Hello all. I am at a cross-roads and unsure exactly how I feel about things. I have a J32A3 that needs a timing belt. What I already have on order is a timing belt kit, head gasket kit ( for all the gaskets)t, serpentine belt, power steering fluid ( to do a flush), and every single nut, bolt and stud along the way for the work.
But this is my cross roads..... go faster parts... I am considering a few things. What I am considering the most currently is a BC Brian Crower J Series Camshaft Regrind along with a PDC and J-pipe. I daily the car and plan to continue to daily it. I would like to do exhaust and possibly cams while in there now. Only other thing I may do down the road is a J37 Intake manifold and throttle body.

I'm undecided between this, Brian Crower regrind cams, Stage 1 cam's from P2R or stage 1 cams from HLP " Wild Street Cams"
I know to do this I will need to get something to tune the car with as well as the stock ECM won't like me for the cams. I haven't dug into this to far either so if anyone has recommendations please feel free to pitch in.

At the end of the day if I do this the ONLY other mod I would possibly add down the road is the J37 series intake work. That's-it. I will forever daily it and if I want to go further I will start a secondary build instead. Any information and help as to which way you think I should go would be great.

Thanks

 

If you want a 3.5 with more torque, a swap to the 05+ Odyssey (LX/EX only) J35A6 is also an option?
There are like two pages to select from on car-part.com in Canada if the price is comparable to all of your plans above.
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Good Luck in whatever route you choose.

 

I'd like to stick with the J32A3 block, stock internal and heads. I heavily considered swapping heads or going the ported or polished route. However I decided that going that way could be saved for another project TL.

 

If that's the case, then the below forum 'search' functionality is your best bet, along with a lot of research & reading, to glean information on what others have done in the past.
The main reason being is that many who have modified the 3G TL, in its heyday, have since moved on to other platforms and do not frequent the forum anymore, though their information remains.