93 Civic DX/D15B7 - Can I swap in a D15B8?
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93 Civic DX/D15B7 - Can I swap in a D15B8?
Timing belt broke on my 93 Civic DX with a D15B7 engine. I have a spare complete D15B8 engine. Can these be swapped and if so what would be involved?
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Re: Engine Swap D15
One for one swap, use the correct ECU, that should be about it. Before you go through with it, why not verify you have to at all? A buddy of mine had his belt break on his car and was lucky enough to not have bent any valves.
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Thanks for the info. Will check the head for bent valves but it some pretty bad noises when it happened. I don't have the ECU for the D15B8 just complete engine and trans. So it will not run with original ECU?
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The engines require different ECUs and possibly different engine wire harnesses or wire modifications.
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It'll run but the fuel maps are different (different injectors, B8 use 195cc vs all else 235cc). In addition the ignition timing is also different. I can't say it'll run the same/better/worse because I've never tried it so hopefully someone that has tried it will verify if it's safe to use your original ECU.
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