Turbocharging your Honda Civic is a wonderful strategy to increase the engine’s horsepower and torque. There’s completely no other strategy to gain as much power for the amount of cash that you will spend than turbocharging. A turbocharger will increase the horsepower of the car by pushing more oxygen into the combustion chamber of your car’s engine. After the oxygen enters the combustion chamber it mixes with fuel. This mixtures creates an explosion that causes the engine to work faster, creating extra torque. Carve out a two to a few hour block of time to put in your turbocharger kit.

Honda Civic Turbocharger Installation Instructions

1. Jack up the Civic and place it on jack stands.
2. Remove the exhaust manifold from the engine by loosening the bolts holding it to the block and to the rest of the exhaust system with a ratchet.
3. Connect the turbocharger to the exhaust manifold with an exhaust gasket in between. Safe the turbocharger with the bolts provided and tighten with a ratchet.
4. Install the new turbo manifold onto the engine block with a ratchet.
5. Connect the oil feed line from the engine block to the turbocharger. You possibly can faucet into the engine block on the oil pressure sensor.
6. Remove the oil pan and send it to a welder to have an oil return bung welded onto it.
7. Reinstall the oil pan to the engine block and route the oil return line to the bung that was welded on.
8. Install the air filter to the turbocharger inlet.
9. Route the intake tubing equipped in the turbo kit from the turbo compressor outlet to the throttle body. This tube will supply the compressed air from the turbocharger to the engine.
10. Set up a cat-back exhaust system that may attach to the brand new exhaust manifold or have a new exhaust system fabricated so that it matches the diameter of the exhaust manifold.
11. Plug an engine tuner into the OBD (On-Board-Diagnostics) II port and scroll via the options in the tuner to pick out a “tune” to your application. What this does is increase the quantity of fuel injected in the motor to compensate for the amount of air entering. What is being tried is “stoichiometry,” which is the right balance of air to fuel (14.7:1) and is necessary for smooth engine operation.