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Hey, I'm Nick. I just sold my 1994 Acura Integra GSR (I miss it everyday) and I am going to pick up my buddy's turbo MK3 in a little bit. I was wondering though, does anybody recommend a newer, quicker spooling turbo that I can slap on this bad boy?

HAHAHAHAHA That's funny.

Nothing and I mean nothing just slaps onto this car.
You are going to wish you would have stuck with what you knew.

Welcome and good luck.

Haha...that was not the answer I wanted to hear. Haha...Maybe I'll just stick with the stock turbo and go with a nice downpipe/exhaust combo. Anyone recommend anything worth taking a look at? I'm thinking either a Blitz or HKS cat back. Any idea's on a good downpipe? I'm new to this turbo stuff. Honda N/A is all I know. (Haha)

You should go hks all the way.
You should pay them to do it.

That way when it fouls out. They will fix it.
Not you.

Autech makes nice down pipes.
They build gt championship cars.

You new cats should have gone out and bought a nismo 350z.
Nothing much left to do to them except add turbo.

Haha. I don't think I could drop almost 40,000 on a 350. Especially since this MK3 is only costing me $2700 AND it hasn't even broke 100,000 miles yet!
Btw- What did you mean by "You should pay them to do it"...Like have them install it or what?

go full custom exhaust

alot of info on this site and others.... read it.

Your getting yourself into a lot and if you dont read before hand you will waste your money ;)

Welcome to the forum

BIC Performance Home for the down pipe

935 Motorsports Home Page for the RS*R type exhausts

Tahts just my personal prefence ofcourse

You can't get the nismo z for 40k unless you're buying 2 of them.

I need a porsche forum:(

Ignore Supramescist unless hes being serious, most of us like him but he is rather sarcastic. Anyway congrats on your new MKIII, but Supramiscist is corrent, nothing just "bolts onto this car. There are alot of things to consider.
1. Change the Head Gasket immediatly, MKIII's are netorious for bhg's (blown head gaskets) and you dont want to experience one in our cars, trust me I have had it twice and other problems come with it. I would suggest spending the extra dough and buying a metal head gasket. Especially if your going for higher horses.
2. What is your budget? Be realistic, its worth it. Put money slowly into your car, dont go all out at once and find out you cant finish your surrent project.
3. HKS is good, but look around a little and do some research. Check otu diffrent sites and see what worked best for other people. Finding a winning combo in our cars isn't difficult but you have to know what your doing, you cant just bolt on a T whatever turbo and turn it up to 15PSI and expect your car to run great, you blow a head gasket run into fuel cut, a whole bunch of stuff.
4. Cold Air Intakes are usually a good first mod, alot of people go with the K&N FIPK kit but myself and others take it a bit furthur and route it into the inside of the bumper. After that go with the downpipe and work your way to a Lexus AFM with 550cc Injectors then you can move to a higher turbo.

Like I said it is what you WANT to do and what you can REALISTICALLY can do. I wish you the best and look forward to your updates.

Thanks Raven. The Mk3 is going to be a daily driver at the moment. Later on down the road I want to try (<--Keyword) to do a 1jz-gte swap into it. But for right now, I might just stick with CAI at the moment. Haha

Anyone have any info on the JZE swap? I can't seem to find anything Directly related to the swap into an 89 MK3.

I think your best bet is to get a 1JZ front clip... That way you get all of the required parts you need for your swap.

However, since I have no interest in doing the swap myself, I'm not sure if that's the right way to go. Try using the "Search" feature on the forum here... There are a ton of threads that talk about the swap.

Good Luck

Ya I'm the a$$hole. I think you're still mad raven cause I thought from your handle that you were a chick. I said I was sorry for that:).

Look guys I come here to have fun and try to help. I don't want to see anyone have to go through what I have with my ride. But on the same hand. People that aren't willing to help themselves or even know what or if they have tems...., I have issues with.

Basically everyone on this forum is great. We can all help each other and we can have fun doing it. I myself are prone to posting Q's when I get stumped. And I admit sometimes I look back and think I was retarded for not figuring it out more soon.

I may be a jerk at times but I wouldn't give out bogus 411.
Now's your chances to take your shots so let's do it and then we'll laugh and help someone save a supra.

See ^ @$$hole! LOL Supramescist you know I love ya. And just so everyone knows he has helped me with alot of things on my supra and is wise in the way of upgrades, that being said hes still a jerk! LOL hit a chord with ya did i? Anyway for newbies Supramescist is a good person to turn to for questions, and I dont give out bogus 411 either. We are bopth, along with most other people on this forum, passionate about our cars which is why we come across like we do.
Anyway that being said, welcome to the forum, hope we can help save your supras.
btw I am putting your first parragraph in my sig, too funny!

Lol...if that was a punch to my kidenys, thats acceptable. I have no hard feelings against anyone. I am just trying to get a hand on this flat 6, turbo charged monster that they call the Supra. I could go on for days about Honda's B18c5's hand ported and polished heads and when Vtec engages but I'm trying to expand my knowledge on other car/motor types. I know that I don't know much and thats why I'm trying to learn. Hopefully from the best of the best too, Other owners!

Where'd you get a flat 6????

I am the way I am because I spent tooooooo much time at supramania.

Ya, some of yous' heard me right, run and tell all the other elitists.:boring:

I think I'm the black sheep of all the supraforums.

lol, yea you do get around don't you supramacist! lol

By the way Villain, Share some pics of your car with us all, and good luck on it to!!

