A few weeks back we sent out a few P600 turbochargers to companies for third party testing in an effort to see real-world data such as dyno numbers, track times and reliability. Sean and Mike at Kinetic Autoworks in Maryland were able to offer us a customer’s FK8 Civic Type-R...
PRL Motorsports 1.5 Honda Civic Turbocharger Inlet Pipe Development: Part 2
Yes, you read that correctly - there's a new update to our Turbocharger Inlet Pipe Upgrade for the 1.5L Turbo Honda Civic. While 2020 has been a crazy year to say the least, we have been quietly working behind the scenes to improve our initial design since our last post....
P600 Honda Civic Type-R Drop-In Turbo Development Part 4
Update: Just because we’ve been quiet lately regarding the P600 Turbocharger Upgrade, doesn’t mean we haven’t been moving forward with this project. As some of you may have seen, we installed one of our prototype P600 turbochargers on our 2.0T Accord for future development and to test reliability. Sure, we...
PRL Welcomes a 2020 2.0L Turbo Accord to the Family
New whip, who dis? Today we welcome this 2020 Accord Sport 2.0T into the PRL family. Due to community demand, we will be looking into offering a few more goodies for the 2018+ Accord 2.0T platform. We will also be testing our P600 turbocharger upgrade for fitment, endurance, and maybe...
P600 Honda Civic Type-R Drop-In Turbo Development Part 3
Over the past couple of seemingly long months, we have been working to perfect the turbine housing and final machining of our P600 turbocharger upgrade. Our design team has had to go back to the drawing board a few times to make sure fitment and finish could be consistent. The...
What’s New in the Shop?
As many of you have seen, PRL Motorsports, like most other manufacturers, has been affected tremendously by COVID-19. From supply shortages, to staffing shortages, to the rapid influx of orders and inquires, it has been a struggle to keep up with demand in recent months. Now that we are back...
WISMO - Ecommerce Order Etiquette
So you just placed your order – what should you NOT do? Schedule an Install or Tune: We NEVER recommend scheduling an install or tune before receiving a product to avoid any delay in order fulfillment, transit times, accommodate for damages during shipment, missing components and/or confirming that the correct...
P600 Honda Civic Type-R Drop-In Turbo Upgrade Development Part 2
Even though it may seem like the world is ending, production on our P600 Turbocharger Upgrade for the 2017+ Honda Civic Type-R 2.0T (2018+ Accord and 2019+ RDX) has not stopped. Here are a few more pictures of one of our production-quality, prototype units that we will be testing within...
Open Heart Surgery on our 10th Gen Si (Camshaft Swap)
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Our shop car is undergoing open heart surgery today. We’ve recently been testing our new Setup for 2020 (Motec Systems USA ECU, Garrett - Advancing Motion GTX3076R GEN2, PRL port injection, etc) and quickly realized that Honda’s tiny 1.5L L15B7 is struggling to spool our new turbo (which is currently...
P600 Honda Civic Type-R Drop-In Turbo Development Part 1
As many of you have seen, we began testing a potential drop-in turbocharger upgrade for the FK8 Honda Civic Type-R in July of 2019 . We managed to produce 460+ horsepower and 430+ ft/lbs torque on stock engine and produced close to 500 horsepower with third party testing with our...
A90 MKV Toyota Supra Product Development - Intake & Charge Pipe Upgrade
We have been working on a few goodies for the MKV A90 Supra over the past few months. Here’s a sneak peak of the intake system and charge pipe kit we’ve designed! Our Silicone Inlet Hose Upgrade Kit is designed to replace the restrictive corrugated factory hose with a stronger,...
10th Gen Civic - Let's Talk Intakes
Many of you have probably heard something about our Cobra Cold Air Intake System at one point in time, whether it be factual or something regurgitated inaccurately. We know what you’re thinking – “Not another intake post.” As much as we hate to beat a dead horse, it’s been a...