Hello everyone, I have a 99 Civic with a B18c1 and right now I'm forced to buy new pistons/rings... I don’t want to go over the whole situation of why, but the pistons I had previous were USDM ITR pistons...
This time my motor has to be bored a bit so I was thinking of going with OS JDM ITR pistons for a bump in compression (I was going to prep for turbo but I would not be able to do a turbo forever) but my question Is with the JDM ITR Pistons set up I should see a slight difference. Right?
Also I was wondering if I got ITR rods to replace my GSR rods then I should be able to handle higher RPMS... I know in order to handle higher RPMS I would need a little stronger valve train which I have (ITR retainer, springs and Skunk 2 Valves).
Any help would be much appreciated...
I did do a search and have been searching this kind of information most of the day I just hope I did enough research to ask this?

 

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Run JDM p30 pistons on your stock GSR rods. Upgrade your cams, valvesprings, retainers & get a chipped ecu.

 

Thank you for your suggestions I appreciate them . Anyone else?

 

civic type R pistons in OS and ITR cams and valve springs

 

oh yeah, and a different intake manifold, Skunk2 or AEBS (once they finally release the GSR version)

 

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13:1 compression and ITR cams...no way. Unrelaible at that...

you should be very clear anout N/A for FI now. Hot cams and high compression are the opposite of where you want to go with boost.

I would run the JDM ITR pistons, the rods you have are fine just put ARP rod bolts in them. Your stock valves are better than skunk's, just upgrade the valvetrain with Omnipower and get some CTR cams or better, upgrade the LMA's and you'll have a good set-up.

 

high compression and low boost yields big numbers if your tuner knows what he is doing. do a skinny search on that

 

Thanks for all the help everyone, but will I be ok with JDM ITR pistons, GSR Rods, ITR springs/retainers skunk2 valves and GSR cams or is that a set up for something to blow up?

 

just dont run crazy high boost, otherwise you will be fine. stick to 7-8 psi with good tuning and have fun

 

I don't want to boost anymore... I just want to know if that set up will be ok for daily driving?

 

if you are not going to boost, go with the CTR pistons