what would be a good cheap swap for a 80-89 4 door honda civic with the choose your own gear option (5 speed)

 

Um...that covers three generations! You're gonna hafta be a little more specific than that if you want answers. What year/model? Budget? What do you want it to do? Street only, street/strip, or race only? Color? Matching keychain required? Cloth seats or vinyl? 8 track, cassette, or CD player? Be specific!!!

 

zc sucks!! very slow w/ no tourqe, sorry my experience....go w. a c5

 

OBDO B16A1.. ?

 

im not sure what year exactly but it is a boxy lookin thing lol ill look at some pics and seee what it is.. but what would be a cheap good running motor for it, something to get me in the 16s at 5000 foot air in west texas? i dont wunna have to do much or any wireing!

 

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If you don't want to do any wiring, buy another car then. Chances are the car will be DPFI, or even worse a carbbed model. Both will require some wiring, the carbbed model would require a complete FI conversion.

 

well if its a must then i guess, i must do it. what motor do you think would work good? and wouldnt need a whole lot of fabricating or whatever, something where i take the stock motor and crap out and put in the motor i need plus whatever other parts, and do a lil wireing or whatever!

 

ok the car is a 5 speed 83 its a carbed 4 banger
oh well ill enjoy it till it blows then what kind of swap are we lookin at? and how much do ya think it would cost?

 

gsr with b16 tranny you'll love it

 

the gsr motor is not vtec right? oh well vtec is overrated anyways what do you think i would have to do to get one of these in the car? i was thinking a zc motor would be alot better and prolly alot easier wireing is gunna be a bitch but i gues ill have to do it

 

Basically a swap in that 83 will require converting to FI which includes swapping in another gas tank, fuel pump, fuel lines, a lot of wiring and so on. There won't be any motors that bolt in (other than stock), so it will require custom mounts for even the simplest swap like say a ZC or nonVTEC SOHC. Unless you really want to get serious with this car, I would say that you should definitely pick another car for a project, at least an 86+ fuel injected model.

 

what company makes the manifolds for the webber carbs or whatever.. that would simplify the project 10 fold