daily driver turbo

is it a good idea to put a turbo on a daily driver or does it cause to many problems

well in your everyday driving, assuming you drive normal, your not going to go into boost so it doesnt really affect yoru daily driving.

if u dont run silly pressure and drive like a nob i dont see why not

buddy of mine was running 18psi on his daily driven talon, then he blew the motor, but thats because hes an idiot and ran 18psi on a stock bottom end. If its tuned right and its dependable, meaning you do all the math and its matched good for the engine and the other components you are running. Do all that you wont have any problems. There are alot of factory turboed cars.

if you drive like normal will you still hear the blowoff valve? i heard 6-8psi is good for most daily drivers

yeah ull hear it if your pushing to the point where its making alot of pressure. Alot of cars blow off at like 3-4k i think. Theres this guy around here with a 5th gen coupe turboed and he shifts at like 2.5-3k and you hear his blow off valve.

if you dont want to hear the bov sound then get an eclipse or talon stock one. I have one around my room somewhere...

i wanna hear it! :D cuz if i'm gonna spend a ton of money on a turbo kit imma be using it all the time in a fun daily driver, so i'm glad i'll be able to hear it ^_^

how much would a shop charge to put in a turbo for ya? ur already spendin a lot on the kit, might as well make sure someone installs it correctly, cuz i know jack about installing stuff in the engine bay. I'm an audio/interior guy

Well, if you can hear the bov at 3-4k, in 5th gear 3k is 65, 4k is about 82 for me. So I'll say it might affect you.

bov goes off only whenever u shift doesnt it? and if you shift at like 2k or so you won't hear it, but only about 2.5k+ you'll hear it go off? And would the bov go off everytime you let off the gas in 5th gear? lol too many ?s

I dont see why it would be a problem, the evo's run 16 psi dont they?

When ever your turbo spools and you let off the gas the BOV will sound. So let say your turbo spools at 3000 RPMs if you let off the gas under acceleration it will make the sound. If you let off the gas in the same car at 2500 rpms you will not hear it. BOV works on vacuum a sudden vacuum drop will open the BOV and then the excess charge(boost) will vent through the BOV port.

I dont see why it would be a problem, the evo's run 16 psi dont they?

Ya maybe but there compression is low and they where desinged for that specific turbo setup.

ahh i see, so it's not when you shift but when you let off the gas above the spool rpm. The rpms go down when you shift gears, so that's why you hear it then. I learn lots on the forum :)

When ever your turbo spools and you let off the gas the BOV will sound. So let say your turbo spools at 3000 RPMs if you let off the gas under acceleration it will make the sound. If you let off the gas in the same car at 2500 rpms you will not hear it. BOV works on vacuum a sudden vacuum drop will open the BOV and then the excess charge(boost) will vent through the BOV port.

WRONG.....3000 would be when ur turbo is fully spooled....turbos spool throughout the revs....if u hear the turbo whisteling and ur boost gauge is over 0psi...then u will hear the bov if it doesnt have a dump tube. FOR EXAMPLE...one of my buddies had a 95 civic ls swap turboed....when i drove it u couldnt shift without hearing it...seriously at 1500 ud hear it if u were in 2nd gear or higher

well in your everyday driving, assuming you drive normal, your not going to go into boost so it doesnt really affect yoru daily driving.

Yeah. Drive normally? haha

Id reccomend NO!!!!!!!!!!!! to me daily drive and turbocharged dont really work...

Hmm depends on the size of the turbo when you hear the BOV. Everytime when i drove my d16a6 turbo. Id always shift high enough to hear the psssssssssssssst..... sound. That was almost like my "high" It was like a sign of "wow look what i did with this car!" All you hard work and money put into it there is no way you can drive and shift low enough to make it a DD!
Hmm on mine gas milage isnt that bad but the stress put on an engine driving it for long stretches is!

WRONG.....3000 would be when ur turbo is fully spooled....turbos spool throughout the revs....if u hear the turbo whisteling and ur boost gauge is over 0psi...then u will hear the bov if it doesnt have a dump tube. FOR EXAMPLE...one of my buddies had a 95 civic ls swap turboed....when i drove it u couldnt shift without hearing it...seriously at 1500 ud hear it if u were in 2nd gear or higher

Ok well I dont have a BOV on my car and I have driven in two civics with the same setup as mine and I didnt hear the BOV on theres under 3,000 shifts. Unless you push hard in my car you cant even hear the waste gate. So what ever different setups do different things.