alright i saw a picture of the cover of a honda tuning magazing with the white dc5 with the gold plated v/c and itb's and it said on the lower right side of the cover "stroke your d-series using junkyard parts. i was looking on the hondatuning website to try to find the article about stroking your d-series with junkyard parts, if anyone has a link to this article that would be great, thanks.

 

i read that article it was in last months... i think... but anyways it is definately not worth the effort to get what they produced but i guess thats just me because i can only have two projects

 

well this is my only project car, did it involve uber machining and what not? any link?

 

Buy the motor from the '96-'00 Civic GX's - they use natural gas and have some ridiculous (like 12:1) CR. Slap a Y8 manifold and trimmings (fuel rail, injectors, TB, etc.) - and you have yourself a 12:1 CR D series.

Bense could give you more details including how not to set the dizzy timing correctly and blow the motor .

 

well my single is already up around close to 11:1 or so i havnt really worked it out, but i figuered i would see how they did it and if it was worth my time or not

 

order the back issue.

 

where would i be able to do that? i suck at the internot

 

5 dollars shipped i have it

 

I think they finagled a D17 crank in there somehow with GX pistons. I think they had to notch the block for the crank to fit. It really didn't seem worth the trouble though. Thats what the guy said at the end of the article. They did that for the specific class event they were doing. It had to be OEM parts, but you could build whatever you wanted with them. No swaps.

 

yeah it seams pretty involved if this is your only car and not a project car. there were some fabricating/modifications that could go horribly wrong if you aren't proficient in the area of engine building.

i think it's a super cool build, the gains weren't amazing but if i did it it would be more for the fun of knowing what i did to make the power.

 

i read that article while i was taking a **** at work :-)

 

if i remember that dyno showed it made power!

basically all it is doing is modifying a 1.6 block to fit a 1.7 crank(notches in the block). you use th same rods (137mm) but also the 1.7 pistons (namely the gx for higher compression). to do that, the cut valve reliefs into the piston because they dont come with them(needed because they planned for a big cam).

if you know what your doing, this machining can be done by yourself without costly machine work. compare it to boring a block, itll be cheaper. also, the oem parts are cheaper if found in a junyard.

 

hmmm seems like a ridiculous amount of work, did they post a dyno sheet at all? or a final whp?

 

It made 170~ish WHP but they ended up with 165~167 WHP for a better torque curve.

 

isnt there another way to stroke a D-series using ls rods or something like that.

<-------knows nothing about d-series engines!

 

i think they used a 1.7 crank from a newer civic .

 

most ppl use the ls rods for boosting i havnt checked the specs to see if it actually strokes it out, i would think it would

 

it isn't worth it.