Should i stay with my D16y8 or go with ?

[hondavti25]

yeah i plan to also buy a b16a some where down the track but thats a next car thing though i love my car and how it is and ill just up grade my internals if i have to to make it more reliable i been red linin my stock d16y8 and its still fine runs beautifully although the service this week should confirm hahaha but yeah thanks for the help sexc86 so you think save up

[hondavti25]

o and just quickly i am getting an S100 .... how much of improvment would that be tuned and or untuned?

[barefootbonzai]

i've been through the turbo stage, and a couple of NA setups. My choice would definitely be NA. Just swap in a b-series engine and work from that.

A basic D-series turbo kit with 8psi, would make your car about as fast as a B16 with basic mods. But the b16 would be less headaches and you can thrash it all day long without worrying. Just ask your mate aza how many headaches his had already.

I've got a B16 setup for your car if you're interested, right here in brisbane.

[hondavti25]

how much for?

[xtercii]

i was on that cruise and at the time i had my standard radiator and a 2inch think tube and fin cooler... running 10psi

never overheated

He never said yours or every turbo honda will overheat, he was merely pointing out the fact that turbo hondas are more likely to overheat judging on what happened during the cruise.

[barefootbonzai]

how much for?

it's in my signature

[hondavti25]

thanks um lets say id rather spend 3 grand towards the turbo D coz lets face it why throw away a perfectly good D series VTEC for somethin that will be easier lol if we did it the easy way all the time life wouldnt be so interesting .... my car only has 60,000 on it just.... so if i did that up once its done and running bought a DD ek with a b16/18 in it i reacon id be pritty happy with that.... i think i have chosen to deffs stay with my D ive seen them pull some nice numbers so i dont mind and if i do it right it could be mean... thanks for the offers but ill deff look into a B down the road or one of them new K20s... lol but now i gota decide on shit like cooling systems and finding stuff that is able to go in my car

[Sexc86]

you will spend more on a turbo set up

yes you will make more power with a turbo next to a stock b16a but no way as reliable as a N/A motor with spending the same amount of money...
at least you know with a b16/b18 you can drive it to red line quite often as the motor is designed to handle the high RPM and not be worried about it too much...
if your going to always be a granny driver with the occasional squirt then i guess turbo is fine for you.

have a look at Bensons/Jimmys N/a b18c7 running 13.6 constanly with the simplest of mods. intake, header, exhaust and a good tune. im sure for a turbo D to run that time you will have to spend shit loads more money unless you want to do it once before your motor or even gear box blows...

we arnt talking about a b18c we are talking about a b16, no way a basic b16 could get you into the 13s... if you wanted to spend the equal money on a dseries turbo as a b18c7 conversion it would be going faster then 13.6 imo

i also believe you can drive a turbo d just as you would drive a b16 provided you look after it and get a good tune

[Waggy]

This:

http://www.full-race.com/catalog/pro...3996f593a0daf7

[Sexc86]

on a side note, depending on what sort of power you like... any dohc vtec you will be able to rev alot higher.... bseries i think around 8.5 hseries i think around 8.... basicaly because all there power is made up top... with our d's there is no way we will be able to hit revs like this but all our power is made low so isnt really needed.....

also with dohc vtec you get that typical nice n/a dohc vtec roar vs your turbo spools, flutters and bov's

not sure if that will influence your decision

[hondavti25]

thanks man well a bit about my car.... my car when i bought it had 57,000 ks on it was in spot less nick it dives beautifully its been serviced every 5,000 with out fail so i know this car is in good nick so why swap it out didnt really think about it and yeah i mean if i can get a good amount of power out of it with out getting a new engine i am happy and if i feel the need to get more ill buy a hole new car down the track and do the hole engine swap thing ... i am seeing aza's car tonight so that will truly tell me what i want and after its tuned and i see some numbers ill just either do what he did or go down another rd which i am sure ill ask you guys about

[intacivic16v]

my mate that over heated his car on the cruise was running a fair amount of boost at the time and only really tuned for power. Before that the car was only running small boost on a standard b16a and thing was perfect he never had a problem with it, and he used to flog the crap out of it every day. Yeah it did heat up more than when it was N/A, but thats to be expected with all that extra heat from the turbo.