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I got 5 new dwarf frogs for my 20 gallon tank and and 1 new red female lobster for my 10 gallon tank yesterday. Too many frogs to name and hard to tell them apart so they didn't get any names but the lobster is a girl so I named her Ruby Red. Ruby is not scared of me at all and tried to escape from the tank with in 10 mins of being put into the 10 gallon tank. This is a picture of all 5 new Dwarf forgs and my old timer female in the middle. This is my new female crayfish Ruby Red. ... Read More

While doing my engine swap from D15B7 to D16A(D16Z6) I had to swap my throttle bodies around to figure out why my car was running funny and while doing so I noticed that both looked the same size inside. After doing some research on the net today I found that they are both 56mm in diameter so it does not matter which one i use. Below is a picture of my throttle body and also a chart of Honda's throttle bodies from D15B7 to B18C5. Honda Throttle Body Diameters d15B7 – 56mm d16a6 – 55mm d16y7 – 56mm d16y8 – 56mm d16z6 – 56mm ZC – 55mm d16a1 – 55mm d16a8 – 55mm b16a SiR – 58mm b16a SiR2 – 60mm b16a2 – 60mm b16a3 - 60mm b18c1 – 60mm b18c5 – 62mm b18a – 58mm b18b – 60mm ... Read More

Well it was a cold but sunny day today so I decided to do my valve adjustment as i've heard it's suppose to snow for the next few days. I pulled out the spark plugs, wires and the distributor cap first, then pulled the valve cover off and finally pulled off the timing belt cover. I set the engine to TOP DEAD CENTER (TDC) on #1 cylinder and adjusted both the intake and exhaust valves. While the cylinder was at TDC, I inserted a plastic rod down the spark plug hole and marked it. Then I rotated the cam 90 degree's and inserted the plastic rod down the #3 cylinder plug whole to make sure I was at TDC and adjusted the intake and exhaust valves. Then I rotated the cam another 90 degree's and did cyclinder #4 and finally did the same thing for #2. Once it was all done I double checked all valves for each cyclinder at the proper cam position. One thing I forgot to mention is that while turning the cam 90 degree's I checked to make sure I was on the right cylinder by looking at the distributor rotor postion with the distributor cap. ... Read More

I was bouncing around the net today for paintjobs and found these two candy apple red civic's. 93 Civic Hatch Candy Apple Red 95 Civic Hatch Candy Apple Red ... Read More

I installed a B&M fuel pressure gauge last night and now I have a better understanding how my fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator are working together. When the vacuum hose is connected between my fuel pressure regulator and my intake manifold I get 31PSI at idle and 40PSI at full throttle and when I disconnect the vacuum hose it jumps to about 40PSI. From what I have read on the honda forums this seems to be a normal reading for a stock system like mine. Once I add bigger injectors and and turbo I will have to get an adjustable fuel pressure regulator and bump that up to 45-50 PSI with out the vaccuum line connected. Below is a picture with my gauge showing 31PSI at idle. ... Read More

The car has been running good since this morning so I decided to wireup the VTEC tonight. I soldered all the wires to make sure I was getting good connections and used some zapstraps to keep the wires tidy. Overall it was an easy thing to do and now I don't have the engine light any more. I took it for a couple rips down the street and man when that VTEC  engages it pulls hard. The D16A with my intake, header and exhaust should be putting out about 145HP so getting up to 200-220HP with a turbo should be a realistic goal with some additional addons. ... Read More

The engine still had issues running rough the last few days and I didn't have time to do the valve adjustment to see if that would help so I messed around with the sensors last night and added some fuel injector cleaner into the tank and this morning it seems to be good. I also had a fuel odour coming out of the engine compartment but couldn't see anything leaking badly but with a closer inpection and a sniff test I narrowed it down to an injector. I pull that injector out and I guess when I swapped the injectors last week i must of kinky the seal on this one, so in the future I will spray some WD-40 on the seal so it goes easier into the fuel rail. This morning there was no more fuel odour and engine ran better after adding the fuel injector cleaner and messing around with the sensors. ... Read More

If your gonna build a full race engine and want to start with brand new parts to get the job done I found a great site that sells blocks, cams, rods and pistons to suit your B and D series engines. RS Machine ... Read More

Ever wanted to do the mini-me on your D15 engine well I found this great post on Honda-Tech forums. Here take a look MiniMe Swap Below are other Mini-Me Head & block combinations and compression ratios Head | Block Z6 | Z6 Block - 9.13:1 Z6 | y8 Block - 9.21:1 Z6 | A6 Block - 9.95:1 Z6 | ZC Block - 12.03:1 Z6 | D15 - 10.10:1 Z6 | Y7 - 9.62:1 Head | Block Y8 | Z6 - 9.45:1 Y8 | Y8 - 9.61:1 Y8 | A6 - 10.33:1 Y8 | ZC - 12.61:1 Y8 | D15 - 10.52:1 Y8 | Y7 - 9.96:1 ... Read More

The Blue-Ray and HD-DVD battle has ragged for a while now and the winner seems to be Blue-ray. I've been voting for Blu-ray all along specially since it comes in a PlayStation 3 and holds 50GB instead of 30GB on a HD-DVD. Here is a link to a pie chart of what the major movie studios are voting for. Pie Chart ... Read More

