what about a manual swap?

 

i thought about it and wasn't sure if it would be worth it to go that route or to drop in a high stall tourqe converter...
hmmmmmm.... so many choices...

 

I think the manual would be better in general because of the shorter gear ratios vs an auto more power man, more power! ^_^

 

yeah i'm deffinatly into more power... lol but since i want to turbo it, should i switch it to stick first or does it matter?

 

doesnt really matter in the end, both require research if youre going to do it yourself and both require a lot of money to have someone else to do it ^_- but turbo first, will be easier to install

 

hehe all depends on ur tastes... i love my manual because i slam almost all my power strait to the ground... ur loosing power out of ur turbo if u push the power out threw automatic....

 

you lose power out of a turbo just from the fact the cars a vtec, any way you look at it, you can either goto a turbo first, get use to that, then put the standard on, have even more power, or just get a slight gain from doing the swap, then add the turbo and have a crazy amount of power that you most likely wont be able to handle, equal stages vs drastic changes are better usually ^_-

 

alright i've decided to get the turbo first. btw my cars isnt v-tec... i don' t know weather to be happy or sad about it... pro's and con's i guess. lol anyways i'm hearing alot about something called a hondata... sumthing or another... and it goes with turbos. i know its a computer but whats it for?

 

Hondata allows you to tune your car's air/fuel ratios, adjust your vtec, rev limiter and speed governor, boost and nitrous control, and basically anything you'd want to control. It's really nice for boost because it can sense up to 11lbs on the basic models they have (more if you get a better MAP sensor), whereas your stock ECU can't read over like 1lb. It also protects you from potentially destroying your engine by exceeding what your fuel system or engine can handle.

Well, looking into I found a pretty informative page on their site. They can explain it better than I can:
http://hondata.com/featuresboost.html

 

Stock should be able to read about 2 - 3psi, the reason i say this is because if your going 100 miles an hour i think thats around 2 psi depending on how your intake is setup ie ram air style intake

but yes, after market ecu's are very important because other then the fact it evens everything out, it helps with the deficiencies of the stock ecu.