So last week i got tired of the b16 in my hatch and I decided to rob my CRX's C5, this was one of the biggest mistakes i have made ever. The swap was in, i had a LSD YS1 tranny installed and everything was perfect, WRONG my buddy told me that the clutch on the C5 was almost gone and i needed to change it (i should have checked it B4 I put the tranny on the engine but i was too pumped to think about something like that) so i pull the engine out and pull the tranny off and put in a 6 puck with the stock OEM pressure plate.

Everything was ready again and i swapped in the motor in to the hatch, i was pumped and just ready to run the car. Only one problem, the axle shaft didnt want to come out of the inter shaft on the old inter shaft, so i used a differnt shaft and a different axle. After 1 full day of messing with it and not realizing that the axle wasnt going to slide all the way into the shaft i decided to use the old inter. shaft with the old shaft stuck in it. So i go get a new CV boot install it. I put in the shaft with the axle stuck in it together onto the swap, i then install the pass. side axle and everything is ready to go WRONG again, my buddy had left with my PR3 because he was making another chip for my PR3, so another 2 days go by B4 i get the ECU back.

He gets back 2 days later and explains to me how he forgot the ECU was in his car yadah yadah, i didnt care i wanted to run the car right then and there, so i put on the wheels double check everything plug and I plug in the ECU. i crank the engine over and it turns on instantly. The motor sounded nice and it was ready to rip my tires apart. I start to pull out of the bay, and i hear a clack, i think to my self "its only a wrench that i ran over or something" so i keep on going. i start turing the wheel to leave my drive way and i hear clack clack CLACK. So i then get out of the car. I knew something was up. I check and see what was up, it was no biggie the pass side axle and broken apart at the CV joint WRONG again. I lift the car and as i start to pull the axle and I notice a HOLE in my tranny, the axle had snapped out of the shaft and made a hole through my cable tranny .

I was then over the B18C5 (it was evil, and had bad luck ) i wanted just to blow the whole car up, because besides what i mentioned here another million things went wrong in this swap. My buddy knew i was pissed and that i need a running car so he offered me his 93 EG Ex coupe for just the longblock, i was desperate in need so i took the engine out for like the 4th time and traded the engine for this EG
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=739023

Here are some pics of the damage and the B18C5 hatch that never got to run

The Corporate's




The Hole





The EF that never got to run



Modified by Nerologic at 10:11 AM 1/21/2004

 

ouch, nothing a little JB weld cant fix

 

damn dude,

I feel your pain.

 

I would cry if that was me

 

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i swear thats the same exact **** that i thought in my head when i saw the hole in the tranny hahahah

 

Man that really sucks..... aleast you didn't blow the motor! and you got something out of it but still man I know the felling. Good luck! Rob

 

damn sorry to hear about that, espically a good tranny as well, ys1 :D
so is the tranny gone as well now, that's unfortunite for you, but hey, new project now right?

 

my newe project is putting in a sohc in the hatch and selling it, im going to buil up my CRX once i have time thats the car this swap should have gone in...

 

OUCH...

 

Couldnt you have the tranny flushed and welded or is gone to tranny heaven?

Blaze

 

Had you run that tranny before? Did you look at the area where the hole is before installation? That hole doesn't look cracked or busted, it looks melted! Yeah your axle is busted, but did that cause the hole? Wrecking yards frequently torch axles instead of pulling them. This hole is in the area just behind the joint where they would torch the axle. I dunno, If you just bought the tranny, someone may have sold it to you that way? Is that melted aluminum on top of the tranny next to the hole?
HTH
chris

 

You got a really good point there. Could be right

 

7P's. Proper planning procedure prevents **** poor performance.

 

Looks like there is some melted looking metal on the tranny too?

 

Wow...that is one pos hatch...

Sux about the engine tho. Thats why paitence is the key to success.

 

I actually think (judging from the pics) that that hole was already there, and someone previously tried to patch it up.

 

I know how the million different motors in one car that goes nowhere feels but what can ya do.
Good luck.
Now what motor?

 

that trany looks ok, as long as it didn't hurt anything inside, i'd tear it down and weld it up with an aluminium welder

 

hmm ur axel probably wasn't on right maybe not clipped in.

same thing happened to my friend he forgot to check it and he chipped some off the tooth where the axel slides in.

good luck on the next project.

 

the hole wasnt there b4 and it wasnt heated or anything (i think) for one i ran the tranny with the orig. b16 it came with and 2 when i pulled off the tranny one of the bearings that go inside the tri-leg inside the CV boot was inside the hole of the tranny and on top of all the i heard the clacking. And ya i suck i have no patients i just wanted to drive the gay car this isnt the first time my paitence has ruined me, and i know its not the last. As for the tranny im going to transfer everything from this case into an LS one that i picked up today, but hopefully i will find a YS1 case, so the gears will be back at home. The hatch is done with im going to put in a motor SOHC ZC B series what ever (anyone have a swap that wants to get rid of it for cheap in SoCa?l SOHC prefferd but i will take a ZC or b series swap for cheap) anyways ya i want to get rid of the car and get back to my CRX the car the C5 should have gone in. As for the CRX i dont know what im going to put in, i was thinking about installing another h22 into a EF but i already went through hell last time i did so just to have the car totaled 2 weeks after by a drunk driver. So im not sure what i will do with the CRX but first i need to get the hatch out of here and start on the CRX.....

 

anyone have as cheap swap for sale in SoCal? no one has pulled out there stock setup and its just sitting there rotting??

 

DAmm that's a ghetto hatch, I thought my 4dr is Ghetto!

 

that sucks so you were going with the sleeper look?

 

ya its ghetto, i used to off-road it with the B16 i had in it b4, i had integ springs on civ shocks so it was way lifted in front...matter of fact i have a picture of my like 2 feet in the air right behind a truck, il have to look for that and post it...only thing that sucked about getting 2 ft off the ground was that the oil pick up and oil pan went to chet when i landed that jump