What can I do as far as bolt ons to get some decent horse and torque to my 5th gen civic? Anybody have pics of their engine with only bolt ons?

 

Do you want cheap bolt-ons or expensive bolt-ons(tc or sc). In actuality you will not gain that much hp from a simple bolt-on- such as I/H/E. It doesn't matter if you want an AEM CAI or Iceman CAI, Greddy exhaust or Thermal Research exhaust, Greddy headers or Mugen headers - none of these items will give you more than 10-15 hp combined, I don't care what anybody says..it's all hype!!!

Your restricted by the size of your engine, therefore either swap it with a DOHC(pref. a B18c1 IMO) or go FI(turbo or supercharger) and then beef up your fuel delivery. Either of the two will cost from $2000 - $6000 or even more.

A while back I bought into the hype of I/H/E and have not been satisfied, so now I'm going FI...so now I have basically wasted $700 on the intake and header. Now, I am not saying that I/H/E(only) is bad for all Hondas, but just for the SOHC engine. IMO do yourself a favor and save your money for significant hp.

 

What all does it take to actually do an engine swap? Where do I get the engines from? Etc. I am new at this whole thing. Thanks.

 

not too familiar with engine swaps, but I believe that you will need to get a new tranny and ECU(for rev limits) if you swap with an integra engine(B18a-B18c), but I don't think you need to go through any of that if you swap with a B16(civic si).

As far as places to go..there are plenty you just have to do a search on the Internet. A good start would behttp://hybrid.honda-perf.org for info on all swaps or the swaps section of H-T and then possibly http://www.racingworks.com for retail, but there are plenty of websites and even people in the classifieds of H-T that are selling these types of engines.


[Modified by maxim_force, 8:19 PM 9/12/2001]

 

Man, if your miles aren't too bad, and your compressions goor, just slap a turbo on that sucker (greddy has a cheap kit for about 1500 dollars w/o intercooler). I've got a friend whose got it on his civic and it makes nice power. Go check it out! http://www.greddy.com

 

Bolt in a B series motor.


[Modified by b18b1slmd3dr, 4:36 AM 9/13/2001]

 

try to do some search around the area that you live ,check out the shops and also you could get more info on what type of motor swap you would like .theres nothing like a motor swap , cause you are able to up grade even more if you decide to.B18c1 GSR motors change over are nice and not to expencive ,and also you could always go turbo if you decide to go that route.