Rex, you give me too much credit!
The reason I am looking at the B is because I honestly don't know anything about them. My initial post was pretty much accurate. I know the heads are flat! Thats about it!
I just think it would be fun to come at the problem (making HP) from a totally different angle. Doing the flathead four seemed like such a quantum leap from my present car that it intrigues me.
Making the HP with the Honda is easy. It revs to the moon and the stock head breathes better than most high dollar aftermarket Chevy heads. All that is gone (long gone!) if I start with a B.
I thought it would be neat to take a B, make a crank girdle, put a good set of rods and pistons in it. Probably have to run an external oil pump, Make a new high compression head and do up a neat I-R fuel injection manifold & header and see what it will do. Honestly, I will probably find that it makes less HP than what others have done in the past but I will enjoy doing it and learn something. Then I'll throw a big ass turbo on it!
But, all that is in the future. Right now, the Civic is parked, patiently waiting for the first event in May. I am spending all my time on my drag racing minivan (1989 Dodge Caravan!!!). I need to get the new turbo motor done and back in within the next month or so. That way I have time to make a few runs and blow it up before I switch back to SCTA runnning. I won't start then B project (if at all) untill I finish (i.e. blow up) the Caravan. But that should only take a couple of months.
