3SGTE tuned up VS. Civic Single Cam Turboed, i know we talked about these situation b4, but i just gotta confirm wi Options

[chacha]

my friend was braggin' how great his car is and that his tuner was able to push 450 WHP on his 1995 Honda Civic, ported his engine from top to bottom and has a T3 turbo on it...piston and crank as well as all the comparments in the engine was literally changed for performance...i told him about the 3SGTE for our cars and he laughed...never heard of the GT4, but laugh and said his car will run 0-60 in 3 or 4 sec high, i forget...but he will beat the SH*T out of our cars (tuned 3SGTE engines) can this be true? a 450WHP civic single cam beating a dual cam 3SGTE?

This post has been edited by chacha: Aug 2, 2006 - 11:32 AM

[Fastbird]

Ok, I agree 100% that cams can do a lot for a motor. That just the basics of an engine there. I wasn't discounting that at all.

But......more cams does NOT necessarily mean more valves. Take a standard pushrod V8. One cam, two valves per cylinder. Then take a DOHC motor. Two cams, can still be two valves per cylinder, or could be three (Chevy Metro), or Four valves per cylinder. Just saying that more cams = more valves is a very incorrect statement.