And he was just as cool a guy as everyone says! I have an appointment to go pick up my ZC next Tuesday. Hopefully I'll be driving it by Wednesday night! hehehe

Anyways. . .Steve said that he was gonna give me a couple optiosn once I get there. He said in addition to the "normal" ZC motors, he also has what he called "Asian spec" ZC motors with the D16A8 number on them. Anyone heard or these? Are they that different from the "normal" ZC's? Should I opt for one motor over the other?

Thanks guys!

 

As far as I know ZC = Japan D16A8 = Europe never heard of Asian Spec

 

Yeah you are right. I did a bunch of research today, and found that the D16A8 is the European version of the ZC. It is basically the same motor, just a different number on the block. I think I might go with this one just to be different. Steve told me that the valve cover on this one looks a bit different than the JDM ZC.

 

Could it be one of the Rover ones? They're also called D16A8s I think.

http://www.geocities.com/civiczc/general/euro_zc.jpg

 

steve owns

 

i hear nothing but good things about steve. can't wait till i get some cash.

 

if the valve cover is brown...dont get that one!! its an integra motor...118 hp

 

Yeah...make sure its black

 

Thanks for the heads-up guys! I'll make sure it's the one with the black cover.

Only one week left!!

I'm going to ditch my A/C while I have the engine bay clear too. I'll be doing this at my brother's work, so we'll have access to the equipment to bleed the A/C system that way I don't kill the trees. My A/C doesn't work anyways, and that should lighten up the car by about 40-50 pounds right?

 

Mine didn't seem to be quite that heavy. I could be wrong though. Take the air box out behind the glove compartment for full weight savings.

 

yeh d16a8 is exactly the same as zc . Im in australia so we only get the d16a8's um and i cant say i had any problems with the engine ran fine just took it out last night to swap in a b16a.

i wouldnt know who steve is but from what ive heard and read he seems cool lol
good luck with ya swap

 

Unless I'm totally mistaken, no D series trannies ever came with LSD. You may be able to get a Kaaz or Quaife to put in it, but you won't find a factory LSD ZC.

Eric

 

I have heard bad things about that place. You might want to read this, I have no experience with them.

http://65.57.232.177/ubb/Forum1/HTML/017825.html

 

ive had many experiances with steve at hondamotorsonline, great guy, great prices, fair and honest. Ive never bought anything that didnt fucntion properly, and if it didnt fucntion properly, im sure he would fix it at no cost. You will be very happy with your ZC motor, he's show'd me his ZC motors, they are in AWESOME condition. I have been to pretty much every so cali distributor of jdm motors, and steve @ hondamotorsonline is the best. Ive been to gomotors.com jdmhondaparts.com nippon-motors.com jdmclub.com and hondamotorsonline.com i find myself always going back to hondamotorsonline

 

Hey Noahk.. .thanks for the heads-up dude! Are you the one that emailed me the other day?

As far as the very FEW bad stories about Steve. . .All of the bad stories that I have heard have been related to shipping hassles. Fortunately I only live an hour or so from the HondaMotorsOnline shop, and I will be going there and meeting face to face with Steve. I will be looking at the motor personally and taking it home myself. So this should eleiminate any problems that I might encounter.

But thanks again for watchin my back!!

Oh yeah. . .only 4 more days 'till I pick it up!! YAY!!

 

Steve is a by far the coolest guy in this buisness.I bought a jdm siR front end off him about a month ago now.I clearly wasnt happy with gettin lights that were knida yellow'd so steve hopped in his car an left me at his pick up spot to dig threw his "jdm" trash,came back with some of the cleanest set of lights I have ever scene.WWW.HONDAMOTORSONLINE.COM for life.

 

Man http://www.hondamotorsonline is the shittiest place i have ever been too they suck ***

j/k i have herd alot of good things about them

 

here is link that should tell you about the different types of zc motors
http://hometown.aol.com/nosajuf/nosajuf.htm

 

I bought my b16a from steve. He would go out of his way to satisfy his customers. The price was good and the product was in excellent condition upon delivery. I would buy from steve anytime.

 

ok for starters there is no olive top zc nor was there ever a zc is a japanese motor teh "olive top zc" is a d16a1 here in the us why do people try and call it a zc the zc is a higher preformance version of the d16a1 get ur info straight people

edith yeh i talked to him thru email cause i didnt wana run my phone bill up and he seemed to be real cool ima call him this week about orderin my EF9 front end and a future purchase of a b16a with a lsd tranny


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