I want to do a B18 swap in my 93 Del Sol S. It currently has the "Powered by Hamsters" D15 in it. I'm doing the B18 swap, and turboing it. I'm looking for 300+whp. (or whatever to get it into the 11's) but still be daily driven. I'm looking for lots of information.
First... Which B18 is best? Money isn't the issue because I can get the motor cheap. I want to make a lot of power, so it'll be rebuilt. I was told the B18C1 is the way to go. Someone else said LS non-vtec.

So, I need to know which is best for boost, and why. And how about the tranny?

Secondly, what do I need to rebuild on it? Obviously low compression pistons and some good rods. But what about a cam, port 'n polish, ect ect?

Also, I'm doing some research on turbo components and systems. Now, I'm going to have a full computer built into the car, so if there's a good system to run on a laptop or whatever, let me know, cause I'll have the computer in there.
Otherwise, what else is there I should get?
Any information regaurding turbo, components, manifolds, pumps, ect, let me know what's good! I want to build a good system.

Not counting the cost of the motor swap, I would guess to have like $3-4k, maybe more for the turbo sys. But who knows. I want to build it as efficiently as possible.

Thanks for any help and time contributed.

 

300 whp....look to spend around 7k including, motor, sleeves, turbo, hondata or equivalent, dyno time, etc etc etc

 

Any price stuff I'm looking for without the motor swap included, since I kinda get those for abnormal prices. However, I'm not really too concerned about the cost stuff, but rather, I'm looking for what motor, what turbo, what components, ect ect ect.

 

b20 AEBS sleeved, pauter rods, ross pistons, o-ringed, Hondata or AEM EMS, t3/04 hybrid turbo, turbo manifold, 3 inch down pipe with 3 inch back, oil lines/coolant lines, BOV, external wastegate, greddy profec B original boost controller, DSM injectors with resistor box, or RC injectors, front mount intercooler, intercooler piping.

 

Key word... B18. O.o; I didn't do any research on a B20. I'm sure it's a lot more expensive and a lot harder to find, right? Plus the swap probably isn't as easy as a bolt and go.

 

The only problem with the b20 franken swap that i have heard about is if you advance the cams too far pistons will contact the head. Nt sure if thats true or not. Id stick to the b18c1

 

With the b20 you also have to worry about the rods. The b20 rods are built to drive the CRV at lower rpms. When you put the b16 or b18 head on there and run it up to 7,8,or 9K things have a tendency to snap. Plus adding on the turbo you are just asking for trouble. I know of a number of b20 swaps and none of them made it more than 20K without throwing a rod. B18c1's are nice with a turbo but I think that the b18a and/or b18b has a lower compression ratio which is better for a turbo

 

A: the b20 and b18 is the exact same motor with the exception of bore.
B: nobody ever said anything about it being a b20/vtec swap
C: the B20 swap is the exact same swap as the b18
D: please learn to read before you start throwing up the "I heard from a friend who had a dog that knew a guy who spun a bearing at 20k" stories.
E: most of the questions you are asking can be found by doing a simple search so I would recomend doing so.
F: if you want to do the b18c swap and looking for around 300whp talk to WestCoastStyle, he was pushing around 300 with Hondata and rods and pistons.

 

Learn how not to be an ass before you make a comment hes looking for sugestions and the comments about hearing stuff about a certain swap might steer him away from such a thing. So you need to think before you type. Though I do not agree with the spun a bearing at 20k that just means they didnt look over the motor as they should have or they were a little too harsh on it.