piston and rod replacement
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Re: piston and rod replacement (mrxracing)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mrxracing »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if i were to replace my pistons, rods, ring etc. with better stuff
can i get a good hp gain without going oversized?
95ls</TD></TR></TABLE>
This is a pretty weird question actually. I'll try to help.
When you swap pistons and rods (provided you don't change the size), you aren't gaining any power. Provided you go with forged pistons and rods, the only thing you are doing is strengthening the motor. Afterwards you can install more power adders with less risk of damaging the motor. But, you are making no extra power with just replacing your pistons/rods/rings. (That is unless your rings were shot to hell and you were running basically no compression
)
You have the option of getting different compression pistons. This will effectively raise/lower your compression. In turn, this MIGHT create power, depending on what your goal is.
And talking about oversized pistons, Honda doesn't recommend anything more than a 81.5mm bore piston on their stock sleeves (after boring out 20 over). That doesn't really bring your displacement up enough to feel anything. If you sleeve it, you can effectively go to 84mm. That (I think) brings the displacement up to 2.0L.
I won't get into details after that....it all depends on what you want to do in the end. But I hope I answered your question.
can i get a good hp gain without going oversized?
95ls</TD></TR></TABLE>
This is a pretty weird question actually. I'll try to help.
When you swap pistons and rods (provided you don't change the size), you aren't gaining any power. Provided you go with forged pistons and rods, the only thing you are doing is strengthening the motor. Afterwards you can install more power adders with less risk of damaging the motor. But, you are making no extra power with just replacing your pistons/rods/rings. (That is unless your rings were shot to hell and you were running basically no compression
)You have the option of getting different compression pistons. This will effectively raise/lower your compression. In turn, this MIGHT create power, depending on what your goal is.
And talking about oversized pistons, Honda doesn't recommend anything more than a 81.5mm bore piston on their stock sleeves (after boring out 20 over). That doesn't really bring your displacement up enough to feel anything. If you sleeve it, you can effectively go to 84mm. That (I think) brings the displacement up to 2.0L.
I won't get into details after that....it all depends on what you want to do in the end. But I hope I answered your question.
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