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Hey everyone my roomate just bought a 99 ek coupe with the D16Y5 motor and manual tranny from a fellow H-T member. The car already had an AEM cold, Eibach pro-kit, KYB 8way adj, generic front strut bar and came with a Si front lip, ctr style grill and rear sway bar. The motor and tranny has almost 200k on it and the body/interior is pretty good.

My question would be if the motor is worth taking out, getting it blueprinted and putting it back in to build from there. OR get a D15B, P30, and keep it on the Y5 tranny and axels. He doesn't have enough to go B so that's not an option, less then 2k price range so open to opinions.

I'll post up pictures tomorrow and a list of future plans and such. Thanks for the feedback!


Modified by jdm_ef3 at 7:18 PM 4/10/2006

Civicse

http://www.d-series.org is where you want to go for all your sohc needs. honda-tech hates the d series. for 2g's you can build a pretty decent N/A sohc using all oem parts. unless your going turbo.

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Thanks, yeah I'm looking through there now.

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Civicse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">http://www.d-series.org is where you want to go for all your sohc needs. honda-tech hates the d series. for 2g's you can build a pretty decent N/A sohc using all oem parts. unless your going turbo. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Ummm...honda-tech does not hate d series. If you didn't know, 2 of our 3 mods run turbo D series. A lot of the eg-ek roamers run a turbo d series as well. To the original poster, check out d-series.org, as well as doing some searching here on honda-tech. There is a lot more info on this site than on d-series in my opinion.

VSM_EK

rebuild with boost in mind.. and start pieceing a turbo kit together....

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xcessivespeedz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">rebuild with boost in mind.. and start pieceing a turbo kit together.... </TD></TR></TABLE> Thank you, from the research I've been doing on d-series and here I think that is the option we're going to go with. I posted this more as a build thread with some questions thrown in the mix. Thanks for the feedback and I'll get them pix up tomorrow after work

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edit: looked at the block and it's a Y5, ohh well I guess it's still worth building. Here are the pictures







what do you guys think of these wheels?



Modified by jdm_ef3 at 10:21 PM 4/10/2006

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Today we put in:
Denso Iriduim plugs
Bosch wires - will be replaced shortly with Nology
Castrol Syntec w/ Fram filter
OE fuel filter
Ceramic pads

and fixed the driver side window, had to buy a regualtor from honda and I think the motor is going bad. I also sanded down the Si front lip because it was blue with black splotches also bought a 4wire Bosch 02 senser however the one that needs to be replaced is the 5 wire can anyone help me with the 5 wire to 4wire conversion? After some research I think we're going to pull the motor, get the block blueprinted and possible get the crank knifedged. Put on a Z6 or Y8 head and intake manifold. I'm still undecided if I want to convert to OBD1 and run a P30. Any thoughts or suggestions on this?

civic duty

Although I really miss my car, I couldnt of sold my car to a nicer guy. I rest assured it will be taken care of.

Now its time to build my Monster DA9


Modified by civic duty at 10:48 AM 4/12/2006

rYduckz

yeah i thought i saw this car for sale on ht.

good luck on ur build

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Yeah there's the old owner, civic duty. I'm glad we were able to meet up, she's in good hands now

civicsi_guy

you should try to get a ls swap for that money then later swap a vtec head on it if your gonna spend the money on bluprinting and building it might end up costing the same

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you think we get buy an LS, tranny, obd1 conversion and ecu for less then 2k

Voyage34

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1414454 has tons of information on the y5 engine, and some discussion of its potential, both n/a and turbo

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Thank you for the link to that thread! Good find