power increase

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macd

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197 months

Sunday 27th January 2008
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Doese any one know if i swap the camshaft and ecu in my 1.8 vtec for the ones out of a 2.0 vtec will the power increase i done it in my old fiesta but not sure a bout the honda toh and what model is my accord 1.8 sohc vtec thanks

Edited by macd on Sunday 27th January 23:38

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

218 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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You had a 1.8 VTEC in your Fiesta?

havoc

30,093 posts

236 months

Tuesday 29th January 2008
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Don't feed the trolls Dan!!

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macd

Original Poster:

8 posts

197 months

Thursday 7th February 2008
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no had a 1.8 16v but if you sap the camshaft and ecu for the ones in the rs1800 it got a good power increase the accord feels like nothing till 4000 ish rpm

Holst

2,468 posts

222 months

Saturday 9th February 2008
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macd said:
no had a 1.8 16v but if you sap the camshaft and ecu for the ones in the rs1800 it got a good power increase the accord feels like nothing till 4000 ish rpm
You can buy aftermarket cams for most hondas.

But you will need to get it dyno tuned and buy a system like Hondata to tune it.
Which is expensive.

You could possibly drop an accord type R engine in, or a prelude H22A

10 Pence Short

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Sunday 10th February 2008
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You're absolutely wasting your money on trying to tune the 1.8 in an Accord. It was never designed for power and aftermarket tuners don't really do anything of note for it.

Your only real choice to make decent power in that bodyshell is to buy an H series 2.2 from either an Accord Type-R or Prelude and go from there. There are many more bits available for those engines.