How To Build Honda Horsepower
How to Build Honda Horsepower is an all inclusive book that reveals the best and right ways to maximize Honda engine performance.
The Honda engine is one of the most reliable vehicle components in the world. With its history on roadways and race tracks, the best engineers and developers have consistently produced engines with a higher power output, greater fuel efficiency and a quieter performance. With Honda establishing the standard, it's almost hard to believe you could actually make it better. But this book shows that it's not only possible, but it carefully delineates the most streamlined processes for getting the job done.
Content
To maximize Honda engine performance, How to Build Honda Horsepower has eight well detailed chapters that cover all aspects of the Honda engine that test and compare engine components. You will learn the basics, the specifics and have access to a comprehensive resource guide.
The book starts with an in-depth look at dyno testing. It proceeds with a study of the air intake system for each of Honda's engines. Discover the value of stock air intakes with comparisons to APC Toucan, RS Akimoto and Comptech, among others. The chapter on Heads, Cams and Sprockets looks at adjustable cam sprockets and other elements to help make the best decisions about replacing or upgrading these parts. There is extensive coverage of big boost bolt-ons and turbochargers. The final chapter is about the actual build up of engines like the Bonneville and discusses the results of the author's tests on Honda models.
If you are ready to maximize Honda engine performance, this book has all the information you will ever need and more to get started and finished in no time at all.
The Author
Richard Holdener has been writing about cars and performance for a long time. Among the magazines he's contributed to are European Car, Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords, Truckin', Popular Hotrodding, Mustang Illustrated, Sport CompactCar, Car Craft, Super Ford, Pontiac Enthusiast and others. He also is the author of Building Honda K-Series Engine Performance and Dyno-Proven GM LS1 thru LS7 Performance Parts. He has been a horsepower fanatic since his first car show as a young boy. Holdener collects, tests and upgrades high performance machinery the way some people collect baseball cards. Like all his material, How to Build Honda Horsepower isn't just about sharing his love of the auto, but to help others enhance their own experiences behind the wheel. Richard Holdener authored the Xtreme Honda B-Series Engines book, also available from TheMotorBookstore in the Engine Rebuilding section.
Subject: How To Build Honda Performance. ISBN-10: 1613251114 | ISBN-13: 9781613251119 | CarTech Books SA71P
- Air Intake Systems - Long and Short Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B18A, B20 Hybrid, D15B7, D16Y, D16Z
- Air Intake Systems (long and short) compared and contrasted with each other per engine type:
- AEM. RS Akimoto, Iceman, Modified Iceman, Stock Air Intake, Comptech, Hosetech, K&N Drop-In Filter, K&N Air Intake, Stillen, K&N, APC, APC Toucan
- Intake Manifolds & Throttle Bodies Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B20, D16Z, B18A
- Intake Manifolds compared and contrasted for each engine type:
- Throttle Body-Stock, RC Engineering, Del Sol Intake Manifold, Type R Intake Manifold, Stock B16A Intake Manifold, Extrude Hone ported Del Sol Manifold, Venom Intake Manifold, Skunk Intake Manifold, Killer Bee Racking Intake Manifold, Stock B18A Intake Manifold, Extrude Hone-Ported B18A Intake Manifold and STR Intake Manifold
- Throttle Bodies compared and contrasted on B18A
- Holley 62-mm Throttle Body vs Stock 55-mm (supercharged)
- Intake Manifolds & Throttle Bodies Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B20, D16Z, B18A
- Intake Manifolds compared and contrasted for each engine type:
- Throttle Body-Stock, RC Engineering, Del Sol Intake Manifold, Type R Intake Manifold, Stock B16A Intake Manifold, Extrude Hone ported Del Sol Manifold, Venom Intake Manifold, Skunk Intake Manifold, Killer Bee Racking Intake Manifold, Stock B18A Intake Manifold, Extrude Hone-Ported B18A Intake Manifold and STR Intake Manifold
- Throttle Bodies compared and contrasted on B18A
- Holley 62-mm Throttle Body vs Stock 55-mm (supercharged)
- Heads, Cams and Sprockets Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B18A, B18C, D16Z
- Cams compared and contrasted for each engine type:
- Type R, June Stage 3, Stock Cams, Crane Cams, B16A Cams, Crowder 63401, Crowder 63402, Stock D16Z Cam, Competition Cams 59300, Stock B18C (GSR) vs Competition Cams 57200
- Cam Sprockets compared on B16A:
- Adjustable Cam Sprockets, Take I; Adjustable Cam Sprockets, Take II
- Heads compared on B16A:
- Stock B16A Head, Extrude Hone-Ported B-16A Head, Milled B16A Head
- Headers, Cats and Performance Exhaust Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B18A, D15B7, D16Y, D16Z
- Headers, Cats and Performance Exhaust components compared per engine type:
- MagnaFlow Cat-Back Exhaust, Chikara Header, Stock Exhaust Manifold, APEXi Civic and Integra Type R Headers, DC Sports 4-1 Header, DC Sports Tri-Y Header, Kamakazi 4-1 Header, Geddy Cat-Back Exhaust, Pacesetter Header, Thermal Cat-Back Exhaust, Chikara Header, Comptech Cat-Back Exhaust and Header, Stillen Header, Kamakazi Header (supercharged) and Jackson Racing Header
- Superchargers: Big Boost Bolt-Ons Comparison for the following Engines: B16A, B17C, B18A, B18C, B20, C30A, D16Z, F20C, H22
- Superchargers Compared:
- PowerTrain Dynamics LS, GSR (Powerdyne), Jackson Racing Supercharger, Vortech Supercharged/Intercooled Civic Si, Vortech SC Civic Si Big Boost, Vortech Supercharged Integra GSR, Jackson Racing Supercharged (Prelude, CRV, GSR), Comptech Supercharged NSX and S2000
- Turbocharged Terrors Comparison for the following Engines: B16A and B18C
- Turbocharger Topics Compared:
- Low-Buck B16A Turbo, Boost Wars: 12 psi vs 15 psi, .48 A/R Housing, .63 A/R Turbine Housing, Greddy Civic Si at 5.5-psi Boost, Greddy Civic Si at 7.1-psi Boost, Greddy GSR at 8.5-psi Boost, Drag Civic Si at 9.9-psi Boost, T3, T2/T04B Hybrid on B16A Motor
- Nitrous, ESU Chips and Underdrive Pulleys Comparisons for the following Engines: B16A, B18A, B18C5, B20/VTEC, D15B, D16Z
- Zex Nitrous Oxide
- Unorthodox Racing Underdrive Pulley, Remove Power Steering Pump
- ECUs (Chips) Comparisons:
- June ECU, Mugen ECU, Stock ECU, Hondata ECU, Comptech ECU, APEXi VTEC Controller
- Engine Buildup Discussions for the following Engines
- Supercharged D16Z, USTCC B16A 1.6L, Bonneville 2.0L LS/VTEC, 1834cc LS/VTEC, Street Performance D16Z, JG Engine Dynamics 2.0L Drag Motor, JG Engine Dynamics B18C Turbo Race Motor, Killer Bee Racing Supercharged B18C Stroker Motor
