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building up an 05 sunfire
Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:47 AM
i just picked up a low mile 05 sunfire (under 60K) and have been reading through several of the ecotech forums (http://www.ecotecforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1024) and was hoping to get some help from the people here about what to put on it.

i plan to use it as a daily driver but don't mind to much about gas mileage. I want to run a turbo vs a s/c just out of personal preference. i want to keep it cheap i know i can get a turbo cheap from one of the guys i work with, he has it left over from when he tuned 4th gen civics.

last car i had was a 4th gen civic with a 1.6L and 4spd auto ran it pretty stock since the tranny was going out on it. what surprised me was the jump from that thing to the sunfire nice performance boost and that civic was no slouch.

the sunfire is a base model with the 2.2 ecotech, 4spd auto, (i wanted a manual but couldn't find one) and no ABS/TCS

i plan to do the work myself so try and keep it simple for me please.

main questions i have

what parts
what would the best bang for the buck setup on this
and what do i do about flashing the ECM
does this have a limiter on it?

2005 Sunfire 2.2L ecotec
stock for now turbo for later

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