It's a 9thgen EH!?

Well guys I thought I'd finally join the group since I was invited to earlier.
My car is a 2014 Civic SI, that I planned on getting as a new daily and leaving completely stock but after about 7-8 months of owning it I decided to do a mild setup which consisted of a Kraftwerks supercharger(120mm pulley) and Skunk2 header with the stock exhaust to keep it somewhat under the radar. The car was a fun daily that managed a 12.85@110mph with one somewhat clean pass on slicks(slipping stock clutch).
My Kraftwerks supercharger was removed and sold yesterday so I'm starting to shape up some plans for my build over the winter. As of right now we're looking to do a custom sidewinder setup for my 9thgen since it's something not seen on this chassis, the car will have custom downpipe, dumptube, charge piping, endtanks on my Garrett core intercooler, It will also consist of a Borg Warner 62mm turbo, Turbosmart 45mm wastegate and BOV. This season I'll be running 100% stock motor and shooting for 400whp/330wtq on 91 pump gas and hopefully near the 500whp range on racefuel. Any advice, criticism, comments feel free to post, I'd appreciate all types of feedback/input.

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Well guys I thought I'd finally join the group since I was invited to earlier.
My car is a 2014 Civic SI, that I planned on getting as a new daily and leaving completely stock but after about 7-8 months of owning it I decided to do a mild setup which consisted of a Kraftwerks supercharger(120mm pulley) and Skunk2 header with the stock exhaust to keep it somewhat under the radar. The car was a fun daily that managed a 12.85@110mph with one somewhat clean pass on slicks(slipping stock clutch).
My Kraftwerks supercharger was removed and sold yesterday so I'm starting to shape up some plans for my build over the winter. As of right now we're looking to do a custom sidewinder setup for my 9thgen since it's something not seen on this chassis, the car will have custom downpipe, dumptube, charge piping, endtanks on my Garrett core intercooler, It will also consist of a Borg Warner 62mm turbo, Turbosmart 45mm wastegate and BOV. This season I'll be running 100% stock motor and shooting for 400whp/330wtq on 91 pump gas and hopefully near the 500whp range on racefuel. Any advice, criticism, comments feel free to post, I'd appreciate all types of feedback/input.

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Ah I asked in the other thread if it was your first time running boost. Funny enough, you came over from the blower community! I see you ran a 120mm pulley, I thought the Kraftwerks kit was unmodifiable? Any details on that?

Looking forward to seeing your build man. Welcome to the forum! Sidewinder would be awesome. [MENTION=56]PetefromtheStreets[/MENTION] just set his up with a BW snail as well. The 8th gen guys make over 500 on stock block no problem, how can it be tolerated on the K24's?

Thanks for the welcome!
I accidentally made 2 threads :\
With the 9thgens the Kraftwerks kit come with the 120mm pulley vs 110mm on the 8th because of the bigger crank pulley they wanted to keep the kit around ~10psi so it didn't exceed the stock map sensor but you can pulley down to the 110mm without overspinning the blower so that should hit 12.5-13psi but I've decided to move on before trying it.

Sidewinder may be kind of odd with the k24z7 integrated head design(single port exhaust) so I may go the same route as PRL/Fullrace did with their manifolds.
Despite the head design the 9ths are doing quite well with turbo setups most keeping them in the 400-430whp 330-350wtq area on pump gas, I remember PRL hit 520whp 415wtq on theirs(stock motor) with e85 using a Precision 5858.


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:welcome::to::boostedk20: I've been trying to bring some 9th gens on the boards for a while! TSX's as well, but no go. :shrug:

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Thanks for the welcome!
I accidentally made 2 threads :\
With the 9thgens the Kraftwerks kit come with the 120mm pulley vs 110mm on the 8th because of the bigger crank pulley they wanted to keep the kit around ~10psi so it didn't exceed the stock map sensor but you can pulley down to the 110mm without overspinning the blower so that should hit 12.5-13psi but I've decided to move on before trying it.

Sidewinder may be kind of odd with the k24z7 integrated head design(single port exhaust) so I may go the same route as PRL/Fullrace did with their manifolds.
Despite the head design the 9ths are doing quite well with turbo setups most keeping them in the 400-430whp 330-350wtq area on pump gas, I remember PRL hit 520whp 415wtq on theirs(stock motor) with e85 using a Precision 5858.


