I've seen this term in Titles but I've never read them, I was wondering if someone could tell me what it is? As much info as possible please thanks in advance

 

in short, its putting a sohc vtec head on your stock block. either the z6 head off of a 92-95 civic ex-si or a y8 head off of a 96-00 civic ex-si would be the heads to swap!

 

a mini me is when a stock 16v SOHC 1.5 L or 1.6L engine block is mated with a d16z6 or d16y8 head. Both heads are a SOHC VTEC HEAD.

So in essance you get a SOHC VTEC with 1.5L of diplacment or 1.6L depending on the block used. This also produces more tourque then a regular SOHC VTEC becuase of higher compression ratio.....

Hope that helps

 

Mini me's are also refered as a SOHC VTEC engine...
since the B series are DOHC and have vtec .. the SOHC are like the little brother.... its refered as a mini engine... derivered from the austin powers movie. mini me referes as a small VTEC engine... its simple... also refers as mating the VTEC head into a D series block.... but both are "Mini me"

peace

 

What else is there to it? Is it just swapping the head? Or is there more to it?

 

you will have to rewire for MPFI if not already done so. wait NM you dont have to but id suggest you do so as well as intake mani swap.......

 

for a mini me
u can either swap a whole SOHC VTEC engine
or just the head....
some people claim that a hybrid produces more power... but IMO the longblock its better
and like CRX said u gotta swap the intake manifold from DPFI to MPFI if it hasnt been done.... not a big deal....

 

i thot there was more to it than just swapping heads. like vtec controller and rewiring stuff. correct me if im wrong.... BTW whats the best computer to use with a mini me? and which would u guys suggest... 92-95 head or the 96?

 

The best ecu to use on a mini-me would be an OBDI P28 with OBDI to OBD0 jumper harness and OBDI engine electrical components (distributor + injectors). You can go the "cheap" route and keep the stock Si ecu and use a Field's or Apex-i VTEC + Fuel controller. Or you could go the "ultra cheap" route and keep the stock Si ecu and use a cheap RPM switch to activate the VTEC.

 

I know it may be wishful thinking but I think I may have this done to my car or my engine is really starting to go down hill. I just got this car like 3 weeks ago, so what's been done to it isn't my doing. When I was going through the car at a friend of mines dealership,I ran across the ad the person must of had on the car, there were a few things on there CAI, Cat back, and one was a head. I can't tell you which head cause i gave the ad to guy at the shop to dispose of.

I know it's got the DPFI, but when the car is cold I don't have this rattle (which could be pinging) but when it's warm she'll rattle under load. Right now I run 87 octane, i'm gonna step up to 93 and run a octane boost to see if the rattle goes away.

I guess the question in this is, is there any way to identify the head? Where should I look for a stamping of the code?

thanks in advance

 

Right below the valve cover on the head itself, there will be a casting - it will have the model # of the head and date of manufacturing.

 

also if u look near the side of the head, where the headers are u should see a little circle with 2 letters and a number on it... liike PM6, PM9, PG7, P28 and **** like that.... thats the ECU code from it was originally from.... look at that , post it and we can tell u what car it was from....

 

Ok, I found some codes. On the head I found PM3-12 and on the header I found AG-SI or could be a 1 after the S and there was also 8T 18 on the header. I hope this helps figure out what I got.