KTeller8

ok well the swap will start up this weekend. just for notes.. this is what i have and what i bought .. maybe this will help in our ultimate guide for a swap.

Car: 5 Gen 96 obd2 Accord LX Four Door Automatic
H22: H22a1 96 obd2 USDM
Tranny:JDM automatic H22 Tranny
ECU: Will use the 97 Ex until tuned and running them will look for upgrade
TCU: 96 Untill this guy follows through and sends me the Prelude one
MODS: JDM cams, springs and retainers. Skunk2 Cam gears, AEM fuel Rail, AEM FPR. Others: AEM 97+ CAI, mandrel bent catback

Items bought ahead of time: went and got a gallon of coolent, a case of mobil 1, Box of Honda OEM ATF, filter, Distributor Cap, Rotor Buttons, VTR sealent for valve cover. Got 96-97 EX engine harness. Prelude Motor mounts a few i forget which ones.. all that the yard had. LOL

Future Notes: Most know i have Wiseco Pistons 8:5:1 and Crower Rods, APR bolts and Rings here. Going to get the engine in and running first. Then in two months, i ll have that Turbo kit off my buddy here. I ll run 6-8 psi and tune that. As i am doing all that. Ill be looking for a bare or short H22 block to use. I ll have that resleeved and bored and then built that up with my stuff. Then just pull and swap after the new year.


Thats all for now.. I think i have it all ready. I want new plugs, but the shop was out so i ll wait till the engine is in and ready then run to Pep Boys or somewhere.

poison

good luck man. My friend's and I swapped jdm H22 in my civic for 3 days

letsride

Hey Teller keep me posted on this swap and your progress!! This is my next planned swap

KTeller8

first timers: me and a freind he did about 90% of the work. i watched helped and listened. Neither one of us know bout hondas, but he is a good mechanic freindly type person. He knows alot bout cars and he has tools out the rear.. anyways.. took 4.5-5 hrs. with no books or anything. to unhook plugs and hoist out tranny and engine. We start to mess with H22 tomorrow. Pull out was simple.. just unhook alot of stuff and i didnt unhook the A/C box thingy.. cause i didnt want it to lose pressure and pay to redo my AC. That will help. I ll pull out the Cruise control asembely tomorrow too. Weight reduction LOL
Talk to you guys later..

letsride

Good job Try to take some pics as you go along if possible!!

letsride

Updates.....

KTeller8

sat. 10 am : OH OH OH get this.. ok i mentioned before how i had that high pitched.. spooling sound when i let go of the gas petal. all the stunnas around my town thought i was boosting lol. sounded like a T3 spooling.. anywayzz... i pull out all the intake and other crap.. and guess what is sitting on the inside of my TB... the center cap of my filter!!!! The damm thing came off from the inside and went through the piping and into the TB. Thank god it was to big to get inside the TB. That would of destroyed the F22.. jeshhh

sat: 1 30pm
not adding in the Jdm Cams, springs and retainers

ok well it seemed that i couldnt get them replaced. my freind has done replacements in Nissans before, but called honda and they said that i needed a compressoin tool and some other kind of "special" item to pull them and get the valve springs out without them falling? So.. this will wait till the new year, when the block is resleeved and the turbo kit is added.


Sat: 3:45
Well i got the wrong cam gears. seems like the ones from Importparts are for h23. i didnt notice on the box.. so thats that. i ll order a set of h22's from my distrubor in clearwater and have them in a day. they are bout 6 hrs from.

sat: 5
If you have an lx accord you need more than just the wiring of vtec. you ll need a downpipe that fits for the 4-2-1. i am going to a junk yard and getting a h22 downpipe and just cutting off the end to fit.. and welding a normal accord flange to fit the cat..so get a h22 downpipe with your swap guys. the lx ex. manifold is just 4-1 .. so monday i ll get one from the yard and and then just cut the end and match up the flange to the cat of the accord.

letsride

Jonathan_ED3

Good luck Mike.

spettinger

hey, keep the cruise control, i wish my crx had it. LUXURY!! haha

letsride

How is it going Mike?

letsride

Any updates?


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letsride

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letsride

Hows htis swap going? Any roadblocks?

KTeller8

oh yeah now i ve just finished a big one. its been what a few days since we started. i got my h22 cam gears in, they sent me h23, got my downpipe (i had a 4-1 lx accord and needed the 2-1 part off the h22), get everything bolted up and set. puting on the ex harness and the ex socket/plug that snaps into the h22 ignition coil/disturbor pack didnt fit. so hmm, i figure ok, splice in the h22 one and boom that will work.. nope the h22 socket has 5 pins and 5 wires on it.. so ok? what to do.. well looked at the lx disturbtor and that is a different shape all together. well shoot? so i take both the lx, ex and h22 sockets and look all three are different: one has four pins three wires, one has five pins five wires, one has four pins four wires and the accord ones are rounded and h22 is oval/squared. well i went and got an ex distrubtor/coil black box thing from the junk yard... well that would in theory plug in, but it dont fit on the block.. it would have to be redrilled and alterred. well shoot. took it to a specialist here and ended up doing this.. rewired the external pack to become internal now.. and get this i had to do that by using a B18 coil since the wires were able to match up number for number and color for color...so needless to say, that i might be the only one around with that setup lol.. its because of the fact that the eninge is obd2 and that is what got me in the long run grr.