yesterday on my way home from work, my damn timing belt went out (78k miles). i had my baby towed to this shop that does alot of work (mechanical and after market) on my car and they said i should replace my water pump too so i was like ok, do whatever..i jsut want my car back! well i called over there and asked if he could throw in a valve job for me only to find out that when the timing belt went, so did all 4 valves on the first cylinder now keep in mind my fiance and i are going on vacation in 3 days so forking out the cash to fix my timing belt was enough for now! instead of replacing the 4 bent valves etc etc, i thought maybe i should save and go for the ls/vtec conversion?!?! ive heard alot of good things about that and was wondering what everyone else thinks about going that route as well. btw, what are the power gains if i went that way? thanks alot and sorry for it being so long...it feels good to let it all out! im so pissed at my car right now! thanks for all replies and help.

 

I have never seen any dyno sheets on just a LS/VTEC so I can't remark on the gains but if you want to go this route you need to rebuild the bottom end to handle the higher revving of the VTEC. I would say go for it I have heard good things about it also and if you can do the work yourself you can save a lot of money. The gains would really be dependent on the parts that you would use for the build.

 

ttt:thumbup:

 

the guy told me to do a ls/vtec swap on my teg, with all parts and installation, it would run $1500. is that a good price? has anyone done this themselves and just got their own parts? any and all help would be cool. thanks!

 

more power to you. i'm in the same boat, just fubared valves on 2 cyl. on my ls, i just did a motor swap for a used jdm b18b since it was about 1000.00 less than building my ls on my own doing all labor, i got a used jdm with under 50,000 miles for 850.00 and dropped it in myself, i wanted to do a type r or gsr but since i'm in the same boat as you and about to walk down the isle my budget couldn't swing it either. good luck and let me know how it goes

 

Are valve problems common?

 

Does that 1500 include new rods and pins becuase the stock ones won't handle the higher revving that the VTEC will push out. The swap seems like a good idea but if the budget is really tight then just replace the head.