So after completing my first semester of college I decided to treat myself to small gift. I sold my truck to get myself a civic here are some pics of when i first picked it up. It came with a d15b7 swap that was awesome on gas but less than awesome on power.

 

Would you please fix your picture posting?

 

How does it have an intercooler and no turbo?

 

So the faithful day finally came when my d15 blew up. COA: hydro lock slung a rod. Prime suspects: My friend and a 1.5' deep puddle. I was mad in the beginning but it just meant the build was starting early. So out with the old!!!

 

What about the pictures? And the previous owner left all the intercooler and charge pipes on the car.

 

After hunting around for a while I came across a craigslist ad with a guy stating he had mountains upon mountains of B series stuff. So we talked and I was able to trade my d15b7 and tranny for a disassembled B20 some cash. I was aslo able to get my hands on a 2000 EM1 shell that my friend wrecked about 8 months back. The picture of the block is after it returned from the machine shop.

 

The pictures are fine now.

What are your realistic plans?

 

My plans are to put my b20 N/A in the car and have it as a daily driver maybe minor bolt ons such as headers, intake, exhaust and maybe a mild cam by either BLOX or Skunk2. I dont plan on making no more than 150-170 hp. And once I move back home probably make it into a b20vtec or b20 turbo on about 7 psi daily and 10 psi for racing.

 

This means absolutely nothing.

 

Well once its turbo I want to net about anything >200hp.

 

B-series can handle 300hp stock boosted. Some of them already push near 200hp out of the box so if that is your goal you might as well just swap to one of those engines because 200 hp boosted on a B-series is, for lack of a better word, dumb. I'm making that now on a D-series.

 

I have a question If I put a stock b20 head on the block its my best bet to go with ARP non vtec head studs for reliability?

 

I never knew head studs had the option of VTEC.

 

my bad I just realized what I said...

 

Rolled the car into the garage so the engine bay could get some color!
Before

After

 

can someone point me in the direction of the EK?

 

My temporary motor.

 

Theres no reason to put a head on without doing some work to it..

a valve job is quite cheap when u drop off the head. Fresh springs and retainers will always be better then 12-15 year old springs.

Maybe a little exhaust polish, cast mark removal.. If you want to help your self down the road, do whats right while you have it apart now.


Fixed

 

The EK is there its red. Well its really an EM1.

 

No EK's here just an ej8 and em1

 

Nice man!

 

I enjoy threads that make me laugh

 

trying to decide on a wheel color. Here are how my Auto X's look now:

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<br> Im thinking bronze and a polished lip or pink polished lip.

 

This thread is weird. It's all over the place and hard to follow tbh.

 

That it is that it is.... so what r u gonna do with the wrecked one???