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B18C in my opinion; simple, cheaper and ample aftermarket support. Though obtaining the motor + GB +wiring harness + drive shafts etc for $3.5k might be hard (but then again, it also depends on who you know I guess)
Parts are interchangeable with other B-series motors, fuel will be cheap as a daily and the ease of doing the installation whilst maintaining a/c and p/s. Pretty much plug-and-play.
H series, you may have to worry about drift shaft issues + poor gearing (from what I've heard)
Goodluck.
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Djbinh is selling complete h22a motor + conversion parts to fit eg\eh for 3k, bargin I say, check it out
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ac lol (this isnt nevada or dubai)
ps steering isnt too much to fix up
I'd much rather an engine with a chain also, and for the price of most of the swaps up I can get brand new assembled heads and complete assembled blocks new (bseries), find a busted gbox at a wreckers, rebuild most of it, get some shafts ethier made up or new CDM, rest of the parts are pretty easy to find floating around
but if I was spending 6-8k for conversion bits for a b18c I'd be more inclinded buying a k20a as it's newer
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B16a or b16b prob my fav engine. Cant get a more aggressive vtec changeover. Or perhaps k20z1, I saw ek9 with k20z1 with a violent vtec engage
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put a 3" mendrel bent pipe and filter with a short ram on any vtec engine and it will give you that nice engagement "bite" lol
best of the lot is the b16a2, such a loud refined bite that makes people look wherever you are (fk I miss that em1 leighton lol)
to the above post about drivesahfts being 3.5k, that's oem, when you start talking of billet ones with removable abs rings they're about $1500 landed (these will run your 10s cars though and last for a long time)
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Ill go for the B18cR if you have another 2k
LSD box, better engine, better gearing
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B18C OR B16B, H22a is pretties good but u get no aircon and also the parts for h22a is kind of hard to find. but as if B series it's ezy to get parts for.
yeah about D-series, they are not to bad with turbo, but that if u have the budget to do it up. i have a mate who Turbo his D-series and he spending 30k on the motor + parts. but in the US, D-series are the KILLER...........
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some of the best build threads I read are with d-series in the usa, so well talked up threads, oil pumps are a great topic of discussion :)
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For $3.5g I'd consider B16A swap or turbo D. H22 maybe, but it's a little more stuffing around I think.
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i got a jdm sirg b18c swap for 3000... 500 for any other costs that might show up
