yo whats up guys, i am new on the post and need some advice. I have an 96 civic coupe with a jdm b16 skunk 2 chipped ecu, header, intake, exhaust, aem fuel rail and pressure regulator. Its a semi-daily driver, so i dont wanna go to crazy with it. Anyway, ever since i got the car I was burning a shitload of oil and had a leaky head gasket so i had my mechanic fix the gasket and wrote the oil buring off as a "honda thing" since a lot of other guys with b-series motors had told me that thiers burned oil too. Unfortunately it turned out that two of my pistons had holes melted on the top of them exposing the rings. I already have skunk 2 stage 2 cams, springs,camgears and retainers for the head, and am planning on purchasing skunk2 valves but i dont know what to do about my bottom end. I have around 2500 to spend here including labor and i still need pistons(CTR of course), and my mechanic is already talkin about how i need to spend at least 1500 boring out and rebuilding my whole bottom end plus at least 800 for all the labor hes gonna do pulling the engine out and putting it back. I just wanna get this thing back on the road with a little more power for as little $$ as possible, and i am too scared of future problems to do the ls/vtec so:
A. is 1500 standard for a bottom end rebuild?
B. wouldnt it be cheaper/better to just buy a used stock complete gsr bottom end and put by b16 head on it?
C.would a stock gsr bottom end be able to handle a head like the one I'm using.
D can i just replace my blown pistons in my b16 with CTR pistons without doing a whole bottom end rebuild?
Thanks for taking the time to respond i know this is a long post but your guys input will be greatly apreciated.
Ps- Any hot car shows in NJ comin up?

 

didnt i already answer this!! hahahaha!! j/m

 

your mechanic is trying to rob you

 

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buy an ls botom end for cheap put some money into pistons and arp rod bolts make your self a killer ls vtec setup u already for the ecu and everything else it would be simple and cheaper and you prolly wouldnt spend your 2500

 

thanks for your input guys, after talking to a few other honda gurus i decided to just buy a complete bottom end from a 2000 gsr and put it back in like that to save $ before i blow my budget and cant afford an oil change