just how small is the turbo?

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Keep hearing everyone say how small the SI's turbo is, but i have yet to learn any dimensions. Does anyone know what the dimensions of our turbo's are? Are turbos even measured in an HxLxW way or is more complex than that?
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I'm no turbo expert but it looks tiny. Search 18900-5PA-A01 on google and you can see a diagram
 

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What he said.

It's a MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) turbo. The main difference between the Si turbo and the EX-T turbo is the turbine wheel (hot side blades). The Si has the same turbine wheel as the CRV which is a 9 blade wheel. Otherwise the two are pretty similar.
 


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and as you can see, the non-Si's have an 11 blade turbine wheel lol
 

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wow, that is small, geez

I immediately had the sound from the Price is Right in my head when someone looses :)
 


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What he said.

It's a MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) turbo. The main difference between the Si turbo and the EX-T turbo is the turbine wheel (hot side blades). The Si has the same turbine wheel as the CRV which is a 9 blade wheel. Otherwise the two are pretty similar.
Sort of confused by your wording. You say that the SI and CRV turbos are the same, with a 9 blade turbine, and the EX-T is different, with a... how many blade turbine wheel?
 

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Sort of confused by your wording. You say that the SI and CRV turbos are the same, with a 9 blade turbine, and the EX-T is different, with a... how many blade turbine wheel?
Non-Si 1.5T Civic has 11 blades.
 

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Glad I found this. I thought the Si and Regualr Civic shared the same turbo engine.
 

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When I took off my downpipe and had a look into the exhaust side of the turbocharger I was slightly depressed.
lol, its what, a 40mm turbo? Pretty sad that the wastegate flapper is bigger than the turbine wheel haha
 

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Glad I found this. I thought the Si and Regualr Civic shared the same turbo engine.
it is basically the same, with some minor differences to increase power
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