Current engine has a little over 141k miles on it, time for a rebuild or swap - not looking forward to rebuilding the LS engine for basically the same speed for a couple of months (turbo would be a few months away after rebuild investment) Decided on going with a B18C for awhile, V-TEC and a newer engine should hold me over a couple of months before I turbo the car .

I just got a few questions... Has anybody on this forum done this before? If so, how much did it all cost, specifically how much did it cost for the swap, Cybernation Motorsports here in Florida wanted $1200 for the installation. My other question is, I'd be getting the complete swap on hondamotorsonline.com or one of those other webpages, includes trans, ECU, etc.. Seeing as for the engine to have a little less than 35k miles on it it would probably have to be 98+ engine, is it possible for that to work with ODB1 or am I gonna have to do something else?

Anyways, thanks in advance.. really looking forward to getting that low mileage B18C =/ - Oh yea, how much you think I could sell the LS engine for, if anybody knows of any good shops in the South Florida area that do engine swaps and would probably take the old engine and some cash for the install, let me know.. Thanks

 

keep the ls tranny, motor should work fine with a obcd1(gsr of course) only thing u need besides motor is axels as far as i can think of.

 

the axels are different........i dont think they are??

u can get an obd1 harness from skunk2 i believe its about 200$

 

gs, ls, gsr axles. they're all the same

 

$1200 for labor on an engine swap seems very very high ... i personally wouldnt pay more than 500 - 600 for the labor .. i rebuilt my whole engine and reinstalled it ... you can do it with a jack ..and jack stands ect.... more time consuming since you dont have a shop ... but $1200 ?? in shop i could do the swap in a day ... sooo say what ... 10hrs ? thats $120 an Hour !!!!!!! F' that

even if your a rich kid ... id DEFINATELY shop around first there partner