pissedoffsol

first, it's VTEC. pop your ------- hood and read your valve cover.

as for the article, it's bullshit. ANY Engine is only as good as YOU or the BUILDER builds it.

OEM Honda is built to perfection.
your garage LS/VTEC probably won't last for ----. but, built properly, there is NO reason why it won't last for 100k miles.

pissedoffsol

there's chevy and ford motors with 1.5:1 rod stroke ratio revving to 9 grand.

the difference between an ls's r/s and a gsr's r/s is with in a couple hundreth's of each other--- not tenths- HUNDRETHS.

if ls/vtec is bad, than so must be a gsr
:hammer:

fast2camciv

totaly agree if you use new parts in the rebuild and build everything to spec then basically it is the same as honda would have built it on the assembly line. the only way the rod ration would come into play is if you were at 8200 rpm every time you shifted gears. an ocasional rev to 8k isnt gonna hurt the motor. if you look at the rod ratios in b16's and gsr's they are that big of a difference. i had an ls\vtec and built it properly and ran very strong for almost 2 years before i sold the car. it and the crvtec are the 2 motors honda should have built instead of the b16 and gsr!

shortyz

imo i would keep the like 600-1000$ u pay for a b16a or b18c head and spend it on like.. sleeves on the b18a

then go crazy with the boost heh

88crxSi

stock parts? i dont think so, put some LS sized rods/pistons from like arias or some crap and im sure they can rev too.

Last_Mohican

not sure the article is crap or how you could say that. Not sure where you get pop the Fing hood because yes under my hood is a vtech but it is a 2.3L vtech. An engine reving 9 grand at 1.5 ratio is stupid on stock internals but i am sure they are not stock assuming you want the engine to last at all. As far as saying Honda should not have made the b16 ..wow i just hope you can back that up cuase you might not think that the ratio is important but it sure helps out the b16. Pissedoffdelsol not sure why you think the ratio does not matter because i hate to tell you but it does. I am in no way putting the ls/vtech down cause it has shown good numbers but i was just putting up the post to hear input. If you dont like to rev high often or you like your engine to have more stress or you dont want your engine to last long then Ls/vtech is a nice build for power gains.

HMT-Admin

I've been spinning my LS/vtec 8400 for over 12k miles... and boosted for 5k. So far so good