Last night as i was leaving my girlfriends house i heard a noise so i got out and popped the hood to see what was wrong and the part where my motor mount connects to my block has broke off the block, please say there is another way to fix this other than replacing the block? i dont know if it matters but it is a d16y8 in a 1998 Honda civic ex

 

did it brake the block or the mount?

 

do you have pics?

 

post pics of damage

 

if the block has actually broken then it is repairable. BUT not just any welder can weld cast iron. and a smaller percentage of those can weld it strong enough for a motor mount.

 

youre kidding right?

 

uh honda blocks are not cast iron....so if the block is broken you will have to find someone willing to weld aluminum If its just the mount its self then yes it is cast iron and you are better off replacing it cast iron is s bitch to weld correctly.

 

no it is the actual block that is broke and yes i have talked to the guy and he said that it would cost 500 and i could just bring the car to him and he could do the rest which would be pull the motor and take it to a person that can weld aluminum and they would fix it, do you think that this sounds reasonable or should i say the right thing to do?

 

sorry at work no pics

 

your best bet if that is the case is to just buy a new block or engine,d series engines are a dime a dozen

 

get a new block.
thats your best bet

 

I would see if you can find someone else to do the work maybe with the engine in the car. It would save you a ton of work and money not having to pulling the engine. If thats not an option you might be better off finding a used motor the only run a few hundred to pick up

 

yeah i would if it was just a stock motor, but it is a fully built d16 and i was about to put a crower stage 2 cam in it and that would complete it and then soon i was thinking of a small shot of nitrous because it was built for nitrous. i was going to do a 75 shot because it was built for a 150 shot

 

one thing though i have a d16z6 in my backyard, it is just that i dont really want to swap all my pistons and rods over to that motor and everything because this is a y8 and it is bored .20 over and all that good jazz

 

yank your internals out and stuff them in a new block. should be able to be welded in the car, i dont see why you would need to yank it

 

BLAHAHROLFCOPTERBBQLAWL... Did he say cast iron ._.

 

i dont know i might see what i can do instead of having them do that and hopefully they wont screw me

 

but you see i have never done anything like that and this is my daily driver and i dont want to mess anything up

 

Grab your local phone book start calling welders that have a support truck that can come to your place and do it. its another option

 

well my uncle has a tow company and he towed me to the place that he thought would do us right, i guess you could say, but idk if i want to spend 500 bucks to get that **** fixed

 

i mean really has this happened to anyone else?

 

i just talked to my mechanic and i think i might go drag racing style and they are going to fix the top one and we are going to chain that mother ****er in there and strap it to where it aint moving at all.....it is worth a try atleast rather than spending 500 bucks

 

Eh you should do it right. Dont do some ghetto stuff. A few hundred is nothing in the long run. I would get a new block. Yeah it sucks but its the best way to do it. Stuff happens.

 

well i am just gonna do this for now and save up because im broke

 

500 hundred sounds steep to me but i guess if you are paying them to pull the engine take it apart and weld or replace the block then its not. it sounds to me like you have a little exp working on this car why not save yourself a boat load of cash and pull the engine yourself and take the block in to be fixed