alright first things first i dont know much bout the zc's i recently bought a 89dohc zc i bought it cuz it was cheap ahaha but it only came with the block and head the only thing i know bout the zc is that people compare them with the d16s so i was wondering if the **** of my old d16y8 would fit like the axles mounts harness starter dizzy ecu etc well bassically the small stuff like that and also the tranny wat type does that use a d series ? ... now thats out of the way can the zc be dropped into a 95 civic ex coupe ?

 

Whether or not it fits depends on exactly what ZC it is, the early versions similar to the D16A1s found in the '86 - '89 integras wont work. The versions found in the '88 - '91 JDM civics will though, as will the '92 - '95 JDM version. You will need the ZC intake, nothing else fits, you will also need an OBD1 ZC distributor (they aren't easy to find) you will need to grind the ports in your exhaust manifold slightly as all 4 ports are shifted over to one side slightly. You can reuse your harness, transmission and axles, alternator, mounts.

Oh yeah, good luck passing smog with it.

Edit, your old D16Y8? in a '95 coupe? If its a '95 that engine was swapped in there, '96 was the first year for the Y8.

 

i had a an ej8 b4 hint the name ... and the 95 coupe its just some shell they let me have

 

but yeah im using stuff that i got left from my part out ... and how do i find out which one i got cuz some guy was telling me that u can find a stamp which tells u what year the engine was manufactured and i looked and it has a 89 he also was tellin me bout the serial number that if it starts with a 2 its from a civic and if starts with a 5 it came from a integra but he wasnt sure so that kept me skeptical so yeah can someone help me out with this

 

You can check out thezcr.com for some good ZC information including identification. The biggest thing is the mount, if it has a normal civic style timing belt post mount it will work, if it uses the '86 - '89 integra style front mount it wont work.

 

alright thanx man for the info oo and one more thing um do u think its worth me trying to drop the zc in there or just wait it out to get a diff swap

 

Gsr = ftw

 

Seeing as how you're in california probably not, that engine will fail emissions on multiple levels:

-its older than the car its going into, automatic visual fail
-its a DOHC ZC (there is no USDM equivelant of this engine if its the civic version, again automatic fail for visual
-no compatible USDM ECU

if you lived in a less strict emissions state and had a complete OBD1 ZC swap i'd say go for it, they're decent engines, just theres a lot working against you in your case.

 

alright thanx again .. how much do u think the zc is worth ? just the block and head

 

150 plus for head and block?

 

Probably not a whole lot, especially in California. A friend of mine bought a complete used OBD1 JDM DOHC ZC, with a bad distributor for $350 last winter, and I live in a province with no emissions testing.

 

well all i got is the head and block

 

I dunno, $200? put best offer on it and see what kind of offers you get.

 

alright thanks for the help once again

 

ya just keep it SOHC anyway

 

well the thing is that is just a shell i got from this one guy he had a gsr in there .. so now i got a shell in backyard and i wanna drop an engine in there

 

lol get a d15b7 and put it in there for like $50 or something.

 

naw im koo with the sohcs right now especially a d15 ahaha

 

ya SOHC is the ****. and D15B7 is SOHC.

 

naw im koo with the sohc theyre cool and all but yeah not for me no more ahaa

 

the swap isnt that hard to do the distributor can be found the manifold is probably hard to find ive got one but thats the hardest

 

but the thing is that my budget right now is $0 ahaha

 

ya $0 budgets are hard to work with.

 

keep on topic with the original question

 

I'd say the original topic is pretty much dead at this point. OP had an '89 DOHC ZC (unknown origin) and was going to swap it onto a '95 coupe at this point has basically given up on it.