meece0927

The engine in my 94 Civic has a d16y8 block with a d15y7 head. My friend did the swap before I bought the car and I did not know how it was going to perform. The head was just rebuilt and I am just not starting to break it in. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get more HP out of the engine. It has a VTEC block and I am thinking about doing a full VTEC swap. Any ideas.

grumblemarc

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Turbocharge it or nothing.

doctorake

Your options for more power are boost it or swap it to a different motor.

grumblemarc

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BTW. Technically there is no such this as a VTEC block. VTEC is in the head.

meece0927

Cant charge that engine its not built for it. I am going to dry some different things to see what I can get out of it.

grumblemarc

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Sure you can. You can boost a lawn mower if you wanted to.

And when I tell you that you will be wasting your time and money to get any more power out of that engine N/A, I know what i'm talking about.

meece0927

Its a strong engine and tranny only having 90,000 miles on the block and tranny and the head just being rebuilt. I am going to see what I can get without charging for right now.

grumblemarc

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Not much. But knock yourself out.

meece0927

You would be surprised wat I have got out of those engines without alot of modification.

xTyFighterx

^ how surprised?

meece0927

I had a 2000 honda civic that had just a straight d series 1.6 barley did any mods to it changed it to 5 speed, cat back exhaust, intake manifold, short ram intake, and a throttle body spacer and it surprised the hell out of me.

doctorake

Please post dyno sheets of proof, otherwise your butt dyno is lying to you.

B_Swapped93

im guessing you had/were driving a stock dx prior to the bolt on civic you're talking about. or have never tried a civic with a B or K in it

xTyFighterx

you should drive somthing with actual power and then you will realize it wasnt that surprising

meece0927

It does wat I want it to do that's all I care about was just looking for suggestions.

xTyFighterx

thats good only way to get more power is turbo bud bolt ons wont do much its been brought up countless times

B_Swapped93

Turbo or swap it. this comes up at least once every 2 days

apexi_rsx

like everyone said go knock yourself out paying $50+ per hp gained. boosting is only about 25 per hp gained. a boosted D would knock your socks off.

xTyFighterx

or more

meece0927

I would like to boost it in the future just dont have the time or cash right now to get the engine ready for boost and will never through spray to it I hate that ****.

xTyFighterx

then save your coin for that day

EFfin Sedan 91

Seriously why did you ask for suggestions and then just shoot everyone down when they told you what you didn't want to hear? Bolt-ons do nothing. you might get 5 horsepower at most. The only thing that you could bolt on is a new head with vtec and even that wont get you much.