so im thinkin bout tradin my car ive a got 95 ex with a d16z6 wanna turbo but also thinking about trading for 92 hatch with a b18b1 bottom b16 head
b16 pistons and a golden eagle lsv kit just wondering wat ur guys opinion is on it??? thanks for anything

 

i dont think anybody answered this thread because you spelled with "wit".

 

you are asking for our opinion, what do you want our opinions on?

The setup?
Reliability?
Power?

I could sit here and lecture you on lsv vs a gsr or b20v, but if you aren't giving me any specific things what am I going to talk about. I am very familiar with lsv and am going to be building one of my own soon. It is a good setup if you know what you are doing and do it right, taking shortcuts can ruin it all.

That is the exact same stup I am going with in that car, the B16 pistons in the b18b bottom end will put compression up to the 10.5-11 range, definitely help with putting down power. But the problem with there being pistons in the bottom end is trusting that whoever put them in did it right. Odds are they didn't have a shop do it. A lot of people think putting together the bottom end of an engine is easy, and a lot of those people think it is easy because they skip a lot of major steps. Such as torque procedures on things like the caps and the head. But the big thing a lot of people tend to not do is plastigauging the bearing clearences, if they are within spec you'll have some serious issues. So my main concern with the lsv would be if they knew what they were doing when they put it together. The head should be fine, especially with the golden eagle kit.

What trans is bolted to it?

And the other thing to look at would be finding out what ecu they have ran, assuming it is a chipped ecu probably p28 find out what the rev limiter is set at. For me that would be a big thing to base the engines life off of. If they have the rev limiter set at 8500/9000 I'd be wary, ls bottom ends red line at 6750, but for the vtec head to make power you need to rev it higher, most will take a stock lsv to like 8k, which is obviously well past the ls bottoms redline, but if they took it to 8k I'd be fine, assuming it isn't taken to 8k every single day. But if they go past 8k then don't even think about buying the motor, anything past 8k means it is screwed.

Hope this all helped, if you have anymore questions let me know.

 

thanks and if i have anymore questions i will ask u cus uve been tho most helpful haha