ohh boy this is actully fun so far.. yea i was taking of the flywheel and yea you guessed it... stripped a bolt that was fun.. back down off the engine stand and on the floor... hit the **** out of the nut and yep i got it out(damn old bolts).. took the oil pan and all the ditties off to change the main bearings. pulled the crank and to get to the pistons i changing the rod bearings and one of the piston studs fell in the piston after i was almost done putting it all back.. then my friend who was in a hurry decided not to see which number match up on the bottom of the piston back apart again realign them.. other than that it gone pretty smooth piston rings,every gasket known to man and some elbow greese and yep its to the outside for the swap today... wish me luck ladies and fellas as we know nothing will go as planned... later guys more to come im sure...

 

those were just some of the highlights

 

I also wanted to do a dohc zc swap as well to my hatch but dont know what all to get and where to order it from? Did you order it locally??? or have it shipped???Is the motor swap something that I can do with some help from friends or take it to my mechanic??? Any info. would be appreciated Keep ya' head up and post some pix' too if u can! Thanks.

 

ok new update i pull the valve cover off and the bolt from the ex. bearing cap was sticking up almost high enough to touch the valve cover after futher inspection i have three bolts to speck that is all torqe them down and im off to put it in once again wish me luck.....

 

well after one night we got the old si motor out no real problums im that regard and today around five when i get off work its back at it.. i hope all goes well for me in this regaurd as well wish me luck

 

good luck buddy, hope everything goes as planned

 

keep the updates comin

 

No one said swapping was easy or cheap. They should sell a bottle of Advil with each swap! Good luck man. By the way, I'm in Melbourne.....lots of hot Hondas over here.....Anyone know when the next Honda or CRX meet is?

 

thanks for the positive feedback.. at first i was like well i hope at least one person reads this.. then i thought that i would like to know how some one elses swap is coming along so that is what the updates are for and once again thank you for your support

 

arrrggggggh im stuck at home now with no car my girlfriend got stuck doing magement stuff and im home twiddling my thumbs and i need to complete this befor wed arrrggggghhhhhh

 

got a car get ready to leave to go to the place and yep you guessed it it started to rain (i love florida) well looks like it will be tomarrow (yea rain yes im doing this outside)

 

Hey, im in Merritt Island, and the next CRX meet is in september, over in orlando, FLCRXMT 2003, 3rd annual so far. We had a nice turnout last year, this year is supposed to be alot better. People comin all the way from Canada and Cali.

 

well day two and yep you guessed it started raining again and im stuck in it once again so im back home now(after being in the rain for three hours) waiting for it to stop.. Im off tomarrow so im going to go tomarrow at nine am and work all day (fingers crossed it dont rain again) wish me luck

 

well i got some stuff done today.. d16a6 out and zc in well motor and four motor mounts starter..manifold ac bracket.. Tomarrow looks like i just have to plug it all back up and you know radiator hoses and oil little stuff so i feel good im sure its almost over now just those thing and hope it starts LOL and check for the codes lol again later people wish me luck

 

Another post I read and another I ask... why take out the A6 to replace it with a ZC???
The outcome is pretty much the same and the money you used for the ZC you could had used for the A6...

Was the A6 shot?
just my .02 cents...

 

i just want the engine that should have been in there anyway.And i wanted to start with a simple swap for me its only my second. Plus im tired of people here in orlando thinking the only motor that can produce power is a bseries motor.. i think a turbo zc will just do fine.I hope i have answered you question.Plus if you know where i can find a zc hood write back>>>>>

 

ohh one more thing about putting the motor back in....That damn front motor mount yea the really easy one took me near a hour because i couldnt get the bottom bolt in...Damn im getting mad just thinking about it..(lol)I even have a bloody nuckle to prove it(ioi)

 

well im done i had a little hard time starting it i switched the white wires and it fired right up no real issues today i got a code on the way home but i am tired and ill get to it tomarrow that sure was a lot of work and im sunburned now but it is a learning process... im sure i will have some question now that it is in on codes and stuff but i will be closing this whole chapter.. i hope you people enjoyed my posts and thanks for all the support i got through this later all

 

I'm glad your swap went well. I have a ZC in my CRX and love it! Very nice engine. There are some good posts about turbo ZC's as well as some great web pages...search around. September is the next meet? Hell yeh, I'll be there. I think we all should write our HT user name or something on a piece of paper cause' meets are the first time some of us get to see each other face to face...just an idea...

 

very true dude im up for it definatialy

 

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Congrats on your swap. Mine has been... interesting. I went by what I thought was the factory wiring order on the ECU, the way they number their pins. Well, according to all the posts, they count pins differently than the factory did. I could see the numbers on my ECU plug, but they didn't quite match. Me being dumb, I decided I'd GUESS at which wires to move and where to. Hope I didn't fry my ECU. Tomorrow I'm going to look at it and see if I hooked it up wrong. The engine will crank, but no spark/fuel and no ECU lights going off. Hope I can pull this one out...