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Originally Posted by Ep3racer954
i think he wants a turbo mount like this one in the AEM sema civic si...
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I saw somewhere that esx005 pointed this out, and I agree completely... A top mounted turbo on these cars would be insanely hot (temperature). As of right now when he gets back from flogging his car a bit his engine bay is so hot it's crazy, and that's with the back mount. I think that behind the engine is the best place just for the simple fact that there's more room between the engine and firewall than anywhere else under the hood. If you took the stock airbox out you could fit a sidewinder turbo setup under the hood, but if you wanted an intake where would there be a safe place for it? IDK, that's just how I see it..
I've said it before and I'll say it again, with exception of a lack of tunable engine mangement the ajp kit really is a good kit. Is it pretty? No, not at all. But 3 shops in the dfw area alone (that's just that I've spoken with) have said that the welds look solid. I also haven't heard of a single person blowing their motor because of a kit itself, with exception of bad installation and that was a comptech s/c kit. I've heard of no cracked manifolds either.. The only other thing that bothers me about the ajp kit is the fact that it's so fickle with its placement. If everything isn't just right then it will have some sort of problem from what I've read on here. The running so rich at idle that it smokes would be a huge problem to a lot of people, but I would rather run really rich than run lean as hell and see detonation in my near future. :shrugs: Plus, that goes away with some sort of e-manage or k-pro and a good tune. Luckily Jeremy happens to live about 4-5 hours away from st00pidfast so a good shop to have his car tuned at isn't really out of reach.