Swap choice help & ideas.

[Noelito23]

Hey guys, need some help heres some info about me and my situation.

i daily drive a milano red gsr. owned it for about a year, i bought it as just a shell, found a nice gsr transmission for it, gave it a stage 1 exedy organic clutch with a 9lbs ACT flywheel.

b18b1 with a gsr tranny. I bought this motor for 150$ lol off someone i knew that knew someone (yeah one of those situations) so the motor lasted me about 8 months and it gave me a rod knock.

my teg has been sitting for a while and i have about 900$ to spend. i have 3 options i wanted to share with you guys and get different opinions and what i should do here.

i dont believe it is worth repairing, so i want to swap something else.

1. Get a jdm b18b from engine depot (700$)(i know i can just drop this right in.)



2. Get a B20 b/z (one with a P8R head) from Jdm engine depot (500-650$) High or low compression?( and would what would i need for this swap? i know i can just use my old LS(b18) intake.
bump my ls swapped gsr to a 2.0 and get a lil torque and displacement boost

3.also there is a local selling a b18c for only 300$, heres the catch, he said he pulled it cause it has no compression. is it worth it to make my teg a full gsr again?


Any help would be much appreciated guys, what do you guys think?

 

[Noelito23]

I'm really falling toward the b20, if jdm engine depot has one with the p8r head.

Oh and here's some pics of her

This was at how I had her dressed up for Honda Day 2013 Atco Raceway NJ

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[dlo253]

Sounds like you want the b20, go with that. To rebuild yours or the gsr will be more than $900.

 

[d@_b3st]

yeah sounds like you want the b20, I would just try and lower the price on the no compression b18c1 and rebuild it but thats just me, it would be a little more expensive that just swap a b20 but it would have a full gsr swap and VTEC lol glwyb car's coming along nicely

 

[NemesisCBR]

The BEST option would be to get the gsr (head for $300 thank you and giggity) and run it with the b20 but the head may or may not need/want a rebuild. If its in decent shape you can run it til u need a rebuild. You'd need a tune and of course extra work converting to vtec but heres a sub option if you cant break budget that much. Buy and save it for later, run b20 for now. Between the options given though, go b20.

 

[JustinMcGee1]

The BEST option would be to get the gsr (head for $300 thank you and giggity) and run it with the b20 but the head may or may not need/want a rebuild. If its in decent shape you can run it til u need a rebuild. You'd need a tune and of course extra work converting to vtec but heres a sub option if you cant break budget that much. Buy and save it for later, run b20 for now. Between the options given though, go b20.

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[MiketheDyke]

JDM Engine Zone in Clifton, NJ is $5 cheaper for the B18B lol

And I personally went to JDM Engine Depot. The engine room was pretty big and they also have a lot of JDM parts. The staff was very helpful and friendly too.