The breaking period of your motor should affect your overall power very much. Given the fact that the seated rings will be compressing your power. I remember back many years ago...talking with a few buddies of mine from dynamics autosport, we were debating about the power difference with the ring set for the pistons. If you follow proper textbook procedures for proper ring sets and positions...you sill have a certain % of compressed power leaked through. While setting the rings slightly differnt from the text specs...showed a slight increase in compression. The differnt placements was still gap free from the compression and power stroke. I'm sure the power and compression difference is nill but seems like something to look into. Especially with na...everything counts. There was also many discussion about knife edging, weighted, and reduced weight cranks. All things you should look into. Just food for thought. I do believe the major power will come from the head and cams....but don't count out these other factors. GL to you.

 

shot peen and micro polish the stock rods
use p30 ctr pistons
use p30 ctr cams
use either ctr or itr valve springs and retainers
have a 3 angle valve job done
port and polish the ---- out of the head
port the hell out of the stock intake mani.
port the stock throttle body
use a good quality intake and header, with full exhaust
chip and tune the computer

and you'll notice this set up has no aftermarket parts except the intake/header/exhaust, and i gaurantee this set up will rip in the high rpm's for auto x....

 

it pays to read no itr/ctr/gsr parts. Only b16. Hmm...i guess most ppl think its easy to put over 200 to the wheels with a b16

 

i read a story is some car mag a couple years ago about b16's and they had said back then that you could count the number of 200 WHP b16 on one hand.. and that with alot of work.. its not super hard to put them up in the 170-185 WHP range with nothing more than cams headwork ect. but to get one to clip that magic 200 # it takes alot of time and effort... i say do exactly as chris states as he is the all motor guy and does it for a living.. im also sure he has done quite a few b16 all motor that are up in the 170-180 range..

 

Lol...I think you're right. Most people hear that magic "ooh b16 mad dual cam vtec action yo!" and think 200hp is at their fingertips. From the amount of digging around I've been doing it seems the majority of the ustcc b16 equipped cars are making around the 170 range, so as long as we can get up to that or close we should have no problems being competetive.

 

I hit over 200 whp with a b16.


vrrrooooom.....pssst.


I swear it was all motor!


Yeah. I've heard MILLIONS of people claim over 200 whp with their b16. I've only seen 1. But I have seen many more b18cs! GL on the competition Slo! I'm sure you'll get it just right!

 

If we wanted to go that route I hit 317 from my b16 last summer All stock motor to boot