I want to do a minime swap on my d15b7 with a d16z6.. I live in small town canada so it is hard to find any cat parts that arent for trucks..I was lucky enough to have a friend who had the car I need, he said I can swap parts with his car ( he doesnt care about mods or racing) as long as his car still runs fine afterwards...so my question is, are all d15b7 head parts interchangeable with the d16z6 ( cylinder head, distributor, ecu, intake manifold ect) and also, what do I do with the oil jet? I hear that the d16z6 dont need one, but will it need one once I put the d15 head on it? His car is a 1996 civic btw

 

Okay I'm not quite following you. A 96 would be a D16Y8 not Z6. Which open a whole nother ball of wax due to the 12 degree clocking of cam and the 16 degree of the B7/Z6 motors. The cams are half a tooth different.

The intake and exhausts bolt up to the head(s) just fine. You will need the intake of your motor on the new head so as to keep the fuel rail stock for your car. The distributor is going to change and be different. You may need to gut a Z6 distributor to put into the Y8 housing.

The head bolts differ and I don't remember exactly how it goes for the Y8 head, I think 1 y8 bolt and 7 B7/Z6 bolts? Not really sure as it's been awhile.

Check the faq sticky at the top of the forum and it should have the B7/Y8 minime which has a ton of great info. One part that will counter my opinion is they say it's deck height that is causing the halt tooth variance even though the fix is the opposite cam gear. Which compared is a half a tooth off on keyway clocking. That indicates the camshafts are clocked a half a tooth different which I assume has to do with Honda's desire for a 12 degree ignition timing on the cam. Easiest fix is to adjust the cam mechanically so that TDC is 4 degrees different (I'm guessing half a tooth). But I'm digressing into my opinion.

Before you start this venture, you may want to research as well as clarify exactly what you will have available to you etc.