different head/block combinations, frankenstein engines? Options

[blu94gt]

So I was thinking about stuff I had read on the Honda forums a long time ago.

Would it be possible to put a 3sge head/cams/valves etc on a 5sfe bottom end?

I know when I had my Prelude SI there were guys mating the H22 v-tec head and cams onto the H23 bottom end, the head just needed a couple small water jacket machinings and it would bolt up, guys were making a lot of HP with it. Didn't know if there would be some type of work like this done with our engines.

[Kwanza26]

1. Toyota's aren't hondas.
2. Headswaps are geared towards generating more horsepower... .2 liter of displacement ain't sh!t... in fact, it'll hurt horsepower generation
3. can't have your cake and eat it too... small 4 cylinders cannot possibly make good horsepower AND hold a good useable torque band at the low-end... the way the engine makes horsepower simply cannot generate both.
4. search. I've posted a lot with regard to the 5S bottomend and horsepower... so search.

[blu94gt]

1. Toyota's aren't hondas.
2. Headswaps are geared towards generating more horsepower... .2 liter of displacement ain't sh!t... in fact, it'll hurt horsepower generation
3. can't have your cake and eat it too... small 4 cylinders cannot possibly make good horsepower AND hold a good useable torque band at the low-end... the way the engine makes horsepower simply cannot generate both.
4. search. I've posted a lot with regard to the 5S bottomend and horsepower... so search.

1. I know, that's why I asked the question
2. I realize they're geared towards generating more horsepower, and displacement isn't everything
3. Who said I wanted a use-able torque band? It was just a general question lol
4. I did search, but I can only spend so much time reading a lot of the same info looking for new stuff before I get sick of it.

[Kwanza26]

1. I know, that's why I asked the question
2. I realize they're geared towards generating more horsepower, and displacement isn't everything
3. Who said I wanted a use-able torque band? It was just a general question lol
4. I did search, but I can only spend so much time reading a lot of the same info looking for new stuff before I get sick of it.

1. now it's answered
2. good... but if displacement isn't everything... why go through the trouble of building a 5SGE when a 3SGE can easily match it?
3. Why would you want to build a 5SGE if NOT for torque? There is no other reason.
4. If you cannot research... building the engine will be much harder...