d15bdelsol

okay a purchased my 93 del sol s about a year ago. the car had 133,000 miles when bought and the guy told me his son had blown the old motor so they put another one in that he said had around 50k on it. he said they put the exact same motor in and i looked at it and it had the plain d15 valve cover and i looked at the engine code and it said d15b and i thought that was the stock motor until i just recently read those motors are vtec and got 130hp. and i also read my car came with a d15b7 but my car dosn't feel like vtec at all and its rev limiter is 6700 which is 500 lower than just redline of d15b. so im really confused on what i got any help would be appreciated.

anavrin351

i have a d15b7 in my civic and my rev limiter is close to that. redline is at 6500, but the limiter seems to kick in a bit past that. and its not a v-tec motor atleast mines not. it has a lot more power after 4000 RPM but not like a v-tec

d15bdelsol

yeah mines the exact same way at 4000 it feel like a vtec but i know that its not and my redline is 6400 just like a d15b7 but the block says just d15b. so i looked into the specs and the red line for that motor is supposed to be 7200. my only guess is that i have the original non vtec head on the vtec block.

reply to 95dsol: i know for a fact i have a d15b. not d15b7. it says it clearly next to the tranny, i guess its just not a vtec one but i did just find out from someone that a d16z6 head will work fine on my block so ill probably go wit that


Modified by d15bdelsol at 7:40 PM 4/15/2007

95dsol

no that wouldent work stock that is ... and u have a d15b7 im sure sounds like vtec at 4000 because its a dual stage intake manifold it dosent open all the way till 4000 rpm i have the same car del sol s wit a d15b7

2.2coupe

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by d15bdelsol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah mines the exact same way at 4000 it feel like a vtec but i know that its not and my redline is 6400 just like a d15b7 but the block says just d15b. so i looked into the specs and the red line for that motor is supposed to be 7200. my only guess is that i have the original non vtec head on the vtec block.

reply to 95dsol: i know for a fact i have a d15b. not d15b7. it says it clearly next to the tranny, i guess its just not a vtec one but i did just find out from someone that a d16z6 head will work fine on my block so ill probably go wit that


Modified by d15bdelsol at 7:40 PM 4/15/2007</TD></TR></TABLE>

well if you aculy want to hit V-TEC i have a D16y8 head and everything else, do a mini-me swap.. put my head on your block, its like a d16y8 but with a little more compression.

2.2coupe

[QUOTE=d15bdelsol]
but i did just find out from someone that a d16z6 head will work fine on my block so ill probably go wit thatQUOTE]

D16y8 head is alot beter,mine has 116,xxx miles on it