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hey everyone i am finally a civic owner... i have a 92 civic hatchback with a 1.5. what all can i do with this engine?

 
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You can do alot to it but you really wouldnt get any great gains out of it. It all depends on what your are wanting to spend.

 
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well i wanted to do thing little by little... such as intake, then headers, exhaust... but after that, i am stuck and dont know what would be next... maybe cam? eventually get turbo if its possible... but if i cant do much with that engine then maybe i should save up for a different engine.... I know this might be a dumb question but what are the meanings of all the different letters such as ek, jdm, terminology... im new to hondas..

 
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I have a 92 civic hatch. I didn't want to spend a lot of money either so I did headers, intake, exhaust. Its a 1.5L with a 1.6L head and a v-tec ecu. Very inexpensive and you'll notice a difference. Like the other guy said, these cars are very limited. Fun cars tho!

 
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The d15 can gain some power especiallly if you throw a turbo on it but it will not match the power of the rest of the honda motors. You can do whatever mods to the d15 as the rest but it really wouldnt be worth it cause the gains will be small. I mean you can take a d15 with bolt ons and turbo it and run bout 5 psi and just be beating the k20a3 or the b18c1.

For your 92 hatch i recommend on swapping the b18c1(gsr) in cause it wouldnt be to hard and wouldnt need much like the k series motors. The d15 only has bout 105 hp or something like that and that doesnt count for the 15% drivetrain loss to the wheels, and the fact that the low liter its hard to make big gains. The b18c1 has 170 hp and 128 trq to the wheels it will be 144 whp and round 108 trq so easy to get up to 170 with bolt ons (bolt ons is headers, intake, exhaust). Then after that just grab a cheap turbo off ebay and slap it in there and then tune it. Run low psi at first since stock internals. Then after that you can upgeade your internals to run more boost.

The ef, eg, ek, ep, fa, fg, those are the chassis codes for the honda cars. Every car has there chassis code on them its on the vin # its the 4th number to the 7th #. JDM is japan domestic motors. N/A means natural aspiration which means you do not do an aspiration change which is turbo and supercharger. I/H/E means intake, header, exhaust.Always happy to help.