Sell Pork buy Honda. Durp.

[Snoozin]

I've put some brand new Tein Mono Sport dampers in, tweaked the ride height and it's back on my fav set of wheels for now. Waiting in the ceiling is a lip, wing and carbon mirrors from Mode Parfume/Exceed that I just need to sack up and get painted/attach to the car.

I note I also have a small oil leak from somewhere that I'll need to find, but I am getting a little keen on pulling the engine out for a rings and bearings refresh/clean everything up all spiffy like.

[mjrstar]

Looks great!

Whats the reasoning behind planning a strip down..

Is it down on compression, or smokey?

I found the stock breather system lends itself to putting quite a bit of oil into the inlet manifold when at high revs with the throttle closed. 

[Snoozin]

Uses a little oil, and occasional smoke but nothing serious (for a B series anyway). Just keen on getting everything as close as I can to minty spec/I'm bored and currently have no car projects as such.

[mjrstar]

Oh man, I'd be putting the stock b series aside and sliding a nicely fettled b20 vtec, with a b18 engine tag on it back in there.. the engine tags cut off pretty easily (to make your b20 magically into a b16 or b18)with some patient hacksawing.. well apparently 

[Snoozin]

Haha nah nah this car's destiny is to remain fairly close to stock with a suite of period-spec bolt on bits. More concours than racecourse.

[RUNAMUCK]

Cummon Ritchie,

You know you want to fit three spoon engines with MoTec exausts.......

[Honda Ass Dragger]

57 minutes ago, mjrstar said:

Oh man, I'd be putting the stock b series aside and sliding a nicely fettled b20 vtec, with a b18 engine tag on it back in there.. the engine tags cut off pretty easily (to make your b20 magically into a b16 or b18)with some patient hacksawing.. well apparently 

I have often though about doing B20 before I went Turbo

I got put off by cylinder wall cracking and for the effort involved a well built b18 will make nearly as much jam

[mjrstar]

19 minutes ago, Honda Ass Dragger said:

I have often though about doing B20 before I went Turbo

I got put off by cylinder wall cracking and for the effort involved a well built b18 will make nearly as much jam

Yeah if you aren't going crazy then stock block  is OK, you need to put another 4 grand aside for a set of darton sleeves if you want to go wild..

and then youd net far better results with forced induction... that's the downside of most na engine builds, the turbo option is just so much easier to make reliable power.

Stock b18cr go alright with a gearset, but not going to set the world on fire. 

[Honda Ass Dragger]

I'm looking forward to L15B becoming cheaper and more affordable - as I suspect they will become a great swap option once ecu tech catches up

 

 

[Snoozin]

7 hours ago, mjrstar said:

Yeah if you aren't going crazy then stock block  is OK, you need to put another 4 grand aside for a set of darton sleeves if you want to go wild..

and then youd net far better results with forced induction... that's the downside of most na engine builds, the turbo option is just so much easier to make reliable power.

Stock b18cr go alright with a gearset, but not going to set the world on fire. 

No one's building any flash engines for this car, it's perfect the way it is.

[DB8-TypeR]

A near stock B18CR is a beautiful thing

[kws]

Not gonna lie, I adored (and regret selling) my B18CR ITR with a turbo kit on it. That thing was awesome to drive, shame I was too young to respect it and got rid of it before I died in it.