Its been a long week at HMT, I've been trying to get my girlfriend leia's (rsxprincess) Built H22 in her 98 Civic HB. This was my first h22 swap.



Using Endyn Rollerwave pistons on Eagle H Beam rods. All in a sleeved (Darton) h22 block



My GF measuring ring end gap



Installing the pistons, I was having a difficult time using my cheezey ring compressor so I had to go back to my old faithful one.



I had her lube her holes, just incase it got tight ;D



Longblock assembled



Lubing the cams, Trans prep grease is my favorite on anything, it melts into ATF.



I removed the balance shafts and plugged them up with some aluminum fittings, However... It didnt cross my mind that I had to cover up this, so we had a little oil leak



Also the next problem was once the shafts were out, I would have oil blowing out through the balance shaft feeds and that would mean starving oil in the mains. (thanks for the reminder josh!) I ended up threading 5 plugs in the main caps and 1 in the block. (shown above is the oil passages that needed to be blocked off)



Some goodies for the night of the install



I had the engine all ready with the tranny on my engine/tranny stand for install. I spent about 3 hours splicing the 98 Obd2 y7 harness into the 94 Obd1 h22 harness.



H22's use different connectors on things, the alternator is in the front, and lots of other goofy things, so I had to lengthen about every wire on the harness. It really wasnt to bad.



haha, had to install the sticker, GF hates them



Steamed out the engine bay before the install. The hasport mounts come with all the brackets as well.



had my buddy doing all the bitch work



Ah yes, the luxary of having a lift, just set the car right down on the engine/trans. Think we have a nice shop now? I'm moving to a brand new shop next month which is way bigger



Someone was a bit sleepy!



More bitch work..



Using a OBD2-1 Jumper Harness (thanks Stephan) to a Chipped P28 w/ Uberdata (thanks Dave)

Also had my manual oil pressure gauge installed in the car just to make sure everything was going to be ok.



The shifter assy was the only part of the swap I was concerned about because I had never done it, nor have I seen any good documentation on how to do it. We looked everywhere. It just says cut holes mount shifter and thats it, Basically you have to enlarge the stock shifter hole so the prelude shifter assy can be mounted in, and cut about a 2in hole so the shifter cables can come inside. It wasnt to bad at all.



The exhaust was the next challenge, since the nice guys in Japan decided to cut the exhaust right off on the downpipe exhaust flex section we couldnt bolt anything to it, and since the car is going to get new exhaust later on we figure we would just stuff the stock 2in exhaust inside the stock prelude downpipe.



welding up the DP to the exhaust.



Cranked it over until we built up about 40psi of oil pressure, then plugged in the distributor and it fired right over first try! It had a CEL for IACV which was one of my concerns when I was doing the wiring, the Y7 uses a 3wire IACV and the OBD1 Prelude uses a 2wire. Repinned 1 wire on the ecu and fixed it.



All installed, I was very impressed on how smooth this thing ran without the balance shafts



The overall install was pretty easy.

Our first test drive didnt go to well, we used the stock prelude intermediate shaft along with 94 GSR axles. The passenger side axle was too tight and created a really bad vibration at 35mph.



So the next day me and my buddy josh cruised the Orange Crush to pick up a 86-89 integra Axle (right) because it was about 1/4 of an inch shorter.



We also stopped by the local mall and gots these killer MilkShakes that had these tapiocca ***** at the bottom (and huge straws) Josh was ******* nailing everyone!! This guy got really pissed when we nailed the side of his Jimmy, hahaha



Also swung by the house and picked up my new CustomCoach 8in Intercooler (www.speedpartsrus.com). This IC will be used on this setup very shortly ;D



Finally got the axle installed and was able to put my wideband on to get some street tuning. I compared with the stock p13 ecu and my uberdata tune. Little on the lean side on WOT and a little rich at cruise, but was fixed later on.

Now the big question, is it fast? does it haul *****? eh, I wouldnt say it's that fast. It's still in break in period so I'm not really raping the **** out of it, but I can already tell its not to fast. But thats probably because it has 9.1 pistons, stock 2in exhaust and the butterflies on the IM are open all the time. The "NA" period of this engine isnt going to be to long, its built for boost, so about another 500 miles and we are going to throw together a temporary kit for it, then build a badass one for it later on.

This write up was pretty vauge, later on I will include in the full write up

Big thanks to Josh for the help

Enjoy,

Jeff

 

that shop is fawking huge!!! all you do is performance work?? .. anyway good wirte up and awesome picks!!! and for the guy doin the bitch work .. hey ya gotta start somewhere

 

awesome write up bro

sweet hatch, sweet hatch

 

Great work! Kudos to having a girlfriendthat gives a damn about cars.

 

what a nice gf, i think you are talking about boba tea

 

Props on the write up and props for you and your girlfriend. Whose shop was that?

 

Ahhh....Rockstar. That's my late night snack of choice. Or Red Bull (with Jagermeister of course )

Anyway, nice swap and pretty good write-up for being vague. Good luck with your (oops, sorry, your lady's) new rocket

 

awesome car....keep us posted

 

nice car man.. have fun with it

 

After reading this and the twin turbo REX, I seriously have to say you are the ******* MAN! Wish I was doing what you do as my day job.

 

VERY NICE

 

Nice shop, nice car.

I always thought you were a cross dressing black guy....

 

nice work

 

Lucky fart you are. Where can we find gf's like yours who isn't afraid to get her hands little greased up?


Nice project. You should thank your girlie for the help. Take out to dunkin donut for more of those milkshake.

 

yep, sounds like BoBa...lol

 

Damn nice set up. I was thinking of doing the same thing in my coupe...hmmm...a little more motivation. Thanks! PLEASE do the complete write up!


-Chris

 

nice kaa.

 

A+ on the girlfriend for not just liking cars, but Honda's

A++ For the car and the motor. Nice Job on that part

A+++ On the shop. Damn thats huge and you say the next one is newer and bigger!?!?!

Ohh and I think you did very well on the write-up

 

Big up's for the H22 write up KID.

 

Wow, havent been called kid in awhile.. I'm 24


I'm a technican at a local Nissan Dealership, I just do this kinda stuff on the side. We are moving to a brand new dealership, should be nice.

Thanks for the comments guys, the car should be getting its first taste for boost very soon, we got a few miles on it already. Goal is a 400whp street car, and its definatly going to be a sleeper, the IC will be black, and stock exhaust will remain with a 3in electric cutout

Jeff

 

what shop is that? looks like a huge bay! nice to get teh girlie to help! Good write up to

 

girl... drewls....

 

man sweet H22 and boost.

 

wish my h22 was running i ******* hate H series trannys

 

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I know her.. I use to go to high school with her.