Gave up on the A20...

[God]

I'm not seeing how an A20 tranny will handle 375HP at the wheels. What did JohhnyO do to his to make it work?

The other thing to think about here is support; which by that I mean tuning and other knowledge about the motor you will be running. Whatever motor you run will need to be built and tuned by someone who knows what they are doing. So I would talk to whomever will be doing this work and see what they are familiar with. If they think they can boost an A20 to those levels reliably, then yeah, go for it. But if they don't have any experience with a boosted A20 and they end up roasting the motor during tuning, how good a decision was the A20 then? And who will end up paying for this mistake? Not the tuner I assure you.

As cool as a turbo A20 would be, it will be harder to find competent support for.

C|

My point exactly


And as far as a H22 I have no respect for that motor I have had very bad luck with those(88 CRX with a H22, and a 92 Accord with a H22) and will not ever put one in one of my cars.

[Low_Rida]

My point exactly


And as far as a H22 I have no respect for that motor I have had very bad luck with those(88 CRX with a H22, and a 92 Accord with a H22) and will not ever put one in one of my cars.

i have never actually droped an H22 before but i have heard some good things about them.

[God]

Im not say the H22 isnt a good motor im just saying i never had good luck with them. I know this is going to sound weird but I have never had a B16 powered car and I think that the 3G would be a good car to put one in and as far as the mounts the shop said they can know they could get them made for around 600 the engine package im getting comes with a wiring harness and i will just run in OBD-0 for awhile to get all the bugs worked out then im going to get the hondata P28 with the s300 chip then build the motor with turbo... but since you guys are saying that I can get into the 11s with a A20 on the streets I would like to see links to some of these super high powered A20 powered accords thanks oh and where do you get a LSD for the A20 and what tranny is in our 3G's anyway

[Low_Rida]

i have had a B16 and a B18, i liked the B18 better [this was in a civic] good thing about civics is they drop in a hella lot easier than a 3G

[2drSE-i]

I'm not seeing how an A20 tranny will handle 375HP at the wheels. What did JohhnyO do to his to make it work?

C|

JohnnyO Solved his own problems. He had a tranny adapter plate made that allowed him to run B-series trannys.

[89T]

i believe that was haveanosday that ran the adapter plate for the b series trans, as far as i know johnnyo was running a stock tranny. I have had multiple conversations with him on the subject...He assured me that he was running a stock tranny.

"god" i am running a phantom grip lsd..

[MessyHonda]

I'm not seeing how an A20 tranny will handle 375HP at the wheels. What did JohhnyO do to his to make it work?

The other thing to think about here is support; which by that I mean tuning and other knowledge about the motor you will be running. Whatever motor you run will need to be built and tuned by someone who knows what they are doing. So I would talk to whomever will be doing this work and see what they are familiar with. If they think they can boost an A20 to those levels reliably, then yeah, go for it. But if they don't have any experience with a boosted A20 and they end up roasting the motor during tuning, how good a decision was the A20 then? And who will end up paying for this mistake? Not the tuner I assure you.

As cool as a turbo A20 would be, it will be harder to find competent support for.

C|

he made a adapter plate...but he was running in the 9s

with a b-series trans

[89T]

i copy/pasted some pms from johnnyO and got a link for haveanosday.
http://www.honda-tech.com/showpost.p...22&postcount=1

i almost forgot to ask.
what trans were you running with you'r a20?
i am barly at 234hp/224 torque, and the trans is just not holding up.
once i get the head work done i want to turn the boost up to 20 or 30#'s or about 450-500hp,but i am affraid that i will just keep burning up transmission's.
any advice you can give me? i would appreciate any help!

I used the stock trans. what are you burning up in the tranny?

well when i changed the trans oil there were alote of shavings, and the oil was a greenish in color.
my guess is that the syncros are taking a beating.
in order to get any traction i have to do a 2nd gear burnout on drag radials at 12psi tire pressure.
I never had a problem with the trans till i started doing the 2nd gear burnouts. on a hard launch i grab for 2nd and nothing, it wont go in.
third gear is starting to grind when i go in to gear also. I also have some movement in the final drive gear at the axles.
the trans needs to be rebuilt at this point but i figured i would give you a shout to see what you did to handle the power before i did anything.

I also used just honda tranny fuild, but it sounds like the syncros are gone. you should take it apart inspect the sync. and the gears quite throughly.i used to do second and third gear burnouts and it has no effects on the syncros

[SOHC]

whats the point of having links to pictures that dont work?

[89T]

it seem's to me they worked 9 months ago when the link was posted.