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Originally Posted by Killa_CRX
I personally never said there was anything wrong with larger displacement engines... I simply got pissed off because you were talking about smaller displacement engines not being worth the time of day.
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I understand. I didn't intend it that way. One thing i've learned in my research on building good street cars is that you gotta have balance. Me personally, I can't be satisfied with a super-high strung engine revving up to 9000 rpms. It's just not my kind of car. If I were building a car for endurance racing where I could see myself in the high-rpm range all the time, low-end torque wouldn't matter much. Take a look at F1 race cars which many people compare the Integra Type R to. Those cars rev up to 10,000 rpms and make a lot of power there because that's where they spend a lot of time. But, for street racing and drag racing it's important to have power down low too.
Street cars spend most of there time somewhere between 3000 and 6500 rpms. So, wouldn't it make sense to build your car to make more power in the rpm range you drive in most? With the B20B turbo setup i'm considering, you would have a car that pulls hard all the way to 4300 rpms just from shear torque, then the turbo (or VTEC if you choose CRVTEC) kicks in and will carry you even further into 7000 rpms. That's serious power!!
Just like any engine, the B20B has its share of flaws, most notably it's sleeves. There are aftermarket sleeves available as well as forged pistons, rods, cranks, block girdles, etc. Everything is available to build this engine into a bulletproof monster. The engine is major cheap on top of that. Around $750 for the long block.