austinkli

(the quality on these pics will vary greatly as some were done with my phone, some with my sister's camera, and some with my camera)

Sooooo after faaaaaarrrrrrr to long of a time, my motor swap is finally done. As you may recall some months ago my motor blew up. Had a pretty bad oil leak and needed refilled every 4 days, but the valve cover came loose and it spilled oil way faster. So a couple months back here's my car



That was a very sad night.

So after a while of sitting in the driveway... I finally got my new motor ordered. Picked myself a D15B w/vtec up for $550 from homotorsonline. Very good experience with them, you can read about that here. Also got myself a new tranny, it's just the stock tranny that comes with a D15B, which sucks because my old si tranny was a little faster but it's ok because my old one was slipping and the synchros were going bad.

So I brought it home, opened up my hood and took a few cans of brake cleaner, engine cleaner, and some purple power to clean the whole motor down and scrub the majority of the engine bay down, as well as the underside of my hood.




Finally my new motor arrives:






So then we got to disconnecting everything on the old motor, pulling all the hoses out, disconnecting all the wires, etc.




So After we got all the wires and hoses labeled we got to pulling the old one out





It came out amazingly smooth.








My mom's car had been out of the garage quite a while so she was happy as well



So now it was time to get the wiring harness swapped over. So far we hadn't had any real problems. All of this has been accomplished in about 2 hours and that was because we had to stop for the rain for about 20 minutes.





So now it was time to stick the new motor in. Still our worst problem has only been trying to get the water pump out. The torque wrench just wouldn't do it, spent a good 20 minutes with 3 people trying to loosen it, we barely budged it and then suddenly we tried the torque wrench again and it comes right off. No pictures of that, we were too irritated to pick up the camera. But I got the old water pump pulled out, it looks to be in really good condition but i felt it was a better idea to just replace that at the same time.


Now it's time for the new motor.






So while I got to hooking everything back up I let my sister take the old motor apart so we could know for sure what exactly happened.



Turns out I was right, it had spun a bearing.


So now that everything is back in it was time for me to switch the ECU. What i can tell you is that it's hard as **** to tell what wire is for what when you have trouble distinguishing colors.






I got stuck for a little while wondering why something was already plugged up in both A4 and D6 which is where I wire the Vtec up at. I pondered this for what I am embarassed to say was quite a while... until I followed it up and realized that these wires had no counterparts going to the motor, turns out my DX was already wired up for vtec. AWESOME!



So I ran out to the junkyard, and my gf tagged along with me, I don't think she'll ever do that again, grabbed some wires, only 2 civics there but fortunately I found exactly what I needed and got the plugs pulled out so I could use the wires.


Got the wires pulled out

hooked them up to the vtec solenoid and the VTM

got them grounded and plugged into the wiring harness


And finally I'm done


Here's a video to go with it. I love the sound of the vtec. Though I just listened to the video and the quality is really horrible.



So I cleaned it all up, and washed and waxed it, though I think it already needs it again.

mattyv

sell me that car =[ i want a white EG 4 door

looks like ya did a good jobthough

hi ho silver

austinkli

Thanks guys

acake em1

good work, moms got a nice acura haha, you should get that from her

accordin 2 me

i only snapped one pic cuz my cars not much to look at with the wrong damn fenders on it. i do however now have my swap and chipped ecu and im picking up my harness tonight. i also have the 2000 integra 4 door gsr leather front and back seats in grey. i still need fenders, rims and i need to figure out why i have no acc power in my car anywhere and put my rear disc conversion on

accordin 2 me

i also have a jdm type r header and a jdm type r manifold and TB

fastrxu

Why is there a picture of someones bseries vtec?

I thought the op had a d15b?

Well anyways congrats on the swap maybe one day
you can swap a b16 or Gsr or even bigger

austinkli

I do have a d15b. I don't know why he posted that. And thanks.

Because this motor swap went so smooth in the future I think I might save up quite a bit and do it big all at once. I'm thinking I'm just going to keep this for quite a while as my daily driver while I buy a 4 door ex and turn it into a ferio clone with an LSD trans and a type R motor. Once I'm done with that I think I'll redo the interior in this, put a good i/h/e on it, repaint the rims and give it to my little sister as a graduation present.

BryanM.

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Nice work OP

Gotta love how easy swaps are for these cars.

Manny 77

hey man i have aD15y7 motor i swap my d15y7 head for a vtec head d16y7 head, i plug every wire, the car runs but no vtec kick, i plug the A4 and D6 cables but dont work, i got the p28 ecu, can you help???

CarGuy75

iTrader: (4)

very nice looking 4do'. good job on the swap. makes me want to scrap the b-series idea and get a d15 from hmotors and replace my smoking mini-me.

forcefedferio

very nice, glad you were patient enough to take pictures and document along the way. everytime i do something major i tell myself i am gonna do that, but i just end up tearin into it and not stopping til its done.

austinkli

Did you ground it? I believe the D15y7 should wire up the same as mine.

You should have 3 wires, one from the solenoid to A4, one from the VTM to D6, and a ground.

austinkli

Thanks a lot man.

No more smoking or oil dripping for me. I finally pressure washed the diveway the other day now that I've got no oil leaks. WOOT. Been waiting to do that for 8 months.

Forcedferio, I know exactly what you mean, I do that a lot too. I planned on doing a DIY and documenting with pics as i changed the interior and about halfway into it realized I had only taken 2 pics.

This is the first time I thought to take pics the whole way.

austinkli

See if this helps at all

JDM_CIVIC_EJ8

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good job on finishing the swap