ek9 head on b18c6 itr bottom end

[walsh]

Would this work well or should I get hold of a itr head as well?

Cheers

 

[Barryl85]

Will work fine, Its actually the same head.

 

[olly ek9]

this is exactly what most people do,, go fir it

 

[walsh]

Will the ek9 cams be ok to run the 1.8?

Thanks

 

[KieranEG6]

Will work fine, Its actually the same head.

X2

Is the same head, if anything it will be slightly better as the EK9 cams are marjinaly better than ITR ones think its only sumit like 3 degress of extra duration or sumit on intake.

 

[_JT]

Not totally true, EK9 intake cams are better than 96 spec ITR cams, but 98 spec ITR intake cams are the same. I believe that the intake cam has a longer duration.

 

[Barryl85]

Was just talking about the head - not the valvetrain

 

[Vtec6000]

Not totally true, EK9 intake cams are better than 96 spec ITR cams, but 98 spec ITR intake cams are the same. I believe that the intake cam has a longer duration.

hmm not true from my findings. Seems it was hit and miss as to which 98+ ITR Jap engines had the b16b intake cam. Have seen a few 98+ with 96spec intake cam.

 

[KieranEG6]

Yea sorry forgot about that, i think it was in the later 98 specs ie like around 99-2000 they started using the ek9 intake cam with the slightly longer duration.

But yea heads are the same casting.

 

[walsh]

thanks for info