Need some advice. Opinions wanted!
 

Ok so I was lookin around and found an H22A for sale for about a thousand less than the B18C i was looking at...

I am wondering what the major differences are, aside from horsepower and torque, and why one would be better than the other.

Please give me your honest opinions and any facts you might have.. I want to buy the best motor I can buy for the money, and really dont have any experience with honda motors.

If you could consider the difficulty in installation that would be helpful, as I will be installing whatever engine I chose.

Also I plan to turbo this thing and have decided to go for about 300 hp as a target.

Hi, I don't know that much things on these engines but I think I'd take the B18C instead of the H22. Acura engines usually run faster (above 8000 RPM I think) than Honda except for the spoon that runs a lot greater xD

H22 may give more HP and less torque... So maybe it'll be easier to reach 200 HP qwith a H22 but your acceleration will be above under de B18....Last thing for you, I don't think a B18 is the right engine to get a turbo kit... Depending on the size...

So take this as an opinion because I don't have any facts to tell you xD I'd take e B18c

.... you have no idea what ur saying lol the h22 has less hp and more tq

I can't follow one single thing in your post. Plus about 99.9% of it is incorrect.

****ing french canadians

I'd go with the H22a....and doesn't it have like 200+ HP stock? H22s in civics make me happy :cool:

Well, I know a little bit about engines in general, and after hearing about the weak/thin cylinder walls in the H22a I have made up my mind.

B18C GSR motor is what i'm gonna go with. Lower compression than the Type R motor which is a good thing. I dont wanna have to walk on egg shells to tune this motor after throwing a turbo on it. Nor do I want to worry about the reliability with 11:1 compression turbo'd...

300 hp shouldn't be a problem either. 180hp stock and i'll spend about $3000 on the turbo kit as well.

Is there any websites out there that give audio clips of the exhaust sounds from their different types of exhuast kits for sale? I wanna buy something but dont wanna purchase it if its gonna make my car sound like a remote control airplane

Oh....I change my vote to the b18c too after reading you want to turbo...

good choice ;)

Why not resleeve with an h2b kit and piece together a kit (or supercharge)?

well, mainly because this is a project that me and my step father are completing ourselves... we're good mechanics but when it comes to technical stuff such as sleeving cylinders and doing transmission swaps and such, we fall short.

also i was hoping to have pulled the engine out, replaced it with the new one and have the car running in a weekends worth of work.. (turbo kit and other bolt ons will come later)

It is my daily driver, and it is my only vehicle so without it i wouldnt be able to get to work and back.

I think the b18c is an excellent engine, its a fairly simple swap to complete and with the proper tuning i could have a nice, fast vehicle that is reliable (with proper care) not taking anything away from the h22a but it just seems to be more trouble than its worth.. however the torque is nice...