ive got my 98 ek hatch now and i just got done odering my B18c-r and was wondering if anyone could give me some good shops that know how to do it. it would help of you would post their web sites but phone numbers are still ok. also if youve gotten swaps done from any of those shops could you post the good and bads

 

Read up and do it on your own, save yourself a bundle, not to mention, you'll know a lot more about your car, and you can buy yourself a nice set of tools, shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 days if you spend enough time reading before hand and the swap is pretty complete. Good luck.

 

thats a pretty big investment to do yourself unless u have boys to help or u really know what ur doing....my .02...

 

Not really I jumped in and did it myself, without any experience with honda swaps. Took me 9 hours.

 

im sure there are only like 1000000 millions shops within a 5 mile radius in any part of cali

 

There's a guy in SJ that I bought a set of axles off of that do swaps. He has a shop behind his house and seems pretty legit. He is also a member here on h-t but I forgot his sn. Anyway his shop is called Hybrid Automotive, and his name is Jeff Sloan.

http://www.hybridautomotive.com

Good luck brotha.

 

just go ahead and give it a try yourself. I watched my friends do them before and then did my first one in my car in like 8 hours with a friend and then when we pulled that one, we did a running to running swap in 4.5 hours. it is really simple.

 

yeah i really want to do it myself just that i dont know anything about swapping motors in. is there a place where i could read up on and gives me step by step ways to do the swap

 

heres a general Idea of swapping:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=447623

its a b20 going into a 96-98 hatchie.

 

buy a helms manual and go from there. you really only need a very few tools to do it. go to sears and get yourself one of those $100 sets and you are good to go.