My girlfriend recently bought a '94 DX from a friend of mine. It had 115K, but it had "engine trouble". He picked up another motor for it and we bought it. Car and new motor for $550.

I was hosting the pics for another site, so I figured I'd put them up here to see what you guys thought.

Here's some before and after pictures:















Here it is on the road!




Modified by Hybrid-Fusion at 4:07 PM 1/5/2007

 

what the hell happened to that d15?

 

I just did that swap. I got a japanese d15b. and my car is faded red.

 

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Hydrolock as far as I can tell. It was a flood car.

 

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Faded red... just like every other EG. Did you wire VTEC in yet?

 

hm interesting, when i hyrdolocked my d15, i threw a rod in the same spot.

 

I just realized that not all the pics are there!


ALL LOADED NOW!

 

is everything working fine

 

lol

Yeah, "engine trouble" would be one way to describe it.

 

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Yep. This is my first Honda swap and I know it's nothing special, but I was excited about it. Wired it up for VTEC a few days ago and borrowed the ECU out of the Integra. A two step sounds pretty funny on a stock motor!

 

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When I looked at it and saw the whole in the back I figured that was it. Then I removed the AC bracket...

 

The car is currently running a D15B7 manifold because the D16Z6 only came with an upper manifold. We'll probably just pick up a DC header for it soon...

 

buff the car it will be way better. if you can swap this motor, you should be able to swap any other one. Clean job.

 

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Thanks. I have a '99 EX coupe that I'd like to swap a GSR into when the time comes. Unfortunately I think it will be a little more expensive.

 

good job there..

and thanks for cleanin up that bay a bit...looks ALOT better now..

 

the new engine looks better w/o a hole imo...nice switch

 

that first pick looked like rat was building a nest in there. Good thing you got to it when you did.

 

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Yeah a GSR is gonna cost a bit more. but its worth it .

 

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and thanks for cleanin up that bay a bit...looks ALOT better now..
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Yeah, I think so too. Thanks!

 

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Yeah, I can't stand dirty engine bays.

 

good job

 

nice job...i also noticed that you cleaned up your engine bay looks great

 

Looks like you did a really clean swap there, nice work man!

 

yep, vtec is wired up, and car is running, only problem is the downpipe is so much bigger than my stock exhaust, gotta go to a shop have them do some custom fitting.

 

Good job man! You inspire other people that will soon be doing thier first motor swap.

If you could do it all over again, like rewind time to before the swap was attempted...is there anything you would have done differently? Since it was your first time, I don't know if everything went exactly as planned and whatnot. I assume you kept the same trans right? Just swapped the longblock and called it a day?

How long did it take? I'd rather ask YOU these questions than someone who's already done a swap a bunch of times since it was your first time and you probably have about the same knowledge as I do. I know a decent amount and I'm pretty mechanically inclined I just happened to never have the opportunity to personally swap a motor.

Thanks, and congratulations! It was a pretty risky attempt since it was your g/f's car. If it was my own car and there was a few problems that delayed things a few days...i'd be able to deal with it. My g/f would be wondering what the hell I did wrong, and why she cant drive her car immediately, haha.