I'm about to pick up a 98 coupe dx, clean & 100% stockerr. no rust too i live in texas!. anyways i sold my built gsr before i went to basic and that car got me in way to much trouble anyways. now im going for i guess the "hard-parking" i have alot of suspension parts, ff spec 1, coil-over, asr, beaks, front, rear camber kits, ff7 lcas, strut bars, all that jazz ect...

anyways i wanna do an easy swap and hmo is selling the jdm spec d15b which imo is the best sohc motor (i know they run like 130hp.). but i wanna build the motor for fun, any good advice on parts, i.e pistons, valves, cams, cam gears.. so any input would be appreciated

thx

 

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from my understanding the d15b vtec is very similar to the d16z6. but if i were you id leave the motor pretty much stock just with bolt ons. unless your going to boost it i wouldn't worry about fully building the motor. i had a z6 in my old coupe with just intake header exhaust and its was enough fun for me. but thats just my opinion

 

get a d16y7 block for like 150$ max, a z6 head for about 75$, get it completely rebuilt oem spec, shave 0.020" off the head, buy a small cam and tune it. Should be as fun as the GSR.

 

I'm about to get a JDM d15b vtec after doing some research it has the d16z6 head on it but the bottom end is unique you can get pistons for it semi-easily but the rods are hard if not impossible to get due to the stroke and rod length. I've seen a few threads where people use the vitara pistons and eagle rods without any clearance issues but I wouldn't trust that. My build is going to be stock bottom built head with turbo running 7-10psi which seems to be the reliable standard for the d15b getting about 200whp