My LS/VTEC head conversion is finished (pics)
 

So I scored an obd1 GS-R Head and Intake Manifold basically for free, and decided to ls/vtec my car.

THIS ------- SUCKED! Just wanted to say that first, haha. Friday night at about 6pm Mike and I got started. Ran into all sorts of little bullshit along the way and this entire thing took way too long. All said and done with the little ---- to deal with and the trips to get ----, we finished at about 2:30AM, and I went to bed at about 2:45 AM.

Exactly 3 hours later at 5:45 AM, my alarm clock went off, its time to go to work! :7

But it all runs great now and here are the final results.

Finished setup is b18a1 block, b18c1 head, b16a2 transmission, and a donor clutch from a jdm itr swap, not too shabby for a broke nigga.

So here is what I started with, the old LS head
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The beginning tearing everything off
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This is the transplant gs-r head thats going on, threaded and tapped for the plugged oil channel
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Had some broken parts I had to replace though, but for a free head, who can complain?
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Stealthmode sells an oil line kit for this, oooh shiny (note, what appears to look like rust on the block deck is actually just bad lighting)
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Makin progress, head is on and workin on timing belt and water pump. We used the GE Dowels for this, and a stock LS headgasket, just a little die grinder action to make it fit over the dowels and its all good.
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And thats about it for pictures, here it is all finished pretty much.
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Oh a couple more, check out this one, the intake was all like oxidized to ----, it looks bad but I'll probably do something about that later.
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Now I know the strange JDM poses are somewhat a tradition, but in all the excitement I decided ---- all that...I'M GONNA HUMP THIS LITTLE FUCKER
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With my 2.25" exhaust and that short ram it sounds pretty mean. I think I do need to ditch the obd0 LS exhaust mani and get rid of the catylitic to gain some top end out of it. I based it out with a b16 rom in crome and adjusted the multiplier to 1.8L displacement, seems to run pretty good like that. I do plan on tossing the wideband in and giving it a full tune later of course.

Special thanks to those that sat by and tolerated my million questions previous to doing this conversion...AbaZ, 88dx, maybe leed, probably turbohf...and anyone else.

Re: My LS/VTEC head conversion is finished (pics)
 

Good ----, let's get some videos and what not.

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Hot ---- man looks good

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No videos, that requires a camcorder...

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ls/vtec is always a fun motor set up.


Wire wheel will own all that nasty stuff on that manifold and ya that stock ls manifold no good

wish I could find gsr heads for free

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looks good man, just for future referance, if you use a Vtec head gasket (gsr/b16/itr) with the GE dowel pins you do not have to drill anything or enlarge ANY holes.

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So what turbo are you going to put on there?

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Hey, I'm going to run that too except I'm having to pay for mine, but the conversion kit is already installed! Also I'll have the extra kick of a turbo too :P

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I am doing a ls/vtec setup also, you saw the drunken night I ordered, its already prepped for it.
I did a test fit with a stock ls headgasket and the KMS dowel pins, and it did not require any machining of the head gasket, so I guess its only with the Ge ones.

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looks good jason, how does it run?

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+1 on the free head deal. I'm not to knowledged when it comes to the intake mani's, but i was just wondering if that's one of the newer gsr intake's that has the butterfly valve in it? And if so, can crome be made to run them as well or is that an actual ecu mod that would have to be done? Sorry for the stupid questions, but i'm mostly a d-series head that's more or less gone B now too.

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all 94+gsr ran the 3 piece manifold w/fly's. crome has code to run them but you must had the feature in the ecu has obviosuly p28 doesnt run it has they dont have them has they run a single piece mani. Gsr manifold actually performs really well when you cut them up and divide up the runners but unless you have 8+hours to port best bet is switch to blox,skunk,aebs etc. Ericks racing still sports the gsr intake manifold on all there all motor builds

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thats negative ghost rider! I just went back to the garage and check the headgasket and dowel pin, I do have to machine it, it took me about 10 minutes.
you still have to machine the head gasket, right after I made this post I went to the garage to check.

Re: My LS/VTEC head conversion is finished (pics)
 

You need a pic of the old LS head in the trash ;) I wish i was doing motor work to my car :-[

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or in a box bein sent to Chris :)

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yea the butterfly's are no longer in that head. never were. and jason the reason the manifold is soo bad i think its from all the battery acid from the guys car accident. and yea it took way to ------- long. i have done complete b series swaps in half that time it took us. prolly would have gone alot quicker at my old garage though since that is pretty much where everything is still at. haha. anyways ---- fook your car runs waaaaay smoother and it actually idles now so ---- it. :6

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oh yeah big thanks to this ------- for helping me out. fuckhead. :S

we could probably work something out, make it worth my time and effort and we might be able to get that rollin. I have the obd1 intake mani sitting here too with an iacv

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lol i'm an idiot

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hes talking about the ls gasket
You two need to get some reading skillzzzzz.

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is it that much faster now?

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there is a signifigicant gain all across the powerband yes, but its probably even more noticeable since my LS was running so poorly before the conversion.

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whats the oil line for

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To supply the head wit some oil for vtaklebox

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lol

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has I said you do have to machine both the ls and the vtec head gaskets, I checked the last night.

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ok, let me type this on my own


If you use golden eagle dowel pins, you do not (that was DO NOT) have to enarge ANY dowel holes if you use a GSR/B16/ITR headgasket, tell me you have to enlarge all you want, but i have done MANY vtec conversion @ the shop with oem headgaskets strait from honda and you do not have to do anything but set them over the dowel pins... you do have to enlarge if you use an ls gasket.

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oh shutup.

pointless bickering.

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I just dont like it when people are miss-informed.