Thread: SR20VE vs. K20A

LOL.... The problems it did have we're self inflicted lol

My point exactly. Honda "does it right" every time you swap in a stock K20 into your car. There is no chance a machine shop is going to mess it up. And with SRs that chance seems to be quite high unless you take it to 2 or 3 known reputable places in the US. They seem to guard the secret tightly (for obvious reasons).

Ben that goes with anything.... If done right it will last. Anything built right will be reliable. Have it be a bar stool or a motor.

Yah. The argument was spend the money on a K-series swap, or spend in on a VE swap + displacement increase, etc. to end up with a better enthusiast car. Because the K swap costs an arm and a leg. I'm just saying, you do get some piece of mind that you're not chancing a botched sleeve job, etc. along with that price tag.

So I had a chance to meet up with the Integra guy again. Here's the story, he's put almost 10 grand into the K swap and mods. Now he may have been BSing but he seemed like an honest guy.. it was the fastest Integra I've ever come across. Here I am putting a long and this Integra comes up on my right revving. It was a 2 lane road merging to 1 up ahead, and I was on the left, I'm like "LOL" and up until 3rd gear it was even but after, he was gone. He did ask me what I had in my car and said "yours is really fast actually" and I just said "VE swap" - no idea if he knew what that was or not.

hes not bsing its really that much lol thats why i say dollar for dollar VE is the best 4 cyl

Yep, I used to say the best dollar for dollar was the SR20DE, now I def agree it's the SR20VE. And you can boost a VE for WELL under $10 grand including the cost of the engine swap itself, and run faster than that Integra.

just under 8k miles on the engine. like a dozen drag passes over a 100 dyno pulls and stupid amount of 9k rpm rev limiter bouncing tire shreding fun. oh and got 30 mpg on the trip. come get some

Page three and counting who wouldve knew?

sr20ve 1.58:1

k20a 1.62:1

and just for interest the k24

1.54:1. Worse than the sr, but also has .4L more displacement


The other thing going for the K is the accessibility of the big cranks