should support my intended 20psi.

Its a completely different animal to drive now.  Instead of full boost arriving at about 2800, it hits full boost at about 4000 but revs much, much more cleanly to redline.  It really loves to rev now.  It has lost alot of power below 3000 though which gets a bit of getting used to.  All up though im very happy with the GT17.