That's not me, but a friend of mine who has the same last name, strangely enough.
He did do the intake and exhaust fabrication on this car though, which is why the exhaust is a bit of a work of art! I do enjoy seeing nice big 3" stainless mandrels joined together by tiny uniform TIG welds with V-bands at every connection.

 

I've had a couple questions about what it takes to build a setup like this, so I'll add in my comments:

I think the cost would be in the range of 5-6k to have it done properly. Labour to install would be at least another 1000 I'd bed. I don't know how many would really want to spend that much on a Fit.

The most difficult part is the tuning. Piggyback ECU's are a bit hokey, but that allows the OEM ECU to take over and offer the best closed loop driveablility. Stand-alone would be difficult to get tuned for daily driver situations like cold weather, hot start, etc... So until hondata has a flashpro for GE fit, you have to put up with a piggyback trying to trick the stock ECU.

Other than that, it is just like any other turbo build, so if the builder has turbo experience, they will know how to do the charge air plumbing and oil/coolant plumbing.

 

Market this and you WILL have sales coming from this forum

 

I'll put together a parts list with some price estimates and labour estimates and see what the numbers work out to.

 

Hey, just found where we have a bunch of photos of the Fit build:

Flickr: ATR Honda's Photostream

There are actually photos dating all the way back to the beginning of our Associate racing team. Lots of great memories, starting with that blue 06 Civic Si.

 

Also found FIC wiring notes to ECU connectors.
(format is a bit messed up in text)

Signal FIC Fit
Crank sensor CRK HALI+ SENSOR
CRK HALO+ C32
Cam sensor CAM1 HALI+ SENSOR
CAM1 HALO+ C31
MAF sensor MAF IN+ SENSOR
MAF OUT+ B31
MAP sensor ANALOGA IN+ SENSOR
ANALOGA OUT+ C11
A/F sensor O21+ C29
HO2 sensor O22+ B36
IG1 power IGN PWR C10
power ground PWR GND B10
power ground PWR GND B1
signal ground SIG GND B33
injectors INJ1 OUT INJECTOR
INJ1 IN C5
INJ2 OUT INJECTOR
INJ2 IN C6
INJ3 OUT INJECTOR
INJ3 IN C7
INJ4 OUT INJECTOR
INJ4 IN C8

 

Keep the info coming

 

What intake manifold are you using?

 

Beautiful work!!!

 

Bisimoto aluminum fabricated plenum manifold. We were concerned about the stock resin plastic manifold taking so much boost pressure.

 

So, here's what I think would be a realistic budget estimate for 200whp turbo from GE8 Fit with a streetable full exhaust. Ours was making 215whp with a catless 3" side exit straight pipe exhaust on 91 R+M octane.

It works out to $6000 + install labour and tuning. I can share the maps I have for AEM FIC-8 with MAF and MAP clamps, but would require fine tuning at a dyno with a sniffer wideband.

Of that total, $2300 is estimated for custom fabricated parts that I could assist with providing.
The remaining $3700 is estimated for generic parts that need to be acquired. This estimate is for a quality setup, similar to what Full-race provides, and parts could be interchanged with equivalent parts to reduce costs.
For example, one could go with a much cheaper turbo, but it wouldn't spool as fast. And the EFR has an excellent internal wastegate, as well as an ingenious built in recirc-BOV.

 

Man... that quote/setup seems on par and LEGIT... Woul LOVE to see some FI 200whp GE Fit's hitting the street!!!

 

very nice...do you have any videos?

 

appreciate the breakdown of components. doesn't seem all too bad, considering the outcome. as far as the turbo manifold, are you having a pipe bolted directly after the cast oe manifold? Are you able to make another flange for the turbo inlet into discharge and outlet to the downpipe? if i were to do a turbo setup, i'd try to be more budget-friendly, especially with the turbo, (if my other car doesn't have an efr, my daily isn't going to get one either!) maybe something like a take off td04 off of the subaru's/saabs or another OE turbo take off that can be had for relatively cheap.

As far as heat generated, are you recommending an oil cooler, even for the daily driven, non-tracked applications? I'm wondering how hot these engines run, thinking that an upgraded radiator would be a better option over the oil cooler (just realized that the oil cooler is $99)? want to make one for my s2000?

 

Yes, the exhaust manifold is very simple. Its just a transition from the OEM integrated exhaust manifold outlet shape to the turbo inlet shape (T25). Have a look in the gallery for photos of it.
The EFR has a standard T25 inlet flange, only the outlet is V-band. So any other turbo of appropriate size would be T25.

The exhaust housing outlet would just have to be matched to the downpipe, whether its a V-band or GT28RS or whatever...

Turbos generate a lot of heat, so that's why I'd recommend an oil cooler.
A larger rad is also a good idea too. It depends on how hard you drive on the street.
If you were trying to simplify, you could upgrade your rad and then install an OEM oil-to-water donut cooler from an S2000.
But oil coolers are cheap, running the lines is the most challenging part. And since you'll need another pressure feed line for the turbo, it makes sense to since a sandwich adapter will have a couple extra feed ports that you can use for the turbo oil feed so you don't have to tee the oil pressure switch port.

 

How much boost were you running on the stock internal set up?

 

We had peak boost of 13.8psi at 6800rpm on the stock setup.

 

thanks for the insight. do you have a link to the gallery? i'm not seeing it in this thread the rdx injectors are drop in with splicing needed? or plug and play? also, what kind of intake system are you running? short pipe to a filter?

for me, the fit as a daily driver is very ideal, the only thing missing is a little bit of power. I'm not too power hungry with this car, but an additional 30-40hp would be sufficient for me so I definitely would like to go to more budget-friendly items. with that said, are you able to construct intercooler pipes that would mate to a different core, like a take off from an evo?

 

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