I just wanted to see how many miles peoples lsvtec motors are lasting.

Ive heard they dont last as long because of the r/s ratio but i wanted to hear from some peaple with first hand experiance.

 

ifyou do it right it will last just as long as a normal b18 c,b or a b16

 

I know how long an engine will last is a direct reflection of how well it was built.
I wanted to hear from actual lsvtec owners and how long there motors have lasted.

 

10k+ on last one, new one hasn't been driven in 6 months b/c i dont have a tranny.

 

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what happened to the first one?

 

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what happened to the first one?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Nothin' it was just a half assed build and i wanted somethin better

 

around 15k on mines

 

sweet any one else

 

My brother has a stock bottom end ls/Vtec that has 14,000 miles of abuse with a 50 shot of nitrous! It still runs fine. just make sure you have it tuned and it should last.

 

0 miles on mine

 

wild b16 head stock bottom end still goes to 9 every once in a while been almost a year UNTUNED

 

Keep 'em coming....Im always hearing about all these unreliable LSVTEC motors. Im pretty sure if you don't pound on the motor and build it up nice, it'll last.

 

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hell yes.

and this one, this one kills me. i love it!! stock bottom end baby...
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i bought this head from this guy in cali for 1700 and i just put it on my motor that had 40000 miles. the guy said the head would make most power at 11000 to 12000. It was p&p dual springs itr cams titanium valves. and retainers. So i put it on with aebs head studs and golden eagle ls vtec kit and a aebs intake mani AEM air intake full MSD ignition and let her fly!!!!!!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 4doorhybrid &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i bought this head from this guy in cali for 1700 and i just put it on my motor that had 40000 miles. the guy said the head would make most power at 11000 to 12000. It was p&p dual springs itr cams titanium valves. and retainers. So i put it on with aebs head studs and golden eagle ls vtec kit and a aebs intake mani AEM air intake full MSD ignition and let her fly!!!!!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

I bet those itr cams make awesome power at 11-12k rpm's

 

Is 15,000 miles supposed to be impressive or something? If its a daily driven car, 15,000 miles is equivalent to anything from 6 months to a year depending on how often/far the car is driven. If you only got 15,000 miles out of a motor, thats pretty sad.

 

never took it that high.he also had better cams, but he meant if it was on a race motor/setup

 

50k 3 years 8k every day. stock bottom end and stock b16 head. ls bottom was not rebuilt all oem parts untouched. it made 162whp 132tq with gsr cams b16 exh. manifold. i missshifted from 3rd to fourth and went to second and on the vafc it read 9929 was the highest rpm reached and it still lived nothing broken. i took it out of the car and it was still running strong after 3 years. leak down test was starting at number one cylinder. 10 2 3 2 % which was surprising. donf on the board mounted the head on the block and modified it for vtec. he can vouch for the info i am giving.


shawn

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by pr0honda &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">50k 3 years 8k every day. stock bottom end and stock b16 head. ls bottom was not rebuilt all oem parts untouched. it made 162whp 132tq with gsr cams b16 exh. manifold. i missshifted from 3rd to fourth and went to second and on the vafc it read 9929 was the highest rpm reached and it still lived nothing broken. i took it out of the car and it was still running strong after 3 years. leak down test was starting at number one cylinder. 10 2 3 2 % which was surprising. donf on the board mounted the head on the block and modified it for vtec. he can vouch for the info i am giving.


shawn</TD></TR></TABLE>

how many miles on your block when you did the head swap?

 

it was a block donf on the board got for a spare for his integra it was incredibly clean it looked like 10k but realisticly it was probably 30k

 

you guys are making me get excited about finishing my lsvtec

 

just do it right and it will live. dont expect to get results like i did though there have not been many engines that lived like it. but do it right the first time and it will be fine. and make sure you take care of it.


shawn

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sickerhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just wanted to see how many miles peoples lsvtec motors are lasting.

Ive heard they dont last as long because of the r/s ratio but i wanted to hear from some peaple with first hand experiance.</TD></TR></TABLE>

mine's only got 5000 miles, but my friend with an almost identical setup has 90,000+ miles.

 

kinda off topic, but what all do you need to do ls/vtec? i wanted to do a b18b bottom end and a b16a2 head.

 

thats what i would use if i were to build an lsvtec my buddy has same setup in his hatch with gsr cams and it smashes going up to highschool drags 5-6-05 in pacific raceway WA. around 3pm come if ur in the area