Fumanchu

Im getting my FD next week and want to install a bov on it. The only mod that the car has is cat-back exhaust. No other mods will be installed after that.

Can I run a bov on my stock FD? I know I wont get any performance off of it but I just miss the sound of a bov that I had on my Civic. Also, the bov I am planning on getting is the Greddy Type S. Will this hurt my engine at all? ie..will it make my boost go higher than 10psi or make it too lean???

Thanks for helping.

Recipe7

there is already a bov on the car

if your only looking for the sound, the stock should make you smile and tickle

Fumanchu

I know stock it has one but I miss the sound of my Greddy. Also it is an automatic which I heard doesn't blow off as hard b/c you never really lift ur foot off the accelerator. The one time I test drove it, there was too much traffic in LA to get on the car past 5 grand. When I go back this weekend, I will take it to redline and see if it blows off hard.

I dont care about the performance of this car, I am making it a show car and convert it close to JDM specs as I can.

I just dont want to blow the car up being its my only form of transportation for a little while.

Icemastr

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BOV dont affect boost, they arent going to make your car boost more or less, all they do is release the charged air from the turbocharger cold side that is going into the intake manifold so that when you let off the gas (throttle body closes) the air vented out instead of forcing its way back through the turbos causing turbine damage. The reason you couldn't hear it probably is because stock the BOV is vented back into the air box instead of the atmosphere. All you have to do to put the greddy BOV on is put a hose from the Greddy BOV to where the hose for the sock BOV connects to the turbocharger assembly and hook up the small vacumn line hose to the greddy BOV and your set. You will hear the BOV plenty loud if you get on the gas and let off at 3K RPM even with an automatic.

Good luck making your car JDM as the only real difference between the JDM and US Market version is the RHD vs. LHD. Unless your talking about getting the the S8 bumper and spoiler and 99+ turbos.

NorthwindHost

Actually, there is an easier alternative. There is a throttlebody from greddy that has the BOV option available.

This will make it so its pretty much bolt on.

NorthwindHost

Edit: I am pretty sure you are aware. I forgot to add that you need to add a vacuum hose to it. =)

Fumanchu

Actually there are lots of things that are different between JDM and US Spec. You get judged at shows by how far you have taken it and the quality at which you do it. More than likely this is what I am going to do...'99 spec bumper and lights, '99 rims, '99 wing, 2+2 conversion, and JDM hood of sorts (havn't decided yet). If it comes down to it, I might get the whole front clip from a JDM and convert my RX7 to RHD. A guy in my car club did it on a Fairlady(300zx).

It may sound hard but remember I am in a very successful show car club in California and pretty much have anything at my disposal.

Thanks for the help with the bov.

theorie

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a "show car" ?? you mean body kit and lights and rims and ****? thats not a show car.

dude you better not rice it out.

anyway, just do like i did and vent the stock BOV. my friend has the turbo XS bov (the one with the horn on it) and i swear mine is just as loud. even at 100mph on the interstate i can still hear it blow off when i let off. and just driving down the highway its so freaking loud. just make sure to cap off the airbox if you do this:

WaLieN

When you did that, what did you use to plug up the hole that was remaining on the intake tube?

theorie

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a copper cap that i jammed in the short hose, with a hose clamp to keep it in place.

Fumanchu

I guess lots of you guys have never been to a hardcore import car show.

Did I say body kit, rims, lights and ****? No I didnt. Read the post before you comment. I said keeping it stock JDM. Show just means that I am converting to JDM and redoing the interior so it's perfect.

Everybody is so quick to flame on this forum. Look I mention one word "show" and I get accused of rice'ing my car.

theorie

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no man, i just know a guy who said he was going the JDM path, and his car ended up w/ a veilside bodykit HAHAHAHAHAHHA


---edit---

i mean a REPLICA veilside body kit, the ebay special - THE INVADER is what they call it i think. hahahahha

Fumanchu

Ohh ok sorry. I am just little annoyed right now with some of the comments I see people posting. Its like everybody has something to prove in here.

Thanks for help on the bov Fujikuro....I will try that before I buy a Greddy.

Icemastr

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You must not have understood what I said, your car is already just like the JDM version, for its year. The parts you said you were adding key word 99+. They're have been 2 different slight "updates" for the RX-7 in Japan, 92-96 is just like we have in the US, then 97-98 then 99+, then there are the Special edition A-Spec, and the SpirtR. I have been to a few car shows, hopefully next summer I will have time to attend a couple more but I think I will skip HIN because its just like goin clubbin except their are a couple nice cars, lots of gawdy cars, and tons of gay stuff and you cant even see them anyways since the lights are off. Converting an RX-7 to JDM is not like converting a 240SX to a S14 or S15 etc. It just seems stupid to me to convert your car to look like the JDM version, it still isn't JDM, but if you like how it looks then go ahead and do it. If you like how the 99+ body looks (which I wouldnt mind having the front bumper on my car) then do it. If you want to do real well on the show circuit get a 99+ front clip and a rear spoiler, it will cost you about $2000-$3000 to buy possibly even with the powertrain, and 1500+ or so to have it all installed, getting your car repainted show quality will probably the killer. Think about it this way, this like taking a 95-96 Eclipse and putting the 97-99 Eclipse front bumper on because it looks nicer.

Fumanchu

Man some of the guys on here **** me off. My original question was about a bov and people are arguing with me about going JDM.

Not even going to go ahead with the thread. It will just turn out like every other thread in this forum with rice and domestic yelling.

moehler

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The stock BOV is quite loud. If sound is all you want, the stock one should do the job. Mine vents to my Apex'i intake and is very loud. If your keeping the stock aur box, and you want more sound, just vent it into the engine bay like fujikuro showed.

If a catback is the only mod you are going to have on the car, you might want to consider the benifits of a boost gauge, downpipe, AST, and radiator. Do a search for reliabilty mods, I think every FD owner should cosider these
'mods' for their car.

Fumanchu

Already planned and have parts for Reliability mods. But thanks anyways.

And I am going to try venting the stock bov. I just miss the distinct sound of the Greddy.

Mahjik

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JDMrx7,

There is no reason you can't put the GReddy BOV on your car if you want it. It's your car, do as you want.

I'm not sure if GReddy has a kit for the RX-7 or not. If not, you'll have to find a way to mount it. If everything else on your car is stock, that could prove troublesome as you won't have any hard pipes to mount it on. You could use that as an excuse to also get the GReddy polished intake elbow and then mount it to that.

Jasooner

You want the Greddy Type S? That's the BOV I have. I didn't know if they had a kit or not, so I just went ahead and got the polished intake elbow with the BOV flange prewelded on. Here's pics of them.

http://www.geocities.com/kingtuna15/...greddybov1.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/kingtuna15/...reddyelbow.jpg

I think you have to cut and paste on a new window because Yahoo's pretty gay like that

Mahjik is right, it's your car, your money, do with them as you see fit. Don't get so heated when you hear criticisms. Opinions are opinions.

NorthwindHost

Hey Jasooner, if possible can you tell me if the installation was easy for it?

I am gonna get it pretty soon, but want to make sure the installation is seemless.

Jasooner

Geez, the install is so easy it's not even funny. Only thing that became a problem was capping off the nipple on the Y pipe when removing the old factory BOV. Also, my old gaskets were junk so I got new ones. I found 3/4" rubber caps at autozone for $2 and hose clamps for another $2. I used those to cap off my intake nipple and the y pipe nipple. You can see what the overall engine looks like on my webpage.

NorthwindHost

hehe figured.