Honda Car Forum

I might buy 2002 Civic SI near me that already has a turbo and supercharger in it. The dealer showed me it's service records. It's been properly maintained and well taken care of thus far, and also has a clean CarFax report.My only concern is the twincharge setup was put in shortly after the car was first purchased brand new, and now the car isn't far from 85k miles. I've test driven it and it seems fine now, but are it's best miles already behind it?

It's most likely past it's prime. Only the previous owner(s) know how hard it's been driven. And such performance modifications only add to the wear.

You better hope they did it right because thats one complicated setup. If something goes wrong its big money to fix.

If it's been driven hard, you might be able to drive it off the lot.

Well lets see it in this forum the reason the car was sold? Probably problems. First the car is running of a supercharger mostly likely a Jackson Racing one takes over the intake manifold area, or a Vortech style which looks like a turbo but with belts attach to it. That alone is putting strain on every single part of the motor, trans and axles items. Then the car is turbo add more to this mix. And you need this to be your daily correct. So your SC boost 6pounds and your turbo 6pounds. Doing the match 12pounds but not all 12pounds get to the S/C since S/C takes over the intake part you probably see 8-10lbs of boost give or take.Now you didn't state if the car had forge items and or if it has an aftermarket clutch axles fuel injectors and ingiton system. What is the fuel management AEM or FMU? All these question are important is it tune? How long has it been boosted? Did you take to another shop to take alook at it.I personally wouldn't get it because the fact that it has S/C and Turbo at the same time not sure how good the install was and if it was good I'm pretty sure it be kinda of a famous Honda in a magazine or something. If it was either or SC or turbo it would be a great buy. And how much are they asking?

I would take it to a high performance specialty shop because with that kind of setup it's real easy to mess it up. Have the mechanic go over it and see what he says. If I had to guess though, I would more than likely say that you may just want to move on from this one.

you want to know. If you drive like I know you will. About half way down the street and loose control racing another retard. taking out someone that was just going home. PLEASE no more unsafe cars with drivers to match

hey guys, I'm looking to buy a 1986 Civic SI hatchback, do you guys have any clue what the life expectancy on one would be? The current miles on it are 250,000.

I know that my family's 91 Accord has 279,000, and is still going strong, but I'm not sure if the same applies to an older model.

Any help would be appreciated.