I just bought a 90 integra gs and was going to put on a bseries dc sports header but I found out there is not enough cleareance to just unbolt the old header and bolt in the new header. Anyone know what exactly I have to remove to get this done?

 

i have a 1-piece 4-1 header, and i had to remove my clutch slave cylinder from the tranny to get the beast in there. you could probably just remove the radiator fan or the a/c unit also. any one of those three should make it easy.

 

drop your front cross member. 4 bolts i beleive? i was lucky enough i was dropping in my new motor when i got my dc 4-1 ;D

 

thanks!! will let you know if I get it in. hopefully i have time today.

 

if you drop the cross member you can bring the header from the bottom up

 

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you mean this part right? sorry for bad pic was dark out when i took it

 

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you mean this part right? sorry for bad pic was dark out when i took it

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no the part that it bolts to with the radius rods and the front engine mount bolt too

also that bar that goes from front to back of the cross members(with the 3 bolts) you can take that off and leave it off

 

 

whoa, can this be done without airtools? Those bolts looked like they would be a b@#$! to get out.

 

breaker bar dude. ;P there not that tuff. i removed mine in a parking lot when doing my ls/vtec build. "in the snow too" lol

 

thanks for all the help chriskona and others, will get off early just to get it done and get my hands greasy

 

oh, sorry, i didn't see you have a DA. wow, you guys have funny cars. that diagram makes me think your car is funny. hopefully it's fast, and you can prove me wrong

 

ok I got all them parts off, wasn't very hard but time consuming because I wanted to make sure not to break or lose anything or remove anything that did not need to be removed. Got the stock header out and then my good day turned bad. The DC header fit to the head but was too short to reach the CAT!!! also the flange on the CAT was about 90 degrees out of phase to that of the header. Guess I'll have the muffler shop do the install while they install the new CAT I bought.

 

got it all done, car even passed emissions with the new cat.

one big questions in the picture chriskona put up I couldn't get the #1 item ( bar that connects #3 to #2) can I leave it off, what ways can I reinforce it or do i have to. there will be a ls/vtec once I get the conversion kit.

 

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are you talkin about number one?

 

In the green circle.

 

i think its a reenforcement your front end could bend from weight and turque without it.

 

i think..im not running mine, gsrs dont have em from the factory and thier engine bays are the same as the rest of the models

 

ouch two contradicting post: framed damage not good. Anyone know for sure please help.

 

i just remembered i dont have anything like that in my DA and i dont remember seeing one in my old 96

 

i was wondering the same thing, but i looked around on g2ic at some of the "g2gurus" and others post and found out that the gsr's dont have em and the engine bays are the same

 

That's good to hear, i was worried for a moment. Since i know for sure my car does not have one. (92 GS-R)

 

just in case are there aftermarket reinforcements that can offset any negatives to removing this part. I do plan to make this an ls/vtec and well would rather not run into problems later.

thanks for all the replies you guys are awesome keep it up

 

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i know if've talked to ppl that have swaped in vtec motors(b16) and had to remove the crossbar thing because it wouldnt clear the oil pan

 

i have a ls/vtec in my DA with no bar, so far it handles fine. its only been in 3 or 4 weeks.