It’s been 2 months since I did the engine swap on my car and I love it every bit. It’s got more power, better response, less oil usage and looks good too. The D16 engine and the Si tranny works really good together in my little hatch. The Power to Weight ratio is really nice, [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday – Ready old engine for extraction First thing in the morning I dropped off the Flywheel for machining and headed to Princess Auto for some oil drain pans and some other items. To start the engine removal process I jacked up the car and put it on stands ready for drive shaft removal. Taking [...]
Monday – Get parts and prep the new engine I started the day by calling around for parts, organizing my tools and figuring what I had to do first. Then I went to MOPAC and picked up a Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch and Coquitlam AutoParts for the water pump, timing belt and pilot bearing. By [...]
It’s a great start to 2008 as I have acquired a JDM D16A VTEC Engine with only 80,000KM’s. It came with an Si tranny, Distributor and the P28 ECU. The plan is to change the timming belt, water pump and to replace the stock clutch with a Center Force 2 Clutch, Bearing and Pressure plate [...]
I was jumping on the web again today and found a red civic hatch just like mine that has already been fixed up, although he has a bigger engine then mine it still looks good with the body kit and tint. 94 Civic Hatch
I found a nice EG(92-95) Red Civic Hatch just like mine that has a B16A with a Turbonetics turbo and a nice intercooler on turbocivic.com. Check it out. EGBoost
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No Comments »I found an article of a K20A2 engine from a 2001-2006 Acura RSX engine being swapped into a 1978 Honda Civic. The K20A2 is a DOHC VTEC engine with 11:1 compression ratio and 200HP / 142ft/lbs. So adding this powerful engine into a car from 1978 of such less weight would be it fly. 1978 [...]
I found this great writeup on how to protect your engine block by a process similar to a block guard. This is called Block Posting, check out this write up it’s great. Block Posting
