30 Aug Budget K Swap Civic Hits the Dyno Part 3

Budget K swap Civic hatchback hits the dyno to get the numbers.

By Brian Gillespie and Aaron Gaghagen

In Part 2, our Project Budget K Civic hatchback was all about the numbers. Those numbers were pertaining to the total cost to complete a K24 engine swap into a 5th generation Civic and trying as much as we could to get it done for about the same price as the typical VTEC B series swap, around $3,000. We came so very, very close to our mark at $3,285. Now the new numbers goal for the project is to try to get RSX Type S engine power for as little money as possible. So, to find out where we stand on engine output Project Budget K needs to hit the dyno. We went to Xact Dyno in Tempe, AZ to see what kind of power the K24 mill is making and if we could make any more power with a few tweaks on our KTuner equipped ECU.

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