i have 95 civic with b18c1 engine it came with 9.1 pistons in it im not sure if i should go turbo or all motor with nos let me know what you guys think.

 

how much you got to spend and how fast do you want to get it built??

 

winter is coming and its about to snow so im taking my time on it i have close to 2000 dollars saved right now i know turbo car are most of the time faster coz i used to own a dsm but im not sure what to do.

 

I have a EG civic coupe with a b18c1 myself with chip, headers, CAI, crazy exhaust setup. For everyday more reliable hp, realiable driving, and a good (not crazy) setup on power it will be all motor. Or you can go to turbo which is more problems, but your get more horsepower, looks and sounds very sexxxxy. If you got the money to back it up to get it tuned and maintain then go to turbo man for sure.

 

build it right and you wont have to worry about turbo problems. What goals do you have? do you want it to be a daily driver with the ability to turn it up a notch and be a weekend warrior? Autocross or 1/4?

I say piece together a kit, and get it tuned.

 

what i was think of doing is put some dc headers cold air intake and few more things but all my friends are telling me you will spend over 1000 bucks and wont get **** for horsepower.

 

my goal for right now is close to 270hp for my civic i used to own a dsm with 380hp i know you will have to spend alot of money to get that on a civic

 

get a nitrous kit, and some 11.5:1 weisco shelf pistons...

 

bump

 

With the compression you quoted, forced induction is going to be the only way to get 270hp out of your car. Be it nitrous or a turbocharger, that's how you'll get there.

 

Go turbo.. You will have to work out some issues here and there but It's all worth it!

 

This isnt going to be what you want to hear but...

Sounds like the guy you bought it from was probably goin to go turbo, i bet it has little power with 9.1 compression but the idea to a lower compression is intended to not crack your cylinder sleeves when the power stroke occurs beeing that NA motors rely on pushing as much fuel and oxygen into the combustion chamber with little room left before ignighting they need a very high compression, while with a turbo, your air is being forced in, and what you can make up some compression by the psi amount you boost, if you get your timing right, you can safely boost around 8 lbs, but ive heard of b18's running 10-16 lbs on stock internals... sounds a bit redicolus to me... id rather spend more to save my motor than skimp on the vitals

All in all, youd be better off pulling those 9.1 compression pistons out, and throwing in some civic type r pistons on top of gsr rods and enjoy that untill you save up enough to reliably boost, then pull your 9.1 pistons out of the shed and just be thankful that you have a head start on your turbo setup, for right now, if that motor feels like we have all gone nuts because we think our hondas are fast its because of the compression ratio

 

yeah i don't have the money write now for an turbo i just lost my job and some of you guys know how college is expensive what i was thinking of doing is trade my turbo Raddy b18c1 for an stock or with few upgrades h22 if anybody is interesting write to elvisi9@aol.com or call me at (515)306-5991 and we can talk thank you all for your help bump