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Good info! Keep us updated with the build! Very interested to see how things are done on the 9th gens! Car looks great, glad I ran into you via instagram!

I loved the kraftwerks setup but I'll be excited to see that snail in there!

Thanks man, I can't wait to start on this! Hopefully doing a big order on parts soon. Here in Nova Scotia Canada we have some pretty poor quality 91oct so I think I'll have 2 separate maps, one for low boost that will be pretty conservative and a more aggressive tune possibly with a water/meth setup to get the most out of it... tuner wise I'm kind of undecided haha🤔


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Seems to be pretty promising to work with the water/meth setup, if the kits failsafe is tripped it signals the Guardian Angel to dump boost protecting the motor.... What do you guys think?🤔

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Seems to be pretty promising to work with the water/meth setup, if the kits failsafe is tripped it signals the Guardian Angel to dump boost protecting the motor.... What do you guys think?🤔

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Personally, I'm skeptical. One malfunction and kaboom. Then again, it's the same way with tunes and boost and whatnot. I suggest looking for reviews and not being the guinea pig for that, if that would be the case. If all is well, I don't see why it's not worth the shot.

Hope that Canadian dollar boosts back up, so you can get this build under way!

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Personally, I'm skeptical. One malfunction and kaboom. Then again, it's the same way with tunes and boost and whatnot. I suggest looking for reviews and not being the guinea pig for that, if that would be the case. If all is well, I don't see why it's not worth the shot.

Hope that Canadian dollar boosts back up, so you can get this build under way!

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Alot of ST guys use them as well as speed3/6 owners but I haven't seen anything where someone's meth failed while having this rigged up. I know 2 guys here locally that have been running the AEM water/meth kit for 7-8 years between the two of them and never had any issues whatsoever but I still don't have confidence in it and I need something better than 91 to push the car😕


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Finally picked up the main ingredient for my build, got a good deal from a friend
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Finally picked up the main ingredient for my build, got a good deal from a friend
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Wooo!! Eager to see this moved! Details of the snail?

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Wooo!! Eager to see this moved! Details of the snail?

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Borg Warner s362 fmw t4 twin scroll .91ar, I got it off of a friend and I couldn't turn down the deal....I don't think anyone could have haha


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I also got another steal locally, PRL motorsports RBC intake manifold adapter kit❗️9thgens usually see a 10% increase in power with this swap on boosted applications
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I also got another steal locally, PRL motorsports RBC intake manifold adapter kit❗️9thgens usually see a 10% increase in power with this swap on boosted applications
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Beautiful swap parts! Never knew there was THAT much of an increase for an IM swap! The next step is to have [MENTION=28]Spaz[/MENTION] port and polish the RBC before putting it on. He did for us and we gained ~40whp with the stock 8th gen Si TB on our BoostedK20 Si.
Cutting board is also nice :thumb:

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Beautiful swap parts! Never knew there was THAT much of an increase for an IM swap! The next step is to have [MENTION=28]Spaz[/MENTION] port and polish the RBC before putting it on. He did for us and we gained ~40whp with the stock 8th gen Si TB on our BoostedK20 Si.
Cutting board is also nice :thumb:

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Well I guess I was wrong, not 10% but it climbs with boost to make a solid 27whp gain on 10psi with a precision 5858. Also thanks, that cutting board is a quality piece itself👌🏻😂
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Little things showing up here and there, downpipe flange, T4 to 3" transition flange now I'm patiently waiting on my head flange, intercooler core and my Turbosmart wastegate/blowoff valve
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:drooling: Loving those flanges

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Looks like Christmas in March! :iorun::cheers:

RBC on the way, now paint it black to match the turbo or attempt to polish it🤔
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RBC on the way, now paint it black to match the turbo or attempt to polish it🤔
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Polishing is a real bitch, but worth the struggle if you're going for that theme IMHO. Either way, I'm sure everything will turn out great and flow well! No pun intended :giggle: Did you think of porting & polishing the RBC at all?