Friday – Ready engine and mount up in engine bay
Today I got the engine ready for mounting and decided to use my original D15B7 engine mount and bracket. The power steering bracket on the other hand is one that I got from the wrecker from a D16Z6 engine. Installing the engine back into the car took a lot of patience I had a friend of mine work the hoist while I moved the engine around and started bolting up the mounts. Before lowering the engine into the engine bay I attached the rear engine bracket to the engine, then got my friend to lower the engine into place while I worked the bolt to catch some thread. After that I worked the tranny mount and got a bolt thru that and finally had to use a floor jack to help align the drivers side mount and stuck a bolt thru that. Once the main mounts were done I installed the left and right torque mounts, power steering pump and some hoses. Tommorrow the plan is to finish her up and get her running.
D16A chained up and ready installation
D16A in the process of being installed
D16A almost installed
D16A finally installed in the engine bay
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Hi Bart. Nice write up. I am doing a similar d15b7 to d16y7 swap currently. I am finding that the PS bracket from the 1.5 wont fit the 1.6. It sounds like you used your stock d15b7 engine mount and a PS bracket from a D16Z6 (92-95 VTEC) on the d16a. Is this correct? I am a little confused because you said in your previous installment that the holes would not line up for the engine mount. I did not have this problem, the mount switched right over but the timing cover required a slight amount of trimming around the mount.
Thanks!
The metal bracket mounted under the timing belt cover was from my old D15B7 and I had to cut the D16A timing belt cover to make it fit. The rubber engine mount was from my car and the power steering bracket was from a D16Z6. But this isn’t a perfect fit as the bolt from the power steering bracket doesn’t properly line up to the engine mount so I had to skip out on that bolt. The reason that i didn’t use all three pieces from my old D15B7 was that for some reason the power steering bracket mounting holes did not line up to the block. I believe that maybe the JDM D16A might have the mounting holes a bit different. So for my future Turbo D16Z6 install I will use all the d16Z6 mounting hardware and it should all fit together fine.
Bart,
Thanks for the response. I ended up doing the exact same thing you did on the swap to a D16Y7 with the same results. Used the D15B7 engine mount(I had to trim the timing cover a tiny bit like you), the stock rubber mount, and a D16Z6 power steering bracket. The bolt from the mount to the engine mount almost lines up but not quite. The 1.6 liters must have a bit taller deck height which makes the bracket slightly different. Honda shows that the DX/LX 1.5l have a different part number than the EX 1.6L for the bracket but the same PN for the power steering pump. Everything worked for me.
Thanks for the tip and the site!
Awesome Dave it’s nice to see you got it working. If you get a nice picture of your engine bay after installation let me know and I can post it on my blog and share what you’ve accomplished. Sign up to my RSS feed if you haven’t already and keep up on my turbo build which should get going as soon as I get my block from machine shop.