What do you guys think for daily driver?
1996 cx civic hb with 97 usdm gsr swap
Block honed
Itr pistons
New Oem rings
New Oem rod bearings
New Oem Headgasket

Head sent to machine shop/Clean looks brand new
3 angle valve job
All valve seals/cam seals replaced
Cleaned resurfaced head
Pressure treated head
Itr cams/Stock gsr valvetrain
Blox Im
Stock header for now,Will be upgrading as soon as i get the money

Im looking at 165-175 whp daily driver. What do you guys think? I wanted a mild setup since i may want to smog this car in future.
Im looking to run low 14's

Car will be tuned with chipped p72 obd 1 with Crome Pro. I know my header/exhaust/cat is choking power, but i will definitely replaced all 2.5 inch all around.
Full interior no ac no power steering.


Modified by PnoyEj6 at 10:03 AM 12/14/2006


Modified by PnoyEj6 at 3:33 PM 12/14/2006

 

165-175whp would be reasonable

 

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YOU THINK I CAN HIT HIGH 13'S WITH SLICKS?

 

my brother was running mid 14's in his gsr with slicks and 155whp. if you're a good driver you should be in the high-mid 13's.

 

P72 running blox manifold. Gonna get CELS for the lack of butterflys? I like the setup nice and reliable with high 13 potential.

 

IM RUNNING OBD 1 P72. no cel. I got the ecu chipped to remove butterflies and its not throwing codes unless i pop the obd2a ecu back on

 

those times should be easy to turn, i ran mid to high 13s on a internally stock gsr with bolt ons and stage 1 cams on street tires in a 95 coupe

 

Solid foundation! I have complete type r valvetrain for sale too if you wanna rev a little higher

 

SORRY BUT THEY ARE PUTTING HEAD BACK ON TODAY. I WILL BE FINE WITH 8K REDLINE

 

In for the numbers.

If it actually gets TUNED i could see it breaking 170whp

if its a couple runs with a bit of dizzy adjustments in between, then i say 160-170

 

i will be running on type r basemap , but the car will actually be dyno tuned on dyno jet for 1 1/2 hours. I will post numbers when its all said and done. You think i should be fine with type r basemap for 1 day??

 

You should break 170WHP.

I made 170 with just ITR cams,DC JDM 4-1(open header) and a AEM ShortRam.

That was back in 05 at the Pomona Event. Since then, Turbo

 

what exhaust setup where you running?? Im running stock right now with stock head

 

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you can rev higher, i use to take mine up to 8500k, i use to run an ecu with no rev limiter and would miss a gear from time to time and the tach would burry past 9k and never had issues

 

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i wouldn't trust those single exhaust valve springs with itr cams. valves have been bent before. how about the possibility of acellerated wear?

d

 

im not gonna rev that high. Valves have been inspected by machine, no bent valves, replaced all valve seals by machine shop and 3 angle valve shop. Why dont you trust stock gsr valve springs if im not gonna rev pass 8k. This is daily driver btw

 

I rev to 8500 in my Turbo setup (stock valve train & sleeve) No problems...Yet

I had 2.5 mandrel bent piping to the axel(test pipe) and flanged the muffler.

Jerry Built

 

Do you guys think i should be fine with stock gsr valvetrain on itr pistons/cams??

 

If you have a little xtra cash, why not a Portflow ValveTrain?

 

i dont have extra cash, since i already spent too much. I was told i dont need to upgrade valvetrain unless i was going with more aggressive cams like skunk 2 stage 2's blox spec b's toda spec b's etc. I even heard you can get away with skunk 2 stage 1's with stock valve, which is more aggressive than itr's

 

I was thinking for future Mods.

But hey, with what ya got it should be fine.

I'm boosted and I still have a Stock Valve Train w/ITR cams

 

im running itr pistons too since i got the block honed etc. I will definitely upgrade in future to better valvetrain. Do you rev to 8k alot with your setup??Juda no problem on stock gsr valvetrain?

 

well, i've been reseaching the itr cam(s) upgrade for a couple years now and i've come accross only one person who actually took his head apart and got it properly inspected after some good use with stock gsr springs. he said all his exhaust valves were slightly bent, but he raced the car regularly, but never went above the stock gsr 8200 cutoff.

So all i'm saying is, even if you don't go beyond the stock gsr rev limit, doesn't mean the valvetrain isn't working harder, because it is. And just because so and so says his engine is still running 'fine' after 'one year'(or whatever), doesn't mean the wear isn't accellerated. (not to mention possible misshifts)

Maybe its just my personal security blanket, but i'm going with the spring upgrades. The only debate, imo, is whether its worth the effort, if your not taking the head off, don't have the spring compressor, or the know how. If you've got your head apart anyway, it should be a no brainer for cheap security and peace of mind. what, 100bux for the itr intake springs? and move the gsr intake to the exhaust.

my 2cents.

d

 

yea thats true. But this is daily driver and have been inspected by machine shop. Im not goin to be redlining everyday. Only when i feel the mood you know what i mean.