Luisgil

in buying a 1999 Honda Civic dx with a knocking motor. It was off my friend and I have a bit of knowledge about cars so I bought it. Car runs and drives but the motor knocks on higher Rpms. It was ran without oil. Other than the high Rpm knocks the car runs decent. What should I replace or rebuild? Would it be the block or the head?

tony_2018

Budgeting?

Luisgil

There's definitley budgeting. I'm trying to spend the least money possible

tony_2018

swap in a replacement. Make life easy, swap in the same engine but in good running condition.

Luisgil

Luisgil

Phone made me reply back. That's what I thought I would happen. The auto motor and manual motor have the same mounts ?

tony_2018

Same mounts, but depending on the motor there might be some discrepancies with sensors.

Luisgil

It'll be another d16 y8 . Just comming From an automatic

tony_2018

If your car is a 5spd than you'll have to swap the intake manifold because it uses a 2 wire iacv. ensure you replace the gasket becuase its going to be fucked up once you pull the manfold off. Make sure you clean it off completely.

Luisgil

Thats the kinda response I wanted
Anything else different?

tony_2018

Yeah, do the maintenance while you have it out to safe yourself the headache.

Luisgil

Exactly what I was thinking. Timing belt job. What else?

tony_2018

Any seals that can't be reached once its in the car.

TomCat39

I find it the easiest to do the rear main, front main, oil pump, oil pan and valve seals along with the water pump, timing belt and tensioner (if needed) with the motor out of the car. The vtec, dizzy and cam seal all are prettty easy to do once motor is installed if they leak.

This will pretty much be all the major seals and will be a nice clean motor for ages to come.

That's my new philosophy when it comes to pulled motors.

Valve seals can be done with motor in the car and don't typically need replacing unless the guides need replacing so is overkill but hey....