Quote Originally Posted by southside
Seems like you are lacking Honda knowledge buddy,Chipped ecu is good and all but tuned is the best way to go.Paying 140$ for a chipped ecu instead of spending another 140$ and getting your car tuned to run safely.Its up to you to protect your investment.Also you can run b16 pistons in a ls block. Unless you go to oversized then you will have to get oversized b16 pistons..25,.50 over from stock bore which is 81mm.Eagle rods are a good way to reliability.But if your el cheapo then arp rod bolts would help you rev safely.The weak part of ls motors is the rod bolts not the rods.Stock ls rods will rev safely to 8k max.Any higher and boom only reason it seems weird is because you dont trust Ls bottom ends due to the fact of people building them wrong and them blowing.Then they blame honda saying they have weak product.When really dumb dumbs try to rev stock ls to 9k 24/7
lol dude, who gives a fuk about who knows more about honda knowledge, if your on a budget and have a stock ls vtec then you would go with a chipped ecu... i can see if you were boosting then get like hondata or some type of engine managment...but thats money, plus 140 would just be for some dyno tuning, you still need some kinda shit hooked up that you can tune...you really dont need all that for an ls/vtec to be realiabe...i said in my post that phearable makes very good ecu's...they are safe to run. on the other hand i agree with you about the rod bolts...i have stock ls rods on mine with arp rod bolts and i rev to 8k...dont do it normally but its been done.


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i have a stock b16 head...i want some cams tho!...maybe some stage 2 bc cams.