MR2DUECE

well my brother gave me his car last week because he bought a new 330ci, and his motor went out on him (d15b7) 2 weeks ago. i was wondering, if i wanted to put a d16 motor, would it work with the d15 tranny, ecu, etc? basically i just want to replace the motor and was wondering if a d16 would be ok without changing anything else. any suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

xPhantomSolx

The tranny will bolt right up... D series trannys are interchangeable. The ECU will run, but I'm pretty sure it'll throw a CEL. The D16 is a SOHC VTEC motor, D15b has no VTEC, so unless your car is wired for VTEC (del Sols are in the base model, I don't know if civics are), you also have to wire VTEC, which is an... interesting learning process.... Here's the deal. Tranny will run fine, not sure about the ECU running with a D16 distributor. I know to make a D16a6 run on a D15b7 ECU you also have to use the D15b7 distributor.

Mista Bone

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xPhantomSolx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The tranny will bolt right up... D series trannys are interchangeable. The ECU will run, but I'm pretty sure it'll throw a CEL. The D16 is a SOHC VTEC motor, D15b has no VTEC, so unless your car is wired for VTEC (del Sols are in the base model, I don't know if civics are), you also have to wire VTEC, which is an... interesting learning process.... Here's the deal. Tranny will run fine, not sure about the ECU running with a D16 distributor. I know to make a D16a6 run on a D15b7 ECU you also have to use the D15b7 distributor. </TD></TR></TABLE>

D15B has VTEC, D15B7 does not.

D16Z6 will run on the P08 DX ECU, just no VTEC, but it will run just fine for daily duties, add P28 ECU and 2 VTEC wires when needed.

Hi Em!!!!!!!!!!!!


Modified by Mista Bone at 9:43 AM 10/14/2005