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This topic has been debated and debated over and over again, the end result is always the same, 50% of the answers are BS, 25% dont know and the other 25% wont tell you.

I have been told by several friends and people that you cannot use a 90-93 integra 5 spd half shaft on a B16 with 98 GSR Hydro tranny, well, I was skeptical and wanted to challange what everyone told me, I'm like that, I dont take anyones word for it untill I myself know the answer.

So I went to my buddies where I was building up my block, I grabbed the block and brought it to my house down to my room where the tranny is, I bolted the tranny up to the block and crossed my fingers, I pushed the 90-93 integra Half shaft in...Damn, seal is way too small and the splines only go in about 1/4 inch...So I take it out, measure the distance if the splines on the shaft, then the Diff, what do you know, they are both 1", so then I measure the distance from the inside diff to the outside of the tranny case its just over 3", then I measure the distance from the beginning of the shaft to where the dust cover is, its exactly just over 3".

So I take out the seal, and put the half shaft in, it goes in perfectly and bolts up to the B16 perfectly. So I go to the shed and pull the seal out of the old LS cable tranny, compare the diamiters to the GSR tranny, the outside diamiter is EXACTLY the same, so I put the LS seal in to the GSR tranny, slide the half shaft in, bolt everything in place, and it FITS!

So if anyone has a similar setup and is having a hard time finding the half shaft for their tranny, you dont have to worry, just get the K7 half shaft from a 90-93 OBD1 integra B18A1, and get a new LS tranny seal on the one side and put it in to your GSR/TypeR tranny and you can use this with the First gen B16A, and maybe second gen too, I doubt Honda changed the mounting holes for the half shaft between the 2 years, but then again I'm not sure.



Here you can see the engine, GSR tranny and Half shaft bolted up.