Almighty-Si

I agree with this statement.

If you want to make alot of power and you have about $6000-7000 you can dump into your motor, I suggest a nice turbo build.

Though a swap is a nice bang for the buck, I always liked saving the money on a swap and working the SOHC to take abuse. I mean, you already have the motor so take it out and get it done. Get some iorn sleeves, some nice JE low compression pistons, metal head gasket, crower rods, crower turbo camshaft, titanium valves, springs and retainers, mild port and polish, a new intake manifold (skunk 2 or something along the lines of that), overbored throttle body, piece together a turbo kit and get yourself a Hondata standalone. With this done at 15psi you should be somewhere near if not at the 300hp mark and more power is possible (given the turbo you choose is large enough to make more power) with some more boost and more tuning.

This is being that you can do most of the work yourself, cause if you can't that price of $6000-7000 goes to over $10,000 easy.

Wow, I just saw that you said your car is an auto, though not impossible you can still have all the work I listed above done but with a stock tranny the car won't last a trip around the block. Honda auto tranny's can take some abuse but once you start adding power, the life of the tranny is dramatically decreased. Do not be discouraged though, your friends at Level 10 can help you with that. They can build you an auto tranny that can take the abuse from power you will be making with the turbo althought it comes with a niffty price tag. It will cost you (given that your tranny is in good working condition) anywhere from $1,500 and up to make your tranny. I can vouch for them as I have a friend who had one of their trannys in his car (you'll find out why I said had in a minute) and it was nothing but spectacular. He had the tranny in the car for a total of 4 years and the reason why he doesn't have it anymore is not cause the tranny broke it's because he had an accident with the car and then after 1 1/2 years of being boosted on at 16psi from a T3-T4 hybrid the motor gave way. The turbo went on the car when the car had 60,000 miles and when the motor gave way it had just a touch over 100,000 miles. This car was his daily driver which he used to put 100+ miles on the car a day and the tranny was just as good as the day he got it back till the day of his cars death. When the car died he had removed the tranny and sold it. From the last I heard from the new owner the tranny is still going strong.

So basically, it all comes down to how far you are willing to go and how much you are willing to spend to get there.