Originally Posted by mgcook

if you are going to be staying NA. then i'd say go with an H2B

you get the H22 HP and massive Torque, with the addition to a good Bseries tranny. and the fact you retain the bseries starter, linkage, mounts, and axles

the downside is, you have to grind the shit out of the back of the block and seal it up to make sure oil doesnt leak out of it, and you have to run a single pulley, and usually need to beat the shit out of the frame rail to get proper clearance with the pulley

or if you want to do ls/vtec down the road, i'd go with a B16 swap first and foremost...
1) you get a vtec head
2) you get the best geared tranny
3) you can swap in an ls/b20/gsr block and take advantage of the tranny/head

basically it boils down to what you want to do with the car...and since you are saying you want to stay NA, then i'd just stick with the Bseries stuff
1) its simple to do the swap and work on them
2) theres ALOT of aftermarket support for them
3) you dont have to deal with the gay FRM sleeves of the H22