A custom sheepey manifold. Another guy on 8thcivic has a boost junkyz manifold and he is creeping bad like me so sent his manifold to sheepey so he could make a new one but put the turbo in the same spot so he is just going to make two manifolds. Works out for me because I won't have to send my manifold out.
Ya I'm pretty excited! Been praying it doesn't creep! The new manifold will also be using a larger 45mm turbosmart wastegate, rather than the 38mm tial mvs that I have now so that should help as well. I'm hoping I get the new manifold in 2 weeks or so. Only think I'll have to get custom made afterwards is a new dumptube which shouldn't be too tough to do. I'll probably buy a j bend and some straight pipe and figure out what will work, then just take it somewhere to be cut and welded.
Today I tore down the 5 speed main and counter shaft. Now I just need to order a bunch of stuff from majestic and a new countershaft and FD from kseries parts. once I receive all that, I will send my gears off to be treated by racer steve!
[MENTION=185]aLmk[/MENTION] why 38mm WG? what type of power you hoping for?
Hmm, rethinking my gear choice... So I have a base rsx 5 speed gear set without the FD, and I have a z3 6 speed gear set with an unusable mainshaft, counter shaft, and FD - so 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th could be reused. This is something I just thought of, seems like it might be a decent combination other than the 2nd to 3rd shift. This is comparing the stock transmission (left) to my hybrid (right).
For this setup, I would just need to get a 4.3 FD, use the base 5 speed counter shaft and main shaft, and put gears 3-5 from my 6 speed on there, and then use the base 5 speed's 5th gear (if I can) as my 6th gear. LMK what you guys think.
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