I would say if you wanted to go 1JZ then make sure you reseach it a lot because it is not a easy swap in the amount of things you have to change over. But as for ease of mods yeah it is kinda like modding a 2JZ because they are almost the same except .5 liter and smaller turbos on the 1JZ. The turbo kits will fit the same between them with some slight mods. Also the 1JZ is a lot more reliable in the matter of throwing it and driving the piss out of it. Ask Aaron at drift motion he will tell you what kind of number they are turning out of theres. Just one thing check the ECU caps before you install it the may be bad and they will go bad just replace them and cure the problem before it starts. I have smoked a sr20det 240sx like he was sitting still with it all factory. Now I just have grip problems or I would tell you my quarter times. I spin for 70ft lol is great or not.

What are the things that you have to change over?

Most villians already know how to rob banks dude.
That's what makes them villians.

You want a 1jz. But you haven't put any research into it.
I think you know just what need happen.

You should stop asking the q's that get asked in here weekly and
read around the forum..

Those of us that bust hump on our rides don't always give out every little tid bit we learned and someday. You'll be the person with a thrashed ride.
Because you took some ones word for it and didn't research.

Why would I go search for it when I can get it straight from the horses mouth? I'm pretty sure when you were new to your Supra, you didn't just lay back and do "research". I am curious about the car and want to know more about what I can do to it.

Supramacist is right. Research is the best thing to do. Problem with just asking the question is that anyone who thinks they know about what they're saying could give you some wrong info and destroy whatever it is you were fixing at the time. When you research, it's all older posts that have been argued over and tried, so you get some definitive results. Also you get the benefit of checking outside of the forum and maybe picking up some new info so you can school some of the members on here when you come back with your new found knowledge.

It's not that nobody wants to help you, it's just that these are kind of commonly discussed topics, and we know you can find most of your answers by doing a little snooping around.

It's like that saying "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life". Get used to the research now, it'll help ALOT down the road.

Good luck, and if you need more help after researching, then come back and ask away

I didn't say I wans't going to do any research, I just figured if I got the info from someone who actually did the swap, that they would know whats up.

No one just swaps 1jz's man.
They are the most difficult swap to pull off.
It's like you may as well go ahead and convert it to rhd as well.

And chilling the heck out wouldn't hurt either.
No one wants to talk to a chode. That why I only respond.
Ba doom boom tsss.

I wasn't trying to be a dick, or sarcastic, like yourself.

Chill everyone Supramacist is right it is a pain in the ass swap I have dont it and beleive me it took me a month to get all the parts and everything right. It all depends on how mechanically inclined you are really I have been working on cars since I was 13 and now am 29, Plus I have worked on jet engines not really related but still something. The 1JZ comes from a supra so you know it will fit right but there are some differences like engine mounts if you are a pre 89. The driveshaft may be different. the are some harnesses that have to be swapped. Power steering lines different. Buy the clip and you will get everything you will need except a driveshaft and power steering hose. Like everyone has said I know I personnally have went over this quite a few times for people I have even helped out a guy near me that wanted to do it. But I also went on here and researched the whole thing before I asked any questions about it. You think the people are dicks on here if you ask a question that has been gone over try supramania. They really go off of people that ask stuff like that.

I think you should just take your time with the car. Don't start beating the crap out of the car and then to find out that you need to do this and that. Believe me, I had a B16A in an '89 CRX. Did the swap thing, all motor thing, and honestly, Hondas are a lot more cheaper and easier to work on. Just as an example, the book time to change a head gasket on a Honda about 4.5 hours, with everything. On this car, the 7M head gasket swap is 16 hours. That doesn't mean it will take that long, but you get the idea. Do your research and ask around (the right people) and you should be fine.
I am lucky, I have been working on cars since I was 12 and am also 29 now. Did alot of import and domestic performance, so I know exactly what I'm getting into when I start something with this car. That's why I have another engine and rebuilding it my self on the side while I drive the car around everyday. Good luck and get a metal head gasket with some studs!

Thats what people keep telling you...

People have done the research and the info is out there. Why should anyone here spell it out for you when it has already spelled out.

I am lucky and i have job where i do very little expect sit in front of a computer with plenty of time to read. There is alot of info out there on anything you could think of. Find it. Read it. read it again. If stumped then you

Post a question about it, post where you found the info, post what you did to fgire it out, how exactly you are stumped.... Thats when people help, when there is a new question...

Sure we have all asked stupid questions here. and have all been told to go research it lol

Aww.. I also have a 1994 Acura Integra and upon hearing your story it really makes me down. Can we see your new ride?

Yo villan, nice to see you came to the good side of the force. You have stepped up in the world and put down the little fart can toys lol. Nah im just yankin', it is good to have a background and many types of cars and engines. We all started somewhere, I never so much as owned a little pocket rocket as you did (knew there would be something better) but I did help my friends with theirs and learned a lot while doing it. We're all hoping to see some pics soon too of your new ride.

I can see your eager to rip into it, but like the other members said go slow, think carefully and research a lot. As for your plans of a 1jz swap, I also thought about it when I started and then started a thread and got bullied because I should have researched first. So don't worry your not the only one.

But anyways like the other members have said, it is a pain in the a$$. Worth it in the end but most people probably encountered lots of sleepless nights.

All in all though start to build your knowledge on the 7mgte and 7mge. Besides there is nothing wrong with a 7M (other then the hg's (quick fix), im turning 400hp out with minor mods in my mind. Just got to work on the grip now.

Nice to meet yea, good luck to you on the forum.

Boom, did you notice most of this thread was posted back in March. Jus lettin you know.

Haha no sorry guys, just thought I would say my part. I thought I found this thread in the new posts section of this forum. Cheers.