My "Mini-Me" Swap *pics*

[XpL0d3r]

Time to swap out the LX head and in with the EX. Vtec y0.

Pics:

Starting out...

Sady taking off the manifold

Valve cover off...

No head, took out cruise too...

Sady standing in HIS honda lol. It's so... empty. I'm even excited for his B swapp

New VTEC head (well not new, but new to me)

Scraping off the new z6 (happy AngelMR?) manifold gasket

Manifold on, nice EBP valve cover too

Done

My GHETTO-rigged throttle cable.. didn't have a bracket so I used the strut lol

ECU Wiring

Overall it was a success. Took pretty much two days to do, because we ran into some problems with timing. Unfortunately, the (new) head I put on is not so new, and needs valve adjustments. I have absolutely NO low end power. I can barely get the car going in 1st gear lol. But up around 4k RPMs or so it's nice. And VTEC does work, so once i get this valve problem adjusted (and a new bracket for my ghetto rigged throttle cable) I should be gooood. and BIG Help to Sady... definitely knows his stuff (EJ6Civic27 on here).. thanks man

 

[Szady]

Haha. Wow.....what a damn project this was. You forgot the pics of my lonely Civic.

 

[Genuine Rolla]

Looks like it was a great time..! Glad to hear that it was a success. Looking at the final pic of your engine bay, reminded me of shady's when he still had his D in.

 

[XpL0d3r]

haha I added a few of those pictures in, and thanks Petey... and that's what we said too about looking like his lol

 

[DarkCreep]

Niccce!!! Did you notice more power in the high end?? Get that timing fixed so your car can be fun to drive.

The head looks pretty dirty though. My car has 160000 and under the VC, its shinier than that.

 

[EK|B]

Good work.

 

[XpL0d3r]

Niccce!!! Did you notice more power in the high end?? Get that timing fixed so your car can be fun to drive.

The head looks pretty dirty though. My car has 160000 and under the VC, its shinier than that.

sure did haha. And yeah it was left out for a while and a lot of oil dried on it. Plus it looked like it had some rust, but should burn off. There was about 116k on this new head I think...

 

[XpL0d3r]

I actually think it's the cracked exhaust manifold thats giving me no power. 2" long crack right up to the primary o2 sensor, and I THINK thats why I'm getting a code for a heated o2 sensor.. replacing with header today.. we'll see how it goes

 

[AngelMR]

thats not a y8 manifold, which u should change that manifold to a y8

 

[Genuine Rolla]

I had that same crack bro and it didn't cause me any problems. I'm thinking that you're going to need a new o2 sensor.

 

[Szady]

thats not a y8 manifold, which u should change that manifold to a y8

Its actually a z6 manifold. And its 100x better than a y8 manifold. Plus, z6 manifolds look 1000x better anyways.

 

[somejaykid]

nice man

 

[XpL0d3r]

whatever. turns out it wasnt even the manifold.. just a bad o2 sensor...

replaced it... and fixed a vacuum leak... works like a charm

all fixed. PLUS since I had that crack in the manifold I replaced it with an aftermarket header.. woot.

btw, I edited my original post to make AngelMR happy. You're welcome.

 

[marc111]

good work man!!!

 

[eskateboarding7]

The valve cover of my Civic looked exactly like that! lol. I've never seen one that same color. Metallic Rustoleum?!

 

[XpL0d3r]

The valve cover of my Civic looked exactly like that! lol. I've never seen one that same color. Metallic Rustoleum?!

painted from Jeff on here.. I forgot his name.. the valve cover painting guy lol. He did an awesome job on it too.

 

[stupidguy10]

looks good man.....hopefully its a lot more fun to drive

 

[DarkCreep]

whatever. turns out it wasnt even the manifold.. just a bad o2 sensor...

replaced it... and fixed a vacuum leak... works like a charm

all fixed. PLUS since I had that crack in the manifold I replaced it with an aftermarket header.. woot.

btw, I edited my original post to make AngelMR happy. You're welcome.

I was about to say... Because my manifold was also cracked but it had nothing to do with the power.

So all it was, was a vacuum leak? Sweet bro. Happy you gave the sedan some pep. Change the oil frequently though, thats a dirty head lol.

 

[AngelMR]

nice men good thing u fix it

 

[XpL0d3r]

I was about to say... Because my manifold was also cracked but it had nothing to do with the power.

So all it was, was a vacuum leak? Sweet bro. Happy you gave the sedan some pep. Change the oil frequently though, thats a dirty head lol.

Nah we just found the vacuum leak when we were looking at it. The problem was just the o2 sensor haha. I had a code for it, but I figured it was because the manifold was cracked right up to it. Whatever lol