Hi,

I got a dying B18b in my DC now and I need to get rid of or rebuilt. It has leaks around the vavles so cylinder #2 is bad. I think my tranny is ok too.

I am thinking of these choices and my budget is about $3500-$4000 CAD Canadian dollars($2,942.35-$3,362.69 USD at 1 USD = 1.18952 CAD)

I want to either do little/nothing to it now or build it up for turbo down the road. so I want to keep my CR at stock.

1. rebuilt b18b with :
- sleeves, pistons, refresh the head.

2. turn my 1.8 into a 2.0 or 2.x using a deckplate and get pistons, rods, b16 head with stock cams and stuff.

3. swap a jdm gsr motor with tranny.

how much money will I need? #3 is the easiest but if I go that route, I'll prob only do bolt ons.

I want to do the stroker kit but I haven't done enough research on that yet and I don't know if there are any cheap headers that would still work if I get a deck plate.

any comments?

thanks,

 

For 3K, id do a fresh bottom end rebuild/ pistons/rods or (even keep shotpeen the stockers).
Put a stock ITR head/manifolds and some DIY engine management, or have someone else tune it for cheap...

Sleeving will cost you almost another thousand.
For the money, just LS/Vtec it with 11ish :1 compression and call it a day...