Thinking of geting a Gude Head Package for a d16z6- Any reviews or comments.
I want to stay with the underdog sohc vtec but want to add a good amount of power without going broke. I would swap a b series but trying stay in my budget. I was also thing of doing a greddy turbo kit but dont want to have to worrie about reliability and tuning. Any help would be great

 

I looked into them quite a while ago. There have been mixed feeling on the Gude/Bullfrog head packages, most of which seem to stem from "shady" customer service.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=623423
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=397375
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=333191


My thread from way back when
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=283352

There are a bunch more. Just search for Gude under archived in the EG+ forum.

 

I just got finished building my d16z6 for high- compression and nitrous w/ crower valvetrain and have yet to run it, but after spending a shitload of money to build a sohc motor, I could have made twice the power with half the money by going turbo. Not to be a little all motor bitc*, but power is power. So if you're on a budget building a z6 and you want to get good power, I would turbo the motor. I did a lot of studying for turbos that work w/ d16z6 flow, through compressor maps, and found that the garret t3 w/ .60 trim compressor wheel is perfect for mostly stock z6's and are relatively cheap. Just my $.02.

 

thanks ,any more!

 

Everybody in SD was running GUDE head packages in the early 90's on their SOHC and SOHC/VTEC motors. They seemed to do pretty well, using high compression, big cam, and a ton of timing on their ECU's. I never liked their DOHC/VTEC stuff, but the SOHC kits were pretty nice. Bill Gude spent a lot of time at a small local shop, so no one ever had any problems with his customer service, but I've read a few bad things here and there.