Go ah beng style lah.. more colourful. Like it or not, they're the prime examples of what NOT TO DO to your car.. he he he.
The difference with the K20A we see in Malaysia in the ES and FD civics here are not visually different, but it's be interesting to know that the heads are internally different, which is why one is 155hp and the DC5 is 200+hp.
I think the heads are not even interchangable, or someone would have figured out how to plonk in the R heads into the K20s in the ES/FD by now, and get easy 170hp or so (lower maybe due to factors like piston compression and stroke setup?)
Anyway, for most of us, we want the best performance for each ringgit we spend, or else most of us would be scratching everywhere for moolah for a Skyline GTR or some other car.
320K or so for a R34, and imagine what we could achieve with 120K on a honda, and there's your answer on why some honda heads still drive a honda. :P (even some that actually own a skyline, but has a modded honda with K20 swaps)
Heck some americans even buy the toda ITBs for honda which are retailing in US for near 10K, which is a hefty downpayment for some serious performance cars. Well, you could say that americans are idiots, but gotta admire their way of thinking.. Instead of "Why should I mod" like most car owners here, they ask "Why shouldn't I mod?)
A modded honda may not look like a skyline/rx8/etc, but it can sure scare some of us shitless when you floor the throttle of a B20B (or for some of the lucky ones, K20A/K24).
And if you happen to get it scratched or get it into an accident, you won't have too many sleepless nights thinking about the loss. :P (assuming that you didn't die along with the car)
If skyline/evo/etc... wah.. I'd grow white hairs by the dozen by now if I got one wrecked.
Ditto with the engine.. break a B16A, ah, next month buy another one.. it's only like about 1K+ now.
If others.. haha I can already imagine people squirming at the cost, even more if the skyline/evo is their only car.
