kinda new to the honda scene but i picked up a 96 dx sedan and want to start a jdm project. i am looking for a budget build and to find out if i should b series swap or jus build the single cam.
and ideas let me know
all help appriciated
thanks!!!

 

Likely you'd want to swap to a B-series motor, or turbocharge your D-series motor.

 

only thing is i dont want a junk b series motor that smokes because i dont have that much to spend but i have heard of d series boosted putting down

 

Yeah, you can definitely get good forced-induction power out of a D-series motor. Join us at D-series.org for some tech info that's D-specific, and https://honda-tech.com/forums/forced-induction-16/ for general information about turbocharging. This way you won't swap in a used B-series, find out it's trashed, and have to deal with the headache of removing/replacing/scrapping it.

Just avoid the eBay "SSAutoChrome" ('SSAC') kits. Since you have a 1996 to 2000 Civic, you'll want an OBD2A (96-98) or OBD2B(99-00) conversion harness to run an OBD1 ECU like a P28, that'll be a bit of the expense in itself. It goes on from there.

 

Turbo the D-Series

 

b20vtec and boost it man

 

Turbo D ftw!

 

yes sometimes the non Vtec do the best at boost

 

ya im going more for boost since with a b series with make less than 200whp and would cost a couple grand to get done and boosting the d should gett me over the 200 range. any recomendations of kits and builds?

 

JDM and budget are not two words that go together.

 

im only looking for budget motor wise. i know jdm stuff isnt cheap and styleing will be the last thing i do.