I am a machinist and have built up cars for years...Mainly the domestic V8 variety,Lowriders,ETC. Now im leaning towards the honda trend. I recently purchased a 93 Civic 3 Door from a friend who lost interest in the project. He upgraded the stock 1.5 to a JDM vtec 1.5 along with basic common boltons like Ram air intake, Matrix header, you get the picture. Im wanting to upgrade the fuelrail, Injectors,and ad a 75HP shot of the juice. Bottom line is that im worried if it will be worthy of competing against larger displacement Hondas on the street. Can my small VTEC be a contender? Or am i wasting my money by upgrading components on this engine? It would be nice to have a small displacement AZZKICKER if possible.

 

There is no replacement for displacement.....and that displacement may just come in the form of a hi flowing turbo.

Basic bolts on won't net you much improvement on that motor, but there's no reason it can't put out plenty of power if it's force fed.

It really depends on how much you're looking at doing with this car, but if you're a machinist, why not drop in forged internals (rods and pistons will do) and boost the hell out of it.

 

it first depeands on what you have too spend and how long your willing to have your car out of commision. just my 2 cents the setup that your looking too do would be great on an engine swap so you might want to stick with the stock engine or not but if your thinking about adding NOS or turbo i would just sell the engine and buy a better and stronger motor that will be able too last longer under NOS or turbo or whatever your going to do.

 

Thanks for the reply....Im very willing to do machine work if its practical. I just dont want to pump in the $$$ for parts unless it can be a contender. The engine was swapped 2 months ago....I just hate to see it come out so early....Thanks for the info!!!

 

many on this board have agreed that the sohc motor is worthy contender as opposed to its dohc coutnerpart.... but only when boosted. it responds well to turbos, and if it does happen to blow up, will be at a minimal price to replace.

many have said "d-series turbo vs. b-series swap"

still though, even through all the heated discussions, i have chosen a sohc n/a setup. good luck

 

Thanks for the info.

 

you'll deffinately need to go turbo if you wanna compete with the bigger motors but even then you wont hang with the turbo b series guys.....but i say keep it, build it, boost the **** out of it, and let us know how it goes

 

if you really want to build it get in contact with "turbo panda" he can get you some first gen supra pistions with B16 rods and you can boost like ~10-15 lbs.. he has an old thread. search under his SN