Thursday – D16A Maintenance and external assembly

So far out of the 4 days, today was the funnest till the end but I’ll get into that later. Putting something together is always more fun because you start seeing a little glimps of your final product and you get more existed. Today I started by taking the JDM exhaust manifold off as it is different from mine so I can’t use it. Then I mounted the flywheel and new clutch, and finally bolted up the transmission. I did some maintenance on the engine too and replaced the thermostat, PCV Valve and new oil filter. After that I mounted my old wire harness including fuel injectors with the fuel rail, alternator and starter. Most of the plugs were easy but one thing I noticed was that I did not have a Purge Valve on this engine so I will have to reuse my old one from my D15B7 and just add it to my vacuum lines. I cleaned off the old throttle body gasket from the intake and then bolted on the throttle body and and connected all the appropriate hoses. Toward the end of the day I started screwing back all the engine mount bolts to there appropriate places, but I while doing this I noticed that my left hand(drivers side) engine mount was different and would not bolt up to the bracket mounted on this new D16A Engine. So I tried to swap my old bracket from my D15B7 but no chance they did not align to the wholes on the block. So tomorrow I will have to go the the auto wrecker and see if I can pickup the proper engine mount.

Machined and mounted flywheel

Clutch and pressure plate aligned and bolted on

Ready for bolting on tranny to engine

New gasket on intake manifold and picture of throttle body

Back side of throttle body and a picture of the Purge Solenoid that wasn’t on the D16A engine

In both pictures on the left is the old D15D7 bracket and on the right is the D16A bracket.

For The Next Step Click Here > D16A Engine Swap – Day 5