i searched couldnt really find anything im sure its real simple but can someone just tell me the difference between the ls and gs engine

 

Nothing. Both are B18B if you're talking about the 3rg gen.

 

Major difference is that the gs has leather seats, sunroof, and spoiler while the ls does not. Engine are both identical.

 

The engines are the same.

The suspensions are different on the DC's (94-01) and so are some of the trannies.

The main upgrades of the GS over the LS is:

-Leather interior
-high spring rates
-larger rear sway bar (14mm vs. 13mm)
-15x7 alloy wheels (older GS-R wheels)

Some GS's also got GS-R transmissions, although it's not very consistant.

 

aite thanks guys that is what i thought but someone told me different

 

so whats the difference between the LS special edition??? I know it has leather, sun roof, and everything that a gsr has but no b18c.....

 

ls se=94-97 gs=98-01


and no gs' ever came with gsr trannies. dont know what you're smokin there

 

yeah i never heard of a gs with a gs-r tranny either.

 

I only know (from experience) for the '96 models in Canada.

LS-SE (GS) coupe extras over LS coupe:
- leather seat
- spoiler
- 15" 6-spokes alloy wheels
- GSR 24mm front sway bar
- GSR muffler

LS-SE (GS) sedan extras over LS sedan:
- leather seat
- interior wood trims
- 15" alloy wheels
- GSR 24mm front / 14mm rear sway bars
- GSR muffler

The rest is the same, i.e. sunroof, power door locks, power windows, ABS, cruise control, etc.

 

Leather, alloy wheels, and a spoiler. The LS always had a sunroof, but didn't come with alloy wheels until 98.

 

i think in the later years the difference came to a few different color options, different wheels...maybe. I know in the later years there were 2 different style non-GSR alloys. Those sometimes refered to as the sunflower wheels and then the more soughtafter 97GSR 98+ 10 spoke i believe. However in the lower years it was the RS that didnt come with sunroof, cruise, or ABS. My 94 LS as a sunroof, spoiler, and alloys.....and yes to be consistant with other responses, no leather for LS, only GS. HOwever, im pretty sure the wheels i have were a dealer only option post assembly line.

 

Maybe you should do some research before you start talking trash.

I have a GS that came with a GS-R tranny. I have a friend with the same tranny in his GS.

 

I'm 100% sure the GS does not come with a GS-R tranny from Honda factory. It might have the same S80/Y80 code, but the 3rd, 4th, 5th and FD gears are different.

Here are some links to the B-series tranny guide:
http://tiiite.b16a.com/GearRatios.htm
http://www.bseries.net/html/specs/btrannyspecs.php

 

i'm also 100% sure no gs's ever came with the gsr tranny. honda doesn't just mix and match trannies and engines, they design each tranny for a specific engine. i garauntee you only gsr's came with gsr trannys. why would you think you have a gsr tranny anyway?

 

k few things, 2nd gen mind you. the ls/gs and the gs-r have the same tranny CODE ys1, but the gears are different, dont ask me why the codes are the same?

and heres a question my friend had a 91 ls w/b18a1 and it redlined at 6500, now my other fried, who let me borrow the car last night cause my girl is buyin it today, had a 92 gs w/b18a1 which redlines at 7000 rpms, both are autos mind you, so what is the reason behind this? are the cams slightly different? is this the 5-10 hp difference you hear about?

btw it has 100k miles, w/i/h/e, and i know who has owned the car since 23k miles, and it wasnt beat on, and we're paying 2000, sounds like agood deal to me, what do u think?

 

you are 100% wrong about the GS's coming with the GSR tranny. from the factory not a single GS came with that transmission, period. I dont care what you say you and or your friends have....acura nor honda sold GS's with GSR trannies stock unless the dealership you bought it from did that after they got the car on the lot for some reason.

The GS is essentially a GSR with the same engine and tranny as an LS but it shares most other stuff with a GSR. GS's came standard with leather in 97 and 98 whereas the GSR only started coming standard with leather in '99...it was an option before then. GS's stopped sharing the GSR wheels in 1998 when the GSR's got the 6 spoke "blade" wheels and the GS kept the old GSR wheels that it shared with the GSR in 1997. Before 1997 the GS was pretty much a Special Edition because the special edition had everything the GSR had except the motor and tranny and came standard with leather.

 

90-91 make 130 hp @ 6000 rpm, while 92-93 make 140 hp @ 6300 rpm. since the 92-93 make max power a little higher up the redline is raised by a few hundred rpm.

 

because that code has nothing to do with what the tranny is...it has to do with what chassis the tranny came from.

 

sorry, browser mess up


[Modified by 93ludevtec, 8:14 PM 6/18/2002]

 

quote:
"because that code has nothing to do with what the tranny is...it has to do with what chassis the tranny came from."

is that an integra thing?, cause in the forth gen prelude, all the cars were the same, but the tranny code would tell you if it was a vtec/si/s tranny. thats what i was going by.

how do you tell the difference between the ys1/ls and the ys1/gs-r, cause im in the market for a ys-1/gs-r one.

 

I know that the G2 Teg manual trannies use the same code. Only way of knowing which is which is by taking it apart (and count the teeth on the gears) or figuring out how many turns (from the flywheel shaft, whatever that's called) to the drive shafts (where the axles gonnect to the tranny). That's how I'd figure the gearing out.

 

http://tiiite.b16a.com/GearRatios.htm