Originally posted by eclipse spanker
point well taken.......its just that dont you guys think that if this was a very reliable setup, that honda would have already been mass producing it in some high performance integra or something ? I'm not saying that the setup is not fast.....you can look at 1/4 mile times for ls/vtecs and you can see that they kick ass.... I'm just saying that if the setup was all its cracked up to be...honda would have had the foresight to see this, and they would have taken advantage of it.
with a little more headwork, PVO can get over 600 hp out of the viper V10, but they chose not to do it. why? because it would cost them more money. you have to remember, if honda can save a dollar on every car they produce, multiply that by the enormous amount of cars they produce, and you have a huge chunk of change. a perfect example is Chrysler. they quit putting curcuit protection in all of the PCM's. this saved them roughly a dollar a car, and they expect that to add up to about $1.5 million in one year.
Originally posted by jeems
well can you even buy an engine from honda new?
yes you can. i can get a complete OBD I B18C1 from an acura dealership for about $3400 (employee discount), and that is new, not a re-man.