ToTriggerHappy

Pics of my mini-me swap. Still underway. Will keep it updated. I did this because i had a blown head gasket and thought why the hell not just get the V-Tec. Tell me what you think!!!

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Before I started

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Piece of **** IM. Im disappointed with the air flow

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Dirty a$$ injector out of cylinder #2

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Head is off

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235,000 miles of carbon on these pistons baby!

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Piece of **** HG

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USED Y8 injectors

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USED Y8 IM

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Custom Painted By Me


More pics to come. just ordered much more and cant wait to get it here!!!

D16SiHatch

lookin good

ToTriggerHappy

thanks mann! i wanna finish this **** badd!!!

DVDr

iTrader: (2)

That motor has definilty sean better days.

Are you touching the bottom end ? or just doing the mini me swap ?

ToTriggerHappy

im doin the mini-me for right now cause im a little low on cash. but once i get paid im takin it out and gettin tt rods and vitara pistons and then throwin in a turbo. plus the v-tec tranny.

LuisV928

nice i wanna do this to my single cam to is it alot of work?

gsreg607

nice work.... good luck.......more pics when your done...

DVDr

iTrader: (2)

Sounds good. Im just saying because most of the swaps I saw that people did the mini me on high mileage blocks without any bottom end work, ended up spinning a bearing.

( you will tend to redline the car alot for the first little while with the mini me swap ).

But if rebuilding the bottom end is in your plans then its all under control.

ToTriggerHappy

its really simple work just costs some money. nt too bad tho!

ToTriggerHappy

yahh. i never really thought about spinning a bearing. but it makes sense if you think about it. i just wont dogg it untill i get the bottom end work done! thanks for ur input

D16SiHatch

its not bearing issues you really have to worry about. what more commonly is the problem, more so on the 88-91 engines, is you throw a fresh newer head and new hg on a bottom end that's high mileage and instead of spinning a bearing it's more likely that you'll blow through the rings and start consuming lots of oil.

i had a d16a6 that ran fine and i decided to mini-me it with a y8 head. it was really clean and nice i thought everything would work out peachy. unfortunately didn't work out that way. it ran fine for a few weeks, but then it started burning lots of oil. did a compression test and cyl 2 came back at 60psi. i said muff this i'm done with the d and went b-series lol.

ToTriggerHappy

how many miles did you have on the engine when you did the swap? lets hope this wont happen to me so i can have some time to redo my bottom end.

D16SiHatch

i had about 160,000 on the bottom end.

ToTriggerHappy

well that sounds bad on my part. i got 235,000

boxeocampeon

damn youre head is hella dirty lol

kngkong1256

looks clean

724chris

what kind of header is that?

Matt93eg

I was thinking the same thing. Valvetrain is dirty as hell. That engine would have benefited from oil changes more often.

ToTriggerHappy

yahh i know but my mom had it and she didnt really care. but i doo. i change mine every 3000 miles lol. i just wanna use a degreaser once i get my head on. do you know if it would mess up the paint on the valve cover if i do use a degreaser on my engine?

ToTriggerHappy

P.O.S. ebay header. i just put it on cause i was low on money and i had a crack on the O2 bung on my stock exhaust mani

D16SiHatch

it's possible. i would just pull the cover to be safe

Matt93eg

Yeah I agree, I would just pull the cover then you don't have to worry about it. Its only like 5 bolts anyhow.

ToTriggerHappy

then what put a trash bag over the head so i dont get n e in it?

keyzek

looks good especially the valve cover

wannaBjdmca6

hey how did u swap that header? just bolt on?