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Old 01-10-2006, 03:16 PM
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I have a 99 civic si with the b16a2 in it. I was planning on buying a Greddy bolt on turbo. specific for my car. Now would it make more sense to keep the b16 and turbo it changing ALL internals? Or somebody told me to put a B18 block with the b16 head, then turbo it. what would make the most sense? more horse? what kind of combinations could i do between head and block. I drive this car daily. not far distances but daily. So what do you guys think? No budget. Goal=make it FAST!!!!
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it would make sense to change it but if you engine is working fine i wouldnt bother. plus your only going to be running a greddy kit witch isnt going to make a tremendious amount of power anyways. my vote is stick with your engine and turbo it
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Your b16 bottom end is already built to rev to 8200 I would keep that. Boosting an lsvtec with stock rod bolts revving past 7500 is a time bomb. unless you plan on ARP rod bolts and a few other things, I would just boost the b16. I rode in a boosted si they are fast enough
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yup, waste of an SI if u swap it, sell it, buy a EX swap it, if thats wat you really wanna do, other than that stick with it and boost it
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Default Re: B16a2 Keep it or not? (SPNFEDEJ)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SPNFEDEJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yup, waste of an SI if u swap it, sell it, buy a EX swap it, if thats wat you really wanna do, other than that stick with it and boost it</TD></TR></TABLE>

Good way to put it
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A well put-together and tuned turbo setup will make plenty of power on a relatively stock B16A2.
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thanks guys. what turbo would be the best? and what website do you get it from??
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piece one together. you will be happier and you will get all the parts you want the first go around
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ls/vtec na!!
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Default Re: B16a2 Keep it or not? (EK99dcs)

There would be no problem with boosting your a2. I would buy the turbo, boost 8lbs and then eventually upgrade. You can always pull the swap sell it then upgrade to a gsr! They put down some nice #'s on t tuned stock block!
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EK99dcs &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I was planning on buying a Greddy bolt on turbo.</TD></TR></TABLE>You can easily out perform the greddy kit by putting together your own custom kit. Since money is not an object, you can get any EMS (AEM, Hondata, NepTune, etc.) and there is plenty of evidence on this site that points to the addage "it's all in the tune." PM me if you have questions.

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by -Red- &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You can easily out perform the greddy kit by putting together your own custom kit. Since money is not an object, you can get any EMS (AEM, Hondata, NepTune, etc.) and there is plenty of evidence on this site that points to the addage "it's all in the tune." PM me if you have questions.

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Well put. I strongly agree.
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