day 1 of swap
Well...today we finally did it. We prepped the motor and took it out to my dads house, and dropped my b16a2 into my 93 civic ex. Everything went incredibly smooth for my first swap. We had all the hoses(almost), and wires to line up, and had enough screws and bolts for everything. Even had some extras we don't know where they came from. Anywho, after about 6 hours, we got it to start up. It got a check engine light, but we expected that. The weird part was it was idling like up to 2k then back to 1k. We fiogured it was the temperature making it do that. It was extremely hot for being on idling for 10 minutes. We took out the thermostat, because the coolant in the radiator wasn't going anywhere...or seemed so. So we took out the thermostat, and it idled fine for about 4 minutes, but then started up with the high reving again. We assumed we fixed it, but it was still idling funny beacuse of the exhaust 02 sensor. So, all the remaining parts I need to buy are:
Valve Cover gasket(settled wrong, and gears ate it)
Donut Gasket for exhaust (ran off header today)
hydarulic clutch hose
02 sensor for exhaust
new thermostat
For that being the only things I still need, in my opinion it went very well. Just some small things to take care of, and I got my swap!