One night while out I "met" up with a B18/manual trans teggy.  He had the usual CAI, lowered, filled/solid mounts...  At that time I was near stock (all I had was a Cheap CAI) and the little t25 was huffing oil.  Not surprised I got my ass handed to me.
Time goes on then I happen to see the same car out at the same spot with added mods (IIRC header, ported head, tune, and weight reduction etc etc) . 
I upgraded the turbo (lets say it's a lot larger than the t25  ;) ) , installed a ffp UDP, solid mounts, 3" exhaust no mufflers, tune, CAI, bigger IC, 1.6 rockers and a rebuilt trans. 
We were even from a dig, then as soon as it spooled I was gone leaving the poor kid by 5-7 car lengths.  I am sorta bias for the turbo lag that I have.  It helps me gain traction with the stock gen 2 power from a stop then about 10' out of the hole the turbo starts to spool.  At that time the tires break loose roasting rest of 1st,  spinning second and then sometimes chirp or spinning 3rd.  With DR's or slicks that dont happen, but with these cheap tires they just don't grip. 
Of course this is just a "story" that everyone knows comes from Mexico.   :icon_wink:

thats pretty sweet , have you taken it to the track?  Got any pics?   I raced a turbo ac the other day from 40mph roll, first time he was out, second time i pulled on him pretty good but he finally caught up and had about 2 cars on me,  rolls down his window and says hes makin 400 hp .... im in my stock GP with about 220... for claiming to have double the hp, i dont think i did that bad....  i have a video of me flooring it while taping my buddys gt30r h22 civic , that car has 454 to the wheels!  Ill get the video up later....talk about turbo lag.

Quote from: TGed on July 20, 2008, 02:25:50 AM
One night while out I "met" up with a B18/manual trans teggy.  He had the usual CAI, lowered, filled/solid mounts...  At that time I was near stock (all I had was a Cheap CAI) and the little t25 was huffing oil.  Not surprised I got my ass handed to me.
Time goes on then I happen to see the same car out at the same spot with added mods (IIRC header, ported head, tune, and weight reduction etc etc) . 
I upgraded the turbo (lets say it's a lot larger than the t25  ;) ) , installed a ffp UDP, solid mounts, 3" exhaust no mufflers, tune, CAI, bigger IC, 1.6 rockers and a rebuilt trans. 
We were even from a dig, then as soon as it spooled I was gone leaving the poor kid by 5-7 car lengths.  I am sorta bias for the turbo lag that I have.  It helps me gain traction with the stock gen 2 power from a stop then about 10' out of the hole the turbo starts to spool.  At that time the tires break loose roasting rest of 1st,  spinning second and then sometimes chirp or spinning 3rd.  With DR's or slicks that dont happen, but with these cheap tires they just don't grip. 
Of course this is just a "story" that everyone knows comes from Mexico.   :icon_wink:

What turbo do you have in it? I want to get Jimmy into a bigger turbo then the T25 or T28. I think he would like a little lag I just don't have him sold. He has been in my 2.2 with a T3 and he seems to like it but with a 4 cylinder 2.2 the turbo doesn't come into 2500 but when it does it spools good. I keep telling him with the 3.1 it should spool lower
Tim

I have not taken it too the track yet, maybe I will try harder this season to get there though since I did sink a lot of time/money in it this time around!  lol  Pics, I might have some OLD t25 pics, but none of current setup.  When I go and change insurance policies I will snap a couple of pics since I want to insure what I have done.

If and when I can up my boost to see what I can get this turbo to do I will say what it is... until then I don't want to throw out the info and have people waste there time/money on a turbo that I MIGHT be able to use.  Also remember, I have SOME additional mods (some are not mentioned, but they are not really all that great for a gen 2) in hopes for better spool up and better flow.