Ive got a 97 civic hatch with a d16y7 and a rod knock. the story goes the the previous owner took it to have an oil change and they never put any oil back in it. the car drove for week before it got a bad rod knock. i ended up with car.

i have a 91 d15b2 sitting here and was wondering if i could use the bottom end from it and put the y7 head on it. its just a commuter car so i'm not really worried about power.


what will it take to make this work?


thanks!

 

Yes it should work, but you wll need different head studs if i remember correctly. I was gonna do this with my d15b7 but put a y8 head and mini-me build it. i swapped to a full z6

 

search mini-me. basically the same thing. you need the y7 timing belt, y7/y8 hg, and you might need one y8 headbolt. im not entirely sure on this one, but if i remember correctly one of yours is too short.

 

think this could be reliable? i've been doing some reading and it seems like this combo will raise the compression. somewhere around 10.5-10.6. the stock y7 is 9.4 and the stock b2 is 9.2. how much tuning do you think it would take to get this to run properly? do you think it would have similar power to the to the stock y7 because of the compression increase?

thanks for the help so far!

 

You need to swap the waterneck from the y7 to the b2

 

Yes it is a reliable thing, but when something goes wrong your always looking for random *** parts, i would say swap the whole thing. I try to stray from mini-mes now

 

yeah, its fine. mini mes have been running around forever... do the swap, save your change for a d15b or something.