so me and my buddy tore the head off his d16y7 yesterday and are doing a mini me on it with a y8 head he picked up for $25 (including manifold, edu, head and 2 distributers.... good deal ) and today he went to port the head with a dremal and started to look for differences in sensors and such. 2 questions arose.

1) will we need a knock sensor?
2) the IAC valve on the y7 manifold is 3 wire and is oval shapped while the one on the y8 head is 2 wire and circular much like the map sensor or TPS sernsor, how do we get around this if we plan on using the y8 maninfold with the y7 harness.

thanks for any replys and sorry if this has been posted before but did a search and nothing relavant came up

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=735196

 

oh sorry try this one too: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=615978

and this https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=622675

 

thanks these are a big help

 

another quick question....

anyone know what timing belt and water pump to use? should we order the y8 or y7 water pump or are they the same? and what size timing belt?

 

y8 T belt (although y7 and y8 are the same both 104 teeth) and y7 water pump

 

Y7 timing belt = Y8 timing belt