Hey ya'll. Just bought my first honda about 6 weeks ago. A bone-stock 2000 civic si. Excellent condition and extremely clean motor, especially for 91k miles on it already. I have a feeling it was somewhat babied. It seems as fast as it was probably new, without the a/c on of course. I just had a tune-up, and timing belt+waterpump etc replaced. Using mobil 1 5w-30 and k&n oil filter. I've learned quite a bit the past couple of weeks reading on these forums. I'm just curious on what I should do next...performance wise. If its possible, in about a month or so I'd like to get a B18c5 swap and of course soon after do your basic bolt-ons and hondata tuning. Or... stick with the b16a and upgrade the intake, tb, intake man, header, exhaust, cams/gears and tune it, and possibly have the head port and polished for about 3-400 bucks (mild). We'll have to see how everything goes in the next couple of weeks, but if I stick to the b16a id like to push out around 175 whp, but obviously if i go the b18c5 swap id really love to get 200+ whp N/A with good reliability/driviablility on both options. Anyway, if i get the b18c5 swap (which I'm hoping for), i should have enough money in a couple months to do so (hopefully). I could just get a turbo, i guess, but since im only gonna be able to run at 5-6psi (stock), i'd almost rather just get the b18c5, which would give me almost as good a hp boost as the type-r motor (I think). And reliablilty/drivability is crucial for me. If I go with my b16a2, I will get the skunk2 stage 1 cams, or stage 2s (with valvetrain), skunk2 cam gears, skunk2 IM, and skunk2 TB; greddy/dc sports 4-2-1 header, greddy/hks exhaust, injen/aem cai and ngk iridium plugs/ngk wires. Everything tuned with a hondata. Blah, i've spoken enough LOL. I'm sure I'll have more questions soon enough, but hopefully I can get that b18c5 engine swap. BTW, how much would it cost for a compression test? Any suggestions on what I should do?

 

Welcome to the forum, looks like you got some good plans.