Hey everyone my roomate just bought a 99 ek coupe with the D16Y5 motor and manual tranny from a fellow H-T member. The car already had an AEM cold, Eibach pro-kit, KYB 8way adj, generic front strut bar and came with a Si front lip, ctr style grill and rear sway bar. The motor and tranny has almost 200k on it and the body/interior is pretty good.

My question would be if the motor is worth taking out, getting it blueprinted and putting it back in to build from there. OR get a D15B, P30, and keep it on the Y5 tranny and axels. He doesn't have enough to go B so that's not an option, less then 2k price range so open to opinions.

I'll post up pictures tomorrow and a list of future plans and such. Thanks for the feedback!


Modified by jdm_ef3 at 7:18 PM 4/10/2006

 

http://www.d-series.org is where you want to go for all your sohc needs. honda-tech hates the d series. for 2g's you can build a pretty decent N/A sohc using all oem parts. unless your going turbo.

 

Thanks, yeah I'm looking through there now.

 

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Ummm...honda-tech does not hate d series. If you didn't know, 2 of our 3 mods run turbo D series. A lot of the eg-ek roamers run a turbo d series as well. To the original poster, check out d-series.org, as well as doing some searching here on honda-tech. There is a lot more info on this site than on d-series in my opinion.

 

rebuild with boost in mind.. and start pieceing a turbo kit together....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xcessivespeedz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">rebuild with boost in mind.. and start pieceing a turbo kit together.... </TD></TR></TABLE> Thank you, from the research I've been doing on d-series and here I think that is the option we're going to go with. I posted this more as a build thread with some questions thrown in the mix. Thanks for the feedback and I'll get them pix up tomorrow after work

 

edit: looked at the block and it's a Y5, ohh well I guess it's still worth building. Here are the pictures







what do you guys think of these wheels?



Modified by jdm_ef3 at 10:21 PM 4/10/2006

 

Today we put in:
Denso Iriduim plugs
Bosch wires - will be replaced shortly with Nology
Castrol Syntec w/ Fram filter
OE fuel filter
Ceramic pads

and fixed the driver side window, had to buy a regualtor from honda and I think the motor is going bad. I also sanded down the Si front lip because it was blue with black splotches also bought a 4wire Bosch 02 senser however the one that needs to be replaced is the 5 wire can anyone help me with the 5 wire to 4wire conversion? After some research I think we're going to pull the motor, get the block blueprinted and possible get the crank knifedged. Put on a Z6 or Y8 head and intake manifold. I'm still undecided if I want to convert to OBD1 and run a P30. Any thoughts or suggestions on this?

 

Although I really miss my car, I couldnt of sold my car to a nicer guy. I rest assured it will be taken care of.

Now its time to build my Monster DA9


Modified by civic duty at 10:48 AM 4/12/2006

 

yeah i thought i saw this car for sale on ht.

good luck on ur build

 

Yeah there's the old owner, civic duty. I'm glad we were able to meet up, she's in good hands now

 

you should try to get a ls swap for that money then later swap a vtec head on it if your gonna spend the money on bluprinting and building it might end up costing the same

 

you think we get buy an LS, tranny, obd1 conversion and ecu for less then 2k

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1414454 has tons of information on the y5 engine, and some discussion of its potential, both n/a and turbo

 

Thank you for the link to that thread! Good find