My financial situation suddenly became quite bright! So the car's in the shop now.

 

- now aren't you glad I didn't take that off your hands?

 

no!

 

no need to roll the eyes, i missed that last part, my bad.

 

There are plenty of hondas out there with the GT28RS with 380whp or more at around 28psi. They're 1.9L or so and we have a 2.0L with a better flowing head.

 

he's not going to be running anywhere near that much boost with the stock 11:1 compression ratio though. gotta think about how much power he'll be making around 5-7 psi.

 

nothing a little xoulene can't handle

 

haha, if he doesn't even want to build the engine, what makes you think he wants to mix his own race gas?

 

I'm currently running 8psi at peak, non-intercooled on a stock engine. It's probably a bit much but as it really only hits 8psi for a second at shift point when driving hard it seems to be holding up just fine.

I'm looking for 6-8 psi with usable boost from say 3000rpm. A predictable later upgrade wouyld be a built motor so there is some argument for using a turbo that is not maxed out, but as this is probably a long way in the future I really don't want to sacrifice now to allow for future possibilities.

 

with a properly sized turbo for your power goals you should be able to hit full boost around 3,000-3,500 rpms.

since you will only be running low boost, any turbo you get will probably have potential left.