head has ferrea valve springs and retainers? by the way its a b16 head

 

what all is done to bottom end. Is it all stock or has it been rebuilt and balanced.

On mine I rev it to 8500 daily. My botton end consists of Arias Pistons, Eagle Rods, Stock Crank, OEM honda bearings, Vtec oil and water pumps.

 

as long as the bottom end is built corectly and balanced the head is the limiting factor.

 

the block is being sent out next week to golden eagle. the setup is je 9:1 crower rods, eagle crank, prodrive gear and the rest is stock oem

 

not trying to jack your thread or anything but is a Girdle really necessary. I dont have one installed on my set up and im reving to 8500 with no problems.

 

im not the most knowledgeable on this subject but people that ive talk to seem to be doing fine with stock

 

I have turned my Sleeved 2.0L LSVTEC Fully built with a girdle to 9800 many times

 

thats sick.. what kind of #s u making?

 

I have dynoed it one time one run just to see if my street tuning was good and it was 338 at 10psi untuned at 12.5 to 11.8 A/F

 

Im planning on taking my 2.0 LS/Vtec to 9500 very regularly...my bottom end cosists of the following:

Benson sleeved b18a
CP 84mm pistons
Manley/FR rods
AEBS head and main studs
Endyn Block girdle
LS crank (balenced)

 

My N/A lsvtec went to 9300 all day no problems

Shotpeened LS rods
ARP rod bolts
ITR outer valve springs/Portlfow inner
Portlfow ti-retainers
Balanced LS crank

No girdle, no oil squirters

 

I rev mine to 9K with boost

 

my boy bought the ferrea valve springs, retainers and *spring seats*. the kit says that it's necessary to have the spring seats if your using their S & R's.

two weeks after dyno tuning my boy broke a valve spring causing one of his JUN cams to break. luckly, nothing else broke. two weeks after re-building another spring broke and he dropped a valve. his motor was ruined. Fordged pistons, cams and a perfectly good GSR block was ruined. we spoke to the people at ferrea and they were no help at all.

we spoke to tech's at Ferrea before he bought the valvetrain kit becuz we wanted to be certain that there would be no problems with the JUN cams.

btw, the car was raced 2-3 time with a moderate rev limit of 8,600rpm and he was cruising on the hwy every time the valvetrain broke.

i'm posting this so that you can be causious.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Killer_B &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">my boy bought the ferrea valve springs, retainers and *spring seats*. the kit says that it's necessary to have the spring seats if your using their S & R's.

two weeks after dyno tuning my boy broke a valve spring causing one of his JUN cams to break. luckly, nothing else broke. two weeks after re-building another spring broke and he dropped a valve. his motor was ruined. Fordged pistons, cams and a perfectly good GSR block was ruined. we spoke to the people at ferrea and they were no help at all.

we spoke to tech's at Ferrea before he bought the valvetrain kit becuz we wanted to be certain that there would be no problems with the JUN cams.

btw, the car was raced 2-3 time with a moderate rev limit of 8,600rpm and he was cruising on the hwy every time the valvetrain broke.

i'm posting this so that you can be causious. </TD></TR></TABLE>

thanx for the advice im gonna look into that and call ferrea for info

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 25 PSI CRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I rev mine to 9K with boost</TD></TR></TABLE>

just curious what turbo and what kind of #s are u pulling?