Hey guys i need some help here .....My civic which currently has a d15b2 in it blew the head gasket for the second timeso i said **** it and ripped the motor out and baught another car for the engine......well i didnt notice this before but now that I got the motor out it says ZC on the block.....now is the motor a 1.5L or a 1.6L?
this car has mpfi where mine has dpfi im doing the mpfi swap but will this motor bolt in and start up with out anymore configurations??? thanks in advance

 

all ZCs are 1.6L - if it is OBD0, it should bolt right in and connect up same as if it were D16A6 Si engine

 

good find, as long as that engine runs good you should be very happy with it. ZCs are great!

 

you will need an injector resistor box and a ecu but you could just rip those from the other car..

 

consider the engine like any other d16 when doing the mpfi swap.

i should mention that the SOHC ZC engine comes in both carbed and mpfi versions. the difference would be in the cam. you will be able to tell by looking at the back of the head, on the passenger side of the engine, theres a port in the casting. is the casting closed? like never machined open? if its a nice closed pocket, the head is MPFI ZC. if its open or plugged up, it was a carbed ZC.

heres the difference in the cams.
http://www.norcalcrx.org/tyson/SOHC_Cam.html

 

Use new head bolts and torque them correctly and you wont have that problem. Assuming you got the head resurfaced.

 

Like Tyson stated above the engine bolts right up.

I have one, but it's the V-Tec version of the SOHC ZC. Still haven't gotten around to wiring up the V-tec though.

 

Hey cool beans..my dad blew the motor in my 4 door EF (dont know how he did it) and im doin the same swap..but just gonna use all the DX crap..i shoulda threw a B series in it but owelllll good luck dude! later.

 

wait run that by me again? lol where would this be? wana double check if mine is a sohc