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What are the easiest engine swaps?


FourthGenHatch
06-19-2002, 10:01 PM
I am going to do a swap eventually but I am a do it yourself guy and don't like anyone fucking up my stuff but me. So what engine swap is easy to do? I am very good at mechanical stuff but knowing about wiring I don't know too much about that stuff. I heard ZC is very easy to do and is like a straight drop in. I think it is harder than that but what is easy to do?

Civic Rush
06-19-2002, 10:06 PM
The b16 cable type is farily easy if you get the motormount kit.
same goes for the b18 with the motor mount kit

FourthGenHatch
06-19-2002, 10:09 PM
Is B16 easy? I thought it would be hard for some reason. Why has ZC dropped off the face of the earth, all these engine sites no longer have them!

bc4g
06-19-2002, 10:16 PM
the easiest swap is h22a turbo charrged with NOS its like turning on a light switch ---if you really believe this please sell your car

Chad

FourthGenHatch
06-19-2002, 10:25 PM
Originally posted by bc4g
the easiest swap is h22a turbo charrged with NOS its like turning on a light switch ---if you really believe this please sell your car

Chad

I'd like to be able to steer my car.

bc4g
06-20-2002, 08:16 AM
i was just kidding. I had along day at work--a nice 12hr shift

Chad

amy@af
06-20-2002, 10:03 AM
i did a d16y8.it went right in. for some reason people think that swap is really spendy. you can go the cheap route and all you need is the engine and rpm activated switch. i got my engine for $500. so it would have cost the same as a ZC, except for my d16y8 didn't need to be rebuilt (as they suggest you do with a ZC)

ami

Melt
06-20-2002, 05:12 PM
I cant say how easy / not easy it was to do the SOHC ZC swap seeing as it was already in the car, but the owner of the car before me was a poor guy, so it couldnt have been too expensive

velocitySiR
06-20-2002, 07:19 PM
zc=easy as shit.....move one wire to your cam sensor.....

get it at soko i got one for my old rex for $730 shipped....

FourthGenHatch
06-20-2002, 10:44 PM
Do you think DOHC ZC or SOHC VTEC D16 is better? I heard ZC is unreliable.

velocitySiR
06-21-2002, 10:39 AM
ya the zc can be very unreiable or very good.... i mean they are a shady motor, personally i'd go y8, but if your really afraid of wires like i am, ZC!

Melt
06-21-2002, 03:05 PM
Seems reliable so far, hasnt not started on me yet

amy@af
06-21-2002, 06:25 PM
Originally posted by velocitySiR
ya the zc can be very unreiable or very good.... i mean they are a shady motor, personally i'd go y8, but if your really afraid of wires like i am, ZC!

go the rpm activated switch route and there is only a couple of wires. go the p28 ecu route, and just get a wiring harness instead of rewiring 50 wires. it's as easy as the ZC. i was stressing before the swap was done...thinking "what did i get myself into". but after it was done i realized it was basically out with the old engine and in with the new.

ami

Lil Cs turbo Zc
06-25-2002, 12:23 PM
well from whet I heard from being on many web boards for a couple years that the zc swap is very simple. . But it took me 7 weeks to finish..

confucius
07-02-2002, 09:37 PM
go with d16y8, im putting that head on my non vtec block.

amy@af
07-03-2002, 11:31 AM
Originally posted by Lil Cs turbo Zc
well from whet I heard from being on many web boards for a couple years that the zc swap is very simple. . But it took me 7 weeks to finish..

just curious...why? what troubles did you have? had the y8 running after 30 mins on day 3

:D i learned a lot from my mistakes :D

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