Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?

Why do people claim this? If you have to install aftermarket internals and what not your basically making a new engine. If Honda motors were that good people should be able to slap on a turbo and be on their way instead of rebuilding head gaskets pistons etc and the stock ecu should recognize the extra flow without having to swap it out for an engine management system.



(Not bad mouthing I drive a Honda just trying to understand where all the hype is coming from that's all)Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?you can turbo them on stock internals providing its a decent series engine, ie. B,K,F etc, and the turbo set up/kit isn't stupidly to big for the stock engine and your not trying to run 20psi of boost



you can only run around 5-8 psi but they will run them all day long, i know of someone who's running a civic EP3 Type-R (K20A engine) turbo, 350bhp on stock internals and its been running fine for ages,



even B16's and B18's can run boost safetly to around 250 bhp...



they handle boost on stock internals better than most engines in their class, they run very high power:litre ratios, whilst maintaining world class reliability at the same time, obviously any engine will need internal upgrades with heavy turbo kits, (low comp pistons, valve/cam work etc) to work properly, i just think they are hyped up as they can take alot more stock than alot of other engines....for example if you were to turbo a 1.6 astra lump i'm willing to bet it won't last all that long...Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?
You can turbo a stock Honda engine and be just fine - up to a certain point.



The reason people install these aftermarket internals is for additional power gains. Any tuner knows that stock engine internals, boosted or not, can only make and handle so much horsepower before upgrading the internals becomes a requirement.



That not only applies to Honda engines but any engine out there, domestic or foreign. Stock engines no matter the make can only handle up to so much horsepower before stronger internals are a must.Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?You can turbo a stock engine and be fine and nothing will happen. I have a 2000 Honda Prelude and I'm going to put a rev hard turbo kit in it and run 7lbs of boost and you can run that safely on stock engine with no problems. The only thing is if you want to go more then that then you would have to rebuild the engine. So it's not a claim you can actually turbo a stock Honda engine and be fine and have a good amount of power to go with it. I have the H22a4 engine in my prelude and it can handle a turbo with only 7-8lbs of boost and it will run great and no rebuilding the engine. So it's not hype you can actually put a good amount of power into a stock engine without rebuilding it. Good luck!Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?
Because that is the only engine allowed in Indy Racing. Now I am not saying that it is valid to compare a IRL engine to a street Honda engine, but that is one reason why many seem to feel Honda engines have it while others don't.Why do people say Honda motors are good for turbo if you have to rebuild the engine to handle it?You guessed it....."hype."

In all fairness to Honda, most any engine needs to be beefed up for a supercharger, nitrous or a turbo if reliability is considered important.