Advice is highly appreciated I recently posted my 02 RSX type S for sale very clean engine no problems at all 180k miles. I posted the car for $3900 and someone offered to trade me their 1998 integra turbo ls. It looks pretty clean in pictures clean interior all that. He claims it is rebuilt with type r pistons and has somewhere in the mid-upper 200s for horsepower (no dyno sheets so I'm skeptical) on 12 psi. Usually I wouldn't even be taking his time of day but the car looks super clean inside and outside I'm just worried about the engine. He sent a pic of the engine saying it has a Garrett 50/63 but can anyone tell me anything they notice about the engine? It seems kinda like a cheap turbo setup so I'm skeptical if it's worth the trade. Someone please give me any advice possible.

 

That's a non-vtec valve cover, he's saying he is using Type-R pistons in a non-VTEC head? I haven't really heard of that being done, besides, why would you raise the compression for a turbo'd setup?

 

Sounds like a really bad idea. Why would anyone in their right mind give up a clean reliable k20a2 with six speed, for a stance swaggot b18b ls with ebay/Frankenstein mystery build?

 

Oh, looks like your RSX is also slammed. Makes sense now.

 

NEVER, EVER buy someone else's project AKA headache.

 

Type R pistons plus ebay turbo kit, sounds like the engine is on spent time. He is probably trying to get rid of it before the engine lets go.

 

I'm going to agree with the consensus here that this is not a good trade. Unless that dude has a huge stack of receipts for parts laying around (doubtful) you can assume that it's a no-name Ebay crap build and will likely fail in a possibly spectacular manner in the near future.

 

I was going to say bad trade, then I looked at your RSX quarter panels and can see it is rotting from the inside out. It's about equal imo. But i'd at least do a compression test before committing.

 

I would not trade a perfectly good RSX-S for a frankenstein LS project. Plus you didn't say what ECM was being used. As far as I know, it could be running on basemaps and already blown. Also looks like that car has been in a front end collision.
If you sold your car for $3900, would you buy that LS with it? I wouldn't.

 

look for a bone stock 150k or so gs-r imho.
seen some good deals for $4k or so here in mo.
look for something like this beauty:

https://honda-tech.com/forums/acura-...-gs-r-3286611/

prices are about as low as they'll get so it's a good time to buy.
type-r prices are already getting nuts for good ones.

 

Please do not point this guy in the direction of clean unmolested cars, so he can cut the springs on those and ruin them too.