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Can anybdy tell a honda engine just by looking at it?

i was wonderin if anybdy can tell a honda engine just by poppin open the hood to look at it? do b16's , b18's , h22's all look different?.. cuz my friend said he can tell the difference.. anybdy else?
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look at some pics of these engines. very easy to tell the difference.
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yea very easy to tell.
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lol...damn.. i suck at this.. can anybdy post pictures and do side by side comparisons? i'm sooo lost.. is it the engine cover that determines it? cuz i notice alot of b16s being red at the top and b18s bein black...h22 grey top..idk
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yes hella easy!
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theres is a big difference in intake manifolds on the B16 and B18 engines. Thats about all ive noticed but i really havent spent much time in trying to figure that out
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not too hard....check em out

mabye if someone wasn't so lazy..IE me
they would post some pics
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Originally posted by ThaitaniumGK
lol...damn.. i suck at this.. can anybdy post pictures and do side by side comparisons? i'm sooo lost.. is it the engine cover that determines it? cuz i notice alot of b16s being red at the top and b18s bein black...h22 grey top..idk
Naw they usually all come black. u can get different valve covers. sometimes a true Type R comes red. about it
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not too hard....check em out

mabye if someone wasn't so lazy..IE me
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haha yea that lazy thin gis killing me right now. I'll probably do it maybe when i get home. i dnuno will see.
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for some reason, i can tell the H22 from the b16 and b18 from the size of it. it just looks bigger cause of the displacement (but that would mean it is taller, i dunno). i just peep the engine code engraved in the side of the transmission housing
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i just peep the engine code engraved in the side of the transmission housing

yea or you can do that to.
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Originally posted by bluericeburna2k2
look at some pics of these engines. very easy to tell the difference.
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