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Any suggestions??
Hey so I finally got my car fixed from hitting a deer like almost a month ago and can finally start on the motor. I got a 91 LS integra with the B 18 in it and wonna start building power in it. Any suggestions on some stuff to get?
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Wait...so you have an ls/vtec already? From your first post, one would assume you have a stock or stock-ish b18a1.
Do you want to build your current motor? If so, do you want to stay n/a or go forced induction? Do you want to swap out the head and do ls/vtec? Do you want to swap the whole motor out for a better one? If so, what do you want out of the better motor...n/a or f/i? What do you plan to use the car for? Spirited daily driving, drag strip, autocross? What kind of power numbers are you wanting to see?
Can't really answer your question until you give out some more info about what you'd like to do with your car and such. Generally asking "what should I do to my teg" will get you answers ranging from "install an aem c.a.i." to "omg do nawzzzzz" to "spend 15k on a fully built franken-K series swap" to "twin turbuh ls1 = ftw".
Do you want to build your current motor? If so, do you want to stay n/a or go forced induction? Do you want to swap out the head and do ls/vtec? Do you want to swap the whole motor out for a better one? If so, what do you want out of the better motor...n/a or f/i? What do you plan to use the car for? Spirited daily driving, drag strip, autocross? What kind of power numbers are you wanting to see?
Can't really answer your question until you give out some more info about what you'd like to do with your car and such. Generally asking "what should I do to my teg" will get you answers ranging from "install an aem c.a.i." to "omg do nawzzzzz" to "spend 15k on a fully built franken-K series swap" to "twin turbuh ls1 = ftw".
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Re: Any suggestions??
Oh yeah sorry i wasnt thinkin yeah its the stock b18 Where should I start? Well I dont have 3,000 for a new motor for a while so I wonna just build the B18 that it has in it. I can swap that head for the LS one though?
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What you have now is the LS head, which you could swap for a VTEC head...but then you'd have to run a VTEC ecu or a chipped/tuned p28 ecu since your ecu has no idea what VTEC is.
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I do believe you'll also need a VTEC conversion kit, like the Golden Eagle kit...I don't think you can just swap a vtec head on an ls block and drive it away. Some people have bad things to say about that GE head gasket that comes in the kit, you may need to order a head gasket meant for the motor that the VTEC head came from. You want to use whichever one doesn't restrict anything between the block and head such as the oil passages. Plenty of people could tell you which gasket you need, once you figure out what head you're going to use.
You'll also need to run the new wires, 1 or 2 don't remember, from the VTEC assembly to the ECU plugs which need to be pinned in, since your car does not have those wires. Later model non-vtec cars usually have the VTEC wire, they just don't use it.
Decide if you want to run an ecu with hondata, or an ecu with a tuned chip. Either way you'll need to buy an ecu, your PR4 is pretty much worthless once you go VTEC...I highly advise against slapping on one of those VTEC controllers, they're nothing but problems. Do it right.
You'll also need to run the new wires, 1 or 2 don't remember, from the VTEC assembly to the ECU plugs which need to be pinned in, since your car does not have those wires. Later model non-vtec cars usually have the VTEC wire, they just don't use it.
Decide if you want to run an ecu with hondata, or an ecu with a tuned chip. Either way you'll need to buy an ecu, your PR4 is pretty much worthless once you go VTEC...I highly advise against slapping on one of those VTEC controllers, they're nothing but problems. Do it right.
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To do LS VTEC right takes time and money and for you it may be better to just build the ls for now since you don't know too much.
If ls vtec sounds appealing though, a bare minimum of things you have to do is get ARP Rod Bolts since the stock ls ones are one of the biggest reasons ls vtecs fail. The rod bolts snap when taken to higher rpms like 8200.
You also have to put a VTEC oil pump on or make yours one since you have a 91. There is a washer on the spring in the older oil pumps and when you remove it, the bolt compresses the spring more for higher oil pressure.
you also have to put a VTEC water pump on that has 22 teeth so you won't be pumping bubbles instead of water at higher rpms.
Then you have to get a golden eagle LS vtec kit that supplys your head with an oil line. You can use the LS or a B16/Golden Eagle Gasket but I like LS since my golden eagle leaked
If ls vtec sounds appealing though, a bare minimum of things you have to do is get ARP Rod Bolts since the stock ls ones are one of the biggest reasons ls vtecs fail. The rod bolts snap when taken to higher rpms like 8200.
You also have to put a VTEC oil pump on or make yours one since you have a 91. There is a washer on the spring in the older oil pumps and when you remove it, the bolt compresses the spring more for higher oil pressure.
you also have to put a VTEC water pump on that has 22 teeth so you won't be pumping bubbles instead of water at higher rpms.
Then you have to get a golden eagle LS vtec kit that supplys your head with an oil line. You can use the LS or a B16/Golden Eagle Gasket but I like LS since my golden eagle leaked
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I do believe you'll also need a VTEC conversion kit, like the Golden Eagle kit...I don't think you can just swap a vtec head on an ls block and drive it away. Some people have bad things to say about that GE head gasket that comes in the kit, you may need to order a head gasket meant for the motor that the VTEC head came from. You want to use whichever one doesn't restrict anything between the block and head such as the oil passages. Plenty of people could tell you which gasket you need, once you figure out what head you're going to use.
You'll also need to run the new wires, 1 or 2 don't remember, from the VTEC assembly to the ECU plugs which need to be pinned in, since your car does not have those wires. Later model non-vtec cars usually have the VTEC wire, they just don't use it.
Decide if you want to run an ecu with hondata, or an ecu with a tuned chip. Either way you'll need to buy an ecu, your PR4 is pretty much worthless once you go VTEC...I highly advise against slapping on one of those VTEC controllers, they're nothing but problems. Do it right.
You'll also need to run the new wires, 1 or 2 don't remember, from the VTEC assembly to the ECU plugs which need to be pinned in, since your car does not have those wires. Later model non-vtec cars usually have the VTEC wire, they just don't use it.
Decide if you want to run an ecu with hondata, or an ecu with a tuned chip. Either way you'll need to buy an ecu, your PR4 is pretty much worthless once you go VTEC...I highly advise against slapping on one of those VTEC controllers, they're nothing but problems. Do it right.
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