Me and a buddy plan on dooing an engine swap on his civic cause the engine is starting to go and its got over 250k on it. We are looking at stock engines Oh yeah its a 94 civic ex. But wundering if there is anything else that will match up to the same mounts and reusing the ecu if possible. We have 800$ at our disposal. We were looking at zc's just cause they are cheap and easie to work on. He also has an auto so we are probably just wanting to get a complete block with transmission attached. We have been watching ebay for a while but the only problem we have is that we dont know which engines will be interchangeable with his without a lot of effort. I think its a sohc vtec.
from what ive heard, those d15bs are a waste. its hard to get them running right. they have a three stage vtec and i never could find an ecu for it. plus, theyre from cars with a CVT, trans, so i doubt you could get the d15b ecu to work right anyway.
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Yes, there's a "Replacement for Displacement". Its called Volumetric Efficiency.
wel you dont have to get the d15b ecu you can get an ecu from another d-series motor and if you dont wanna get the d15b motor just get the si model the d16a6 and do the same thing to it. it has more compression and its a 1.6 instead of a 1.5.
well yes and no it really depends the condition of the motor i mean if you get a used one yeh the compression of lower but if you rebuilt it i bet it can have the same as the d15b.
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