i did some searching, but no concrete answers...

I'm going to rebuild a B18C1, went to the local machine shop, and they gave me the old "no replacement for displacement" speech... anyway they want to bore it out to ~2.0L (resleeve it also). The guy tells me this may cause the car to overheat if I drive it for extended periods of time

Is this guy just trying to sell me a new radiator???? Or is there a real risk of constant overheating with the overbore and stock radiator?

It IS a daily driver car, so should i stick with the 1.8??

The car has to be able to withstand thoes long rides to the beach on the jersey parkway with all the stop and go traffic

 

Sounds like your dealing with a couple of hicks trying to feed you a bunch of bs. I've <U>never</U> heard of a car being more prone to overheating just because it has a bigger bore. You should be fine, do what you want to do and not some dude at the machine shop tells you. Besides Honda makes a 2.0L B series, and I don't think they have a problem with overheating

 

Thanks for the input, i figured he was just trying to rip me off