blew my motor today
 

well one day a few months ago, my oil ran a little lower than i realized and ever since then my motor has been clicking during acceleration. today i was accelerating on the interstate to pass a car (doing 5k rpm in 3rd.... around 80 mph) and i heard a bad noise. I looked in my rearview and saw smoke pouring from behind my car. my motor shut off and i stopped and looked under the hood and oil was covering everything. good news is i found an ex motor with only 60k miles (mine had 119k )and a brand new clutch for $600 15 minutes after it happened. btw, does anyone know if 7th gen ex trans' differ from lx trans'? so yeah, i've had a bad day.... haha.

RE: blew my motor today
 

dont know if the gearing is different in the transmission but other than that I'd bet nothing else is different

RE: blew my motor today
 

well, it has vtec and mine doesn't so the motor itself is an upgrade. its not like i'm upgrading to a k20, but i'm trying to sell the car anyway, so i'm not trying to put that much money into it and i don't have that kind of money lying around at the moment anyway.

RE: blew my motor today
 

wow that sucks...sounds likea good time do go a motor swap, why dont u just keep it an build a motor or boost it??

RE: blew my motor today
 

You spun a bearing and threw the rod through the block.

You're going to need a VTEC ECU and wire VTEC into the wiring harness in order to use that EX engine...

RE: blew my motor today
 

yeah, i'm getting the ecu and everything... i'm considering keeping it, since someone hit me and has to give me $2400 for the damage. that will leave my payoff at around $500. i really doubt i will keep it though, i'm probably going to put the $2400 in savings until i sell my car. i found a 99 hatch with a b20 motor and ls trans for $3k, the motor has 40k miles and the trans needs 3rd gear synchros, so i will probably just get that after i sell my car. since my g/f bought me a turbo for my bday last year, i do have a garrett t3 waiting on my next car.

RE: blew my motor today
 

7th gen boost, big troubles on the way.....

anyway, that sucks you blew it, but good luck with the swap!

RE: blew my motor today
 

yeah too much work with returnless fuel line and plastic intake manny... i'll just wait on my ek hatch or eg coupe... depending on which i decide to get.

RE: blew my motor today
 

Its not usually as fun to buy a project car from someone else, you never know how badly they treated it.

RE: blew my motor today
 

the motor and tranny aren't even in the car. this guy is a friend of mine and has tons of honda parts lying around. i just sold him a honda shell to fix and sell. he asked me what i was looking for when he saw my car was for sell. i told him i wanted an ek hatch and how much i wanted to spend and he told me he'd put that motor and tranny in it and sell it to me for that much. with so little mileage on the parts, i doubt it could be in that bad of shape.