HPI Racing Baja 5B Super Sport looks really good! It's got a 26cc gas 2 stroke engine, aluminum tuned pipe, 8,000 RPM clutch, heavy duty beadlock rims, front and rear sway bars, heavy duty rear dog bones and more... HPI Racing has done it again with a great kit version. Click Here for more Info. ... Read More

My car has been running rather rich lately and was told by a mechanic friend of mine to check my valve clearance. So I did some searching around today and found these 2 posts on how to do a valve clearance adjustment. And when doing one use the specs below for the D16Z6 engine Intake: 0.007 - 0.009 inch or 0.18 - 0.22 mm Exhaust: 0.009 - 0.011 inch or 0.23 - 0.27 mm Valve adjustment post 1 Valve adjustment post 2 ... Read More

I found another thread on an engine swap but this one has a lot of detail on what was done to the engine and how things were done so it will be a great reference point when I start to build up my turbo engine. Sonny 1st Gen CRX ... Read More

I found some great links on a lot of important things to know Engine Compression Test Honda ECU identification VTEC Wiring from D15B7 to D16Z6 ODB1 ECU Pin Schematic ECU Programming D16 Specs and more info NGK spark plug code break down PDF Format Reading a spark plug 1992-95 Engine wiring Schematic 1992-95 Chassis Wiring Schematic #1 1992-95 Chassis Wiring Schematic #2 Civic AutoZone Repair Guide ... Read More

After all that work yesterday I knew I would find a solution soon because I was running out of things to check. Today I went to the parts store and picked up some new NGK spark plugs, NGK ignition wires, distributor cap and rotor, fuel filter and a radiator cap since my old one disintegrated yesterday. I started by changing the plugs and then started the engine and guess what to my surprise BAAM! engine runs fine, so it was a fauled up plug that was causing all these issues. I still changed the fuel filter, iginition wires and distributor cap and rotor as it had to be done in the near future anyways. The spark plugs I got are the NGK ZFR5J-11 which seem to work really well with this engine. It runs smoth now and has lots of power and I'm not even activating the VTEC yet! The only thing I have left is to wire up the VTEC and bolt up the front bottom engine cover but thats not even an issue. Old D15B7 Engine and the new D16A VTEC Engine All my replacement parts and a picture of the new NGK wires on my valve cover. ... Read More

Sometimes if your doing a swap or you take the engine apart and you forgot to mark where the vacuum hoses go it's hard to figure it out. So to double check that all my hoses are in the right places I searched for a vacuum hose layout for my car and found one for both the D15B7 and D16Z6 or D16a which is what I swap in. ... Read More

The car still stumbled today at WOT so I swapped the throttle body which included the MAP Sensor and the Throttle Position Sensor but unfortunetly it still stumbled after that. Just to be sure there was no difference in the IACV I also swapped the IACV(Idle Air Control Valve) from my D15B7 to be sure that had nothing to do with the issue. I checked my timing and it was ok so I swapped the fuel injectors and the fuel pressure regulator but no success. Tommorrow I am gonna do a tuneup on it and change the spark plugs and wires, distributor cap and rotor and finally the fuel filter. I got a compression tester today so I can check the compression of all the pistons tommorrow too.    ... Read More

All the D Series engine specs by Wikipedia take a look. D Engines ... Read More

It's been a few days since my last post but I have been researching information about my ECU, VTEC and why my engine surges while giving it gas. My first ECU was giving me code 19 which was an auto tranny sensor, so today I went to the wrecker and picked up a proper 5 Speed ECU and a VTEC Pressure switch. My first ECU was P28-C50(auto) the new one is a P28-C02(5 Speed), to identify your ECU go to Rywire.com, as they have a write up page on how to identify your ECU. They sell wiring harnesses for VTEC D16Z6 Swap, B, H and other Wiring harnesses that you might need for a custom swap and they also have a great writeup on how to wire up your VTEC to your ECU. My VTEC should be operational soon as I got the pressure switch today so it's just a matter of feeding the cables from the plugs to my ECU. My car has been idling kinda funny and stumbling when given light throttle; I did some research about this and found out that it could be a case air pockets in my coolant or a bad or dirty IACV ... Read More

Saturday - Final assembly, fluids and startup Today I started with hooking up the gear shift linkage and mounted the exhaust. Then I mounted the drive shafts and put the suspension back together. I hooked up the remainder of the heater hoses and mounted the radiator and then filled it with antifreeze and water mix. I drained the old oil from the engine and transmission and then added 10W30 to both. I pulled the old P06 ECU out and then mounted the P28(VTEC) ECU in it's place. Then the moment of truth came and it was time to start the engine, I turned the key to the start position 2 times shortly to prime the engine with gas and pump some oil into the top end of the engine. Then I turned the key to the full start position and BAAM! it started right away. Only problem was the ECU was throwing out some error codes. I read in the Haynes Manual that you have to put a jumper into the 2 wire plug that is just below the glove box on the passenger side of the car so I did that and got 2 error codes. Code 22 and Code ... Read More