my friend has a '86 crx with a nice sized hole in the block you can see nicely into cylinder #3 and believe ir or not the thing still runs, spews oil everywhere but runs.

ok back the topic at hand. he wants a new motor for his car but dosent want to spend lots of cash. speed itsnt that much of an issue for him he dosent plan on racing it in fact its an automatic and he wants to keep it that way so anysugestions?

 

put in the D16a6, its a cheap find and it shouldn't be too hard to put in (i'm not sure)

 

my thinking exactly that engine should mate to the auto tranny in the car allready right. and we should be able to use his ecu as well

 

what engine was stock in the '86 CRX DX?

 

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first things first, check if his engine is carbbed or fuel injected, if its injected the A6 swap will do nicely or even a ZC would be really nice, if its carbbed then have him throw away the car because the only thing he could easily and cheaply swap is another carbbed engine

 

1.3L=ev1 (carbed/my 1st honda motor )
1.5L=ew1 (carbed)
1.5L=ew3 (fuel inj)

These are one of the few honda motors (that i know of) that have more torque
than hp other than stock b20 b/z (i don't know which). That's some ****.

 

basicly we just want to get the thing back on the road. lil it ran like **** when we first picked it up we knew it needed a new engine so we were screwing around with it my buddy got it to fire up it sounded like crap then all of a sudden it went bang and started running very well. we were like wtf??? well I looked under it to find a very large pool of oil with a large piece of a rod laying on the ground. but it actually runs pretty good on the other 3 cylinders.

anyway back to the point we just want it on the road. he says that the engines form a late 80's integra sould be a direct drop in.

Is it?