Originally Posted by green91
The point of a swap is raise you baseline and replace that beat up, smoking d-series in your EF. Dollar for dollar I highly doubt that you will be better off with a d-series unless youre stating with a Si. Why?
1. Most EFs motors are beat to death
2. Most EFs come with a 8 valve d-series or a d15b2
So you gotta do a swap, you can a) get a cheap motor off the street (and risk getting a worse more than you have) or you can order a JDM d15b thats going to run you about $700 after shipping. Cool, now you have this sorry ass, long geared tranny. You need to swap that out too. Spend $250 on a zc tranny after shipping or gear a local Si tranny for about $200? Might as well buy a clutch, gasket kit, and all of your odds and ins. That about another $300 depending on where you go and which brand you went with. Your total is about $1200 to $1250 depending where you get everything from or if you got stuff used. Now you got about $800 to pay with. You buy a intake, get a exhaust, and header and your $2000 funds are tapped out. Congrats you now have a non smoking d15b installed, but not running because you forgot to get a p28 and your obd0 to obd1 conversion harness. Now your around $2300 and making 150hp to the wheels, I mean 125hp (if that much) to the wheels. Congrads you're off to a great start.
On the other hand,
You saved your money and now you want to go DOHC VTEC!!!You goto hmotors and pay $1700 for you motor, tranny, and ecu. You get a new clutch, gasket kit, and odds and ins, for $400. Cool, you're just at $2100. So, your about to drop your motor in, DAMNIT!!! You need mounts. You holla at innovative and bam $200 later your motor is ready to go in. You motor is in, your budget didn't allow you to get an aftermarket shift linkage, so you modded yours and did you swap for $2300. For the same amount of money that your homie spent for his d15b you got 10hp motor without any mods and more potential.
I have seen sohc that will beat gsr,and b16 thats why I dont knock them.
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