I have to go and see a referee. I was wondering how they tell the actual year of the motor. Or do the just make sure it is the same obd. Someone that has gone thriugh this please let me know. Thanx

 

The year should be stamped on the head. I think the year stamped may be a year older than the block/motor. My 01 has 00 on the head. On the US motors you can tell by the 10th digit of the VIN on the block.

 

Also.. good luck at the smog ref! There are quite a few members on here from California that have got there swaps BAR approved and should be abvle to awnser any questions you may have

 

i asked this same thing on a couple other boards......puzzled me too

 

bump for a good question,
because the head could have been replaced, like if you go to autozone and order a cyclinder head for a gsr (yes they can get them) it will range from years 94-00, whichever one they recieved as a core from a previous customer.

i jdm swap and was wondering how they could tell the year of the motor from a jdm car.

 

another way to do this would be to look at the vinplate on the bottom of the block.. run the vin on carfax... and this will tell u exactly what car that motor came off of....... passing ref is not easy when you did too many mods..... they check everything including the ECU, gas cap for pressure, timing, the good ol' sniffer.... etc... let us know how things work out

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdm1.8LSi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">another way to do this would be to look at the vinplate on the bottom of the block.. run the vin on carfax... and this will tell u exactly what car that motor came off of....... </TD></TR></TABLE>

JDM engines don't have VIN plates. It's difficult to come up with the exact year of the motor, aside from the stampings on the head which are most likely correct, but yet, you never know.

 

when i took my JDM motor to the ref they just took my word for the year of the motor...

I told them 95 but my motor is a 94....i didnt want any trouble cause my ecu was a 95....

a good way to tell them the year is to get a receipt for the motor and have a year on it...

just say everything you bought went with the reciept year......

im sure that because there were only 2 years to get the OBD right for my motor it was not that big of a deal.....meaning that 94 and 95 were both OBDI and the emissions for the two motors are not different....

 

oh yeah...my fault haha i forgot you guys were talking about JDM motors
and even if there was a vin plate..... you cant run a jdm vin on carfax.. hhaha

 

search is your BEST friend been covered & answered - go here https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=515028
has picture & how to find out year of head (not block sorry)
BTW its the first group of lil numbers you see in pic - just above the header

EDIT me - sorry thats for the head as well - sorry (I was unable to find any definitive answer as to how to find out year of the block
Modified by adirondackR at 9:59 AM 8/1/2003


Modified by adirondackR at 10:07 AM 8/1/2003