civic dx

This is not mine, its my friends week old b16 swap.
mods were
-AEBS intake manifod
-ITR cams
-JDMSHIT vision chipped p28
-Hondata intake gasket

Twenty36_1

That sucks man. Thanks though as I was about to run my ctr cam with b16 valvesprings. I was only gonna use the stock rev limit even though everyone says it is safe I would rather wait and do it right the first time.

civic dx

i think this happend around 8k

93lsd

i dont think it was the cams, it was the driver i have put many itr and ctr cams in stock b16 and gsr heads with no problem and with stock rev limit and too this day still running, i think it was your friends shift point or a mis shift..

Waachback

There is no problem with running itr cams on a stock b16 valve train if you keep the stock rev limit. Something weird happened there though...What was his rev limit?

grenthang

That was my motor and i never did shift into 4th gear i was almost at 8 grand in third gear and it just let out a booom. But it was an first gen b16 with single sring valve springs in there.

civic dx

rev limit was at 8,500 unless his chip was fucked up. i think he was shifting it at 8k though. it blew in the top of third gear, around 8k.

91sihatchback

, keep in mind that first gen b16's are weaker than 2nd gen's, which are most of the motors these people are talking about...if you guys for some reason need any help let me know, if you need a ride the ef has yo back,good luck man

93lsd

what do you mean single spring all stock b-series have dual intake and single ext, back in the day i would take my ctr cams stock b16 head too 8,500 all day long,

91sihatchback

haha i just saw his sig

1 2 NV

definitely something wrong besides the cams. ive had ITR cams in 2 seperate heads. one a GSR w/stock springs, the other a B16 w/stock springs. both at one point or another ran a ITR ECU w/8600redline and i used it religiously. needless to say both motors/heads survived. u had other issues im sure.
so to further this, dont post misleading info regarding ITR cams cause they are a great cam for a beginner and should have no problems w/stock B16/GSR valvetrain.

StyleTEG

I wouldn't bet my motor on it

Reving higher is NOT the only reason to upgrade your valvesprings. Higher lift cams will cause weaker springs to coil bind, regardless of rev limit.

Newman

Nothing wrong with the ITR cams. Just looks like you (your friend) floated the valves as the old B16 springs were old and couldn't keep up with the valves opening & closing fast enough. Therefore the value dropped into the piston and the pics explain the rest of the story. Sucks, but the only way to have prevented that would have been to upgrade the valve springs but there wouldn't have really been any easy way to tell that your valve train would give out in a short period of time.

grenthang

Yeah thats what i was thinking the valve springs where just to old and decide to drop the valve but i love the itr cams and there going in my next b16 build.

yeegsr

oh man, im sorry dude...pictures worth million words..

@ries

Holy chit!

gregor

I was runing ITR cams on my B16 head (stock) for 18 months with rew limit on 9200 rpm - it was o.k.

hondaeg8

damn...that sucks.

i seriously doubt it was because of the cam though. it was either because the valve springs were just too old or maybe over reving. i read about tons of people putting the ITR/CTR cams in a stock b16 or gsr head with no problems with the stock valve train. they even go a little higher on the revlimit with no problems.

i plan on getting a CTR intake cam for my motor soon....i think.

just get a jdm b16 longblock from hmotorsonline.

OLM-02R

dang....

civic2slo

running ctr cams with no probs, even with mis-shifts to 9,000+ rpms .
The first gen b16a was probably tired. Just like with all engines it gets worned and it will break. Think of the abuse it had before it got into your hands, it is a used engine with unknown mileage and it 13+ years old...a related issue, tired valve springs=valve float=smacked piston. Or valve adjustment error (it happens).
sorry about your engine goodluck on your second one.

HRED

I don't think it was springs fault but more retainers. I already same issue on FULL stock first B16A engine.
first and second B16A have same valve springs but have different retainers ! second gen B16A have same retainers as ITR/CTR

RobbieG35

I have used 01 ITR cams on my stock valvetrain 1st gen B16 for over a year, shifting at 8400, and an ocassional 9K with my other ECU, no problems here

Runnerdown

Yeah that should'nt come apart like that at 8k. A friends first gen B16 saw 9k plus a few times with ctr cams and pistons.

Big Teggie

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That is pretty stupid

BERT-O

Funny, I ran CTR cams (which is the same thing as USDM ITR cams) for over 50,000 miles about 4 years ago. This was in a 1st gen B16a. I think the motor itself had over 60k when I purchased it.

AGAIN PEOPLE, DON'T REV THE MOTOR PASS ITS LIMIT, I.E. 8K RPM OR HIGHER