Hondavid

I am a bit of a n00b when it comes to some of the motor capabilities, I know that there are several variants of the B18, but I just don't see how this is possible:

"i got a friend who has a civic hatch that runs 11.07 @ 126 all day, stock bottom end with 85,000 miles on it, has been track driven for 5 years straight no internal problems whatsoever yet... thats at around 400 whp"

This is from another forum... I just don't believe this at all, at least not from a reliability aspect. Certainly a person can get a motor to 400 hp, but the question is how many times can you run that motor hard before it pops? Isn't the highest safe amount of HP on a B18 considerably lower than that?

MonkeyMagic

i don't doubt it. 11.0 passes really only require the lower side of 350 hp.

the b18b is decently stout from the factory. it doesn't rev that high either so that takes a ton of stress of rotating assemblies.

b18c's (b18c1, gsr, or sir-g variant) are stout as hell too.. factory block girdle.. but a bit higher compression so a greater degree of tuning is required to extract safe high-boost numbers

b18c's (b18c5, or type r) have even higher compression, are generally over rated, and should be pointed at and laughed there upon. but can still be boosted into the 300s no problem. again, tuning

full-race did a thing probably 6 years ago where they wanted to see exactly how much power they could get out of a bone-stock gsr before it popped. i think they ended up with something lik 430hp... raced it on the street and track for a good solid season.

JJtegfan14

i have a integra pretty stock besides a few mods here and there

but i'm running a jrsc at 8psi and i just bought the boost upgrade to 11psi

i'm getting it tuned to a hondata s300 and also changing out my injectors with the ones that come with the kit

so am i running a safe set up