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common sense rule of thumb... the smaller the power your engine produces the harder it is to make more....
with 60kw thats 50% increase your looking at... if it was a big car like say an XR^ turbo.. an exhaust system may just well get you 30kw for example
if your gonna do thos mods lot of work involved and youl more than liely loose alot fo talk with 'bigger' parts which arent always beter yes youll gain power but if you want a daily driver a cams / cam gears piston are mainly topend power getters , i think a swap is in need... theres a place in syd that does b16 swaps on road for 5k so im sure in melb something can b worked out ...
sell ur honda and go get a wrx..30kw is to much unless u have deep pockets
just turbo it..
Ah,ya know me too well :pQuote:
Originally Posted by dsp26
It's true.Guys in the US make 100kw NA d-series easy and all the time.But the thing is,there it's cheap and easy to do.Here it will be more expensive and will take a bit more effort but is totally do-able,it's just not a popular choice :D
I/H/E
Port and Polish + 4 angle valve job (port match intake and exhaust gasket)
Cam and camgear
Valves,springs and retainers
ECU + Tuning
and ya there!
So that's http://d-series.org/ where dreams can become a reality :wave:
But yeah,a lot easier to just drop in a b right?
boost will get you 30kw no worries with enough power & torque to make most cars look twice.
5k budget should be ok also, see Luke's d series turbo
hmm you can sell ur car and new car with a bigger engine ? :)
not worth it as everyone has mentioned, if you have deep pockets.
just put in extra and boost it.
im just going to completely ignore most of the posts in this thread as i would generally assume they would say something like 'swap motors' or 'put a sticker on it, +50kw'
if you want to make power from a d series, you're at the wrong forum. a lot more helpful people at www.onecamonly.com
but just to help you out, if you're willing to do most of the work yourself, you can buy a high compression all motor kit (includes all gaskets, slim metal head gasket, high comp coated p29 pistons) to bump up the compression ratio from www.fjdistributors.com. you might think, 'holy crap, thats gonna be expensive', and you'd be wrong, it only costs $350 including shipping to australia.
then im pretty sure they started selling skunk2 camshafts (fairly cheap) but head to bisimoto for better NA cams, and they have a kms complete titanium valvetrain package for $600 (including valves, seats, retainers, springs, blockguard, etc) to handle any camshaft you want to stick in.
so far, thats less than 1.5k. then head to ebay for a 4-2-1 stainless steel d series header, will cost you $40 and quality and design are the exact same as xforce, minus the tag. exhaust you could probably get a custom one.
rest you can spend on labour if you dont wanna do it yourself. spend money on a good tune, and you'll be happy.
you might think this wont get you much power, but bisimoto will give you advice to make good power out of this. alternatively, you can buy his tuning packages. he makes somewhere in the vicinity of 200whp with a setup like above, so its cheaper than a k/f/b swap, and will whoop their butts at the same time.
GOLD!!!!
Dat's what I'm talkin' bout.Never underestimate the underdog.The best part is no one can be bothered so you will be unique :)
nice!
just wat i needed to know but i guess no1 here did any of this to an eg si?
i better look into it more when i have time.
if most havent notice, i didnt want to do much or mayb nothing at all to it as its only a daily driver car but damn! its such a fun car. also the reason y i dont want to go turbo or swap with b18c7 or anything hardcore as my evo 6 is pretty much enough power n sometimes quite scary on the mountain for me.