[edman24]

even the gsr's r/s ratio isnt great but thats besides the point. im so sick and tired of hearing that lsvtec and crvtec are unreliable. you know why people say that? first of all you have inexperienced people trying to build a motor. when that happens of course it will not be reliable but only due to error of the mechanic. but thats not even the biggest problem with this setup. its overrevving. you have idiots out there who do the lsvtec or crvtec and think they can rev to 9500rpm and have no problems because their head is built. YOUR HEAD IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT HAS MOVING PARTS IN IT!! when you do the frankenstein setup you have to realize that the block was not designed to withstand 9000rpm on either ls or b20 blocks. if youre not a moron you should have no problem with lsvtec or crvtec and be very happy with it. dont overrev and that setup will last as long as any other vtec engine. i mean would you rev a b18c to 11rpm? no. why? it wasnt designed to handle that. so why do it to an ls block?

i cant tell you how many people get so pissed off because they spent top dollar on their type r motor or gsr motor and i still smoke them with an engine that cost 1k-2k less then what they spent.

and people really need to stop talking about r/s ratio so damn much. do you spend the majority of your time at 9000rpm? i really dont think so. if you dont then you have no reason to be concerned with the r/s ratio. most of the time i dont have to get past 7500rpm to beat someone else and if i do go over that the most i take it to is 8500. every once in a while will not hurt the engine. just keep up with oil changes and you should have no problems.

so anything else?