It's my first post on this forum so I hope that doesn't effect my response =) Anyhow, besides the VTEC head, you'll need oil lines, tap the holes (for the oil line), VTEC ecu, wires to hook up VTEC, distributor, injectors and all sesnors should match the OBD1 of the vehicle. As for as reliability goes, it's a myth to say that all frankenstein swaps are unreliable. Think about it, any heavily modified vehicle has the slight/strong potential of being unreliable. Although, I would highly, HIGHLY recommend doing more research if you plan on doing this swap on your own. Compression isn't necessarily ideal to be at least a 10.5:1 or whatever it was the previous member quoted...there are a lot of Turbo'd LSVTECs and those obviously need lower compression like 8.5:1. IMO= LS turbo > Lsvtec turbo. SO, one way or the other, anyway, hoped this helped..correct me if I'm wrong.
