So I bought a new 93 DX Hatch... The timing belt broke and I got it swapped with another DX motor. The mech. told me it was a JDM motor with 20-50 k miles... Is there any way to verify the miles? Also, I have'nt picked it up yet but when I went buy to look at it the other day I (and I only got to look for a few seconds) but it looked like the valve cover was differnt and the oil stick was on the right side not the front middle. Would a 96 and up motor work fine in my 93? any help is much appreciated!!!

 

How do I get people to respond to this?
thanks!

 

wait...

yes a 96+ will work

 

I got the car back...
What I cant understand is why the dip stick is on the right???
Can anyone tell whats going on with this engine?
I can see that they had to cut the timing belt cover to get it to fit and I know that when I first saw it, there was no honda logo on it, they added it.
thanks
Hershel

 

the newer sohc come with the dip stick on the right, and i highly doubt someone would go out of their way to steal a stock dx motor

 

I'm not trying to say that someone stole it... sorry about the confusion, I just want to figure out exactly what motor is in the car? Just want some advice on weather or not it appears to be legitiment...
thanks!

 

I know alot about Dseries engines, but where the hell did a d16a come from. All the d16a's i have seen are the dohc's in the 1g tegs. I did a google search and it came up with alot of russian ****, so where are they from?

 

thanks for the response... I had the same trouble... Do you think that it could of been parts from differnt engines put together? I couldnt find anything on this motor... also they painted it silver and that kinda pissed me off caus I couldnt tell the previous condition...

 

you cant tell the condition of the internals by the dirt on the block

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AlLMoToRvOtEr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It's not a JDM motor because as far as I have ever seen they don't have single cam motors in japan.............</TD></TR></TABLE>

LOL....hold on, hold on....LOL....My stomach hurts I can't stop laughing.

 

Umm..yeah, but it's def 96 and up non vtec motor. I don't know much about single cams, due to don't care much about them. But if I'm not mistaken they reused your old intake and exhaust manifold's. Newer dx motors have a diffent IM with the TB mounted up in the center of the IM. Plus the reason the timing cover is cut so they could fit the side engine mount bracket on ther from your original motor. Cause without them changing it the mount would have never bolted up.

BTW...it's a 96 and up motor be happy with it. It should have low miles.

 

dude are you seriously saying that there are no sohc's in japan? do you know what jdm even stands for?

 

well first lets go over JDM. Japan Domestic Market. this means motors that are produced for a car in japan, they take out this motor, and ship it to people like us over here. thats like saying they dont make SOHC cars in the united states.


So basically what your telling me is that no cars in japan are produced with SOHC engines?


im lost man

 

So what motor do you guys think is in the car? I cant find anything about it on the net...
Is there any way to research the serial number on the motor?

 

USDM motors you can call CHP

 

that motor was definitely not made here, and probably is a jdm motor. i have a sohc zc vtec, us equivalent was a d16z6. and more specifically, i've never just seen "D16A" ,...its usually d16a6/a1 etc....

so yeah its not us-spec.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AlLMoToRvOtEr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So if you are so wise on this SOHC thing in Japan. Please explain what HONDA's are produced with single cam motors in japan????????????????? Also what Single cam motors are shipped from japan to the US???????????????????</TD></TR></TABLE>

stop thread jacking and research

 

cool, way to post in all caps

 

So does anyone have any other ideas or suggestions about the motor? I found that it was used in a car called the "Honda Domani 1997" I guess thats a civic like car for Japan, England, and Russia???
If not looks like this thread is beat...

This is what is says about the motor...
ENGINE
Displacement, cc 1590
Engine model D16A
Max.power (Net), kw(PS)/rpm 120 ps (88.26 kw) / 6400 rpm
Max.torque(Net), N*m(kg*m)/rpm 14.7 kg*m (144.16 N*m) / 5000 rpm
Power density 9.5
Engine type Water cooling serial 4 cylinder SOHC16 valve
Engine information HYPER16-VALVE horizontal ranging belt driving
Fuel system Electronic fuel injection system (HONDA PGM-FI)
Turbocharger No
Fuel type Unleaded regular gasoline
LEV system (Low emission vehicle) No
Compression ratio 9.4
Bore, mm 75
Stroke, mm 90
Final gear ratio
Fuel consumption at 10-15 modes, l/100km 7
Fuel consumption at 60 km/h, l/100km

 

hey, im not sure so dont flame me on this but i think that motor could have come from Australia as well. I remember reading a thread on here about a guy in Australia saying that the y7 motors down there came with the y8 manifolds. im not sure if the motor he had was a d16a, but from the pictures above, it looks like a y7 with y8 IM. ill try to see if i can verify this.

 

I've got another question for you guys... I want to replace the spark plug wires, do I need to get 96 and up wires or 92-95 wires? or does it not matter? Thanks again!

 

wtf does it matter?! its an auto.

btw get 96+ plug wires.

 

Thanks for the info... im not here to race, just wanna fix my car...