B18c
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what kind of b18c? c1? c5? or is that a j-spek motor? well you're gonna need a harness, uh a tranny, a clutch, an ecu i think hah, and ermmm, ermm, a linkage.... if you need help on that, you might wanna add to the post about a setup route to go...
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Originally Posted by md1212lz
I got a question for all you people out there...I want a B18C motor for my 97 honda civic LX and im wondering what all im going to need to buy to get it put in
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From: Indiana
Here's my experience w/ a 93 EX and 94 B18C:
Maintenance (you don't really know how old the parts are, so while you have the motor out, etc)
1. New Plugs
2. New Cap & Rotor (need to be installed once the engine can start as you need to cycle the rotor)
3. New Belts (except for timing belt)
4. New Radiator Fluid
5. Have some brake fluid ready as you will need to bleed the clutch slave cylinder
6. New bitch pin and snap cover
7. New cotter pins for the castle nut
8. New spindle nuts to replace the ones taken out.
9. Power steering fluid in case your new engine is low on it.
Tools:
There's a lot, but give you a run down of some things that I had to buy.
1. Punchs to get the bitch pin out. I also went and got an air hammer. Air hammer works great!!!!!
2. Chisel to get the 32mm spindle nut dent out.
3. 32mm impact socket. I used an impact wrench to get the 32mm spindle nuts out. I can imagine that you will have a very difficult time w/o an impact wrench.
4. Ball Joint separators
5. Should have a solder gun, solder, flux, heat shrink tubing for the lengthening the sensors
6. Wire loom protectors to cover the extension of O2 sensor and Knock Sensor
7. Flared metric wrenches to loosen the clutch cylinder hoses
8. Safety pin to remove the pins on the ECU connector blocks
9. Set of metric sockets and wrenches
10. Snap ring pliers
11. Helms manual for both car and engine
Other things I ran into:
1. Check the condition of your engine mounts. I had to replace the lower left and right mounts. While you have the engine out, if you want to put an ES bushing in the mounts, now is the time to do it.
2. My catalytic converter was too small (wouldn't fit the donut a.k.a. exhaust gasket), so ended up getting a cat to fit a JDM Header from Landspeed Racing. However, ended up that the donut was now too small for that. So I bought a DC JDM ITR Header along w/ the S2000 exhaust gasket. I also bought the gasket on engine side. With the 94 engine, I did not have to have 2 O2 sensors, so I had to buy a drain plug to cap that on the catalytic converter (NAPA P/N: 704-1037). To hold the cat to the header, need to get 2, 8mm bolts of 80mm in lenght w/ 2 washers per bolt and of course the nut for each bolt.
3. ES Shifter bushing while I had the shifter assembly out.
4. WD-40
5. Black paint as I took the battery tray out and cleaned out all that junk. Wire brush and wire wheeled old paint off, and repainted.
6. Need to get some pins for ECU (go to junkyard). I also have the AMP Part numbers for the pins, but you will need to crimp them so, it is easier to go to a junk yard or search via http://www.car-part.com
7. New clamps for the radiator hoses (ones that can be adjusted)
8. New fuel return hose (just get a section from NAPA or Autozone as the civic one is too short and the engine should come w/ a cut return line
9. New lower heater hose (Acura). I made up a connection for this one, but don’t suggest this for others.
10. You’ll have to extend the IAB and O2 sensor (I think there a couple more, but those are the ones that come to mind.
11. Had to remove AC refrigerant to get the AC compressor off (I’ve heard people not having to do this, but I’m not smart enough to figure out how).
Updated 8/27/04
Maintenance (you don't really know how old the parts are, so while you have the motor out, etc)
1. New Plugs
2. New Cap & Rotor (need to be installed once the engine can start as you need to cycle the rotor)
3. New Belts (except for timing belt)
4. New Radiator Fluid
5. Have some brake fluid ready as you will need to bleed the clutch slave cylinder
6. New bitch pin and snap cover
7. New cotter pins for the castle nut
8. New spindle nuts to replace the ones taken out.
9. Power steering fluid in case your new engine is low on it.
Tools:
There's a lot, but give you a run down of some things that I had to buy.
1. Punchs to get the bitch pin out. I also went and got an air hammer. Air hammer works great!!!!!
2. Chisel to get the 32mm spindle nut dent out.
3. 32mm impact socket. I used an impact wrench to get the 32mm spindle nuts out. I can imagine that you will have a very difficult time w/o an impact wrench.
4. Ball Joint separators
5. Should have a solder gun, solder, flux, heat shrink tubing for the lengthening the sensors
6. Wire loom protectors to cover the extension of O2 sensor and Knock Sensor
7. Flared metric wrenches to loosen the clutch cylinder hoses
8. Safety pin to remove the pins on the ECU connector blocks
9. Set of metric sockets and wrenches
10. Snap ring pliers
11. Helms manual for both car and engine
Other things I ran into:
1. Check the condition of your engine mounts. I had to replace the lower left and right mounts. While you have the engine out, if you want to put an ES bushing in the mounts, now is the time to do it.
2. My catalytic converter was too small (wouldn't fit the donut a.k.a. exhaust gasket), so ended up getting a cat to fit a JDM Header from Landspeed Racing. However, ended up that the donut was now too small for that. So I bought a DC JDM ITR Header along w/ the S2000 exhaust gasket. I also bought the gasket on engine side. With the 94 engine, I did not have to have 2 O2 sensors, so I had to buy a drain plug to cap that on the catalytic converter (NAPA P/N: 704-1037). To hold the cat to the header, need to get 2, 8mm bolts of 80mm in lenght w/ 2 washers per bolt and of course the nut for each bolt.
3. ES Shifter bushing while I had the shifter assembly out.
4. WD-40
5. Black paint as I took the battery tray out and cleaned out all that junk. Wire brush and wire wheeled old paint off, and repainted.
6. Need to get some pins for ECU (go to junkyard). I also have the AMP Part numbers for the pins, but you will need to crimp them so, it is easier to go to a junk yard or search via http://www.car-part.com
7. New clamps for the radiator hoses (ones that can be adjusted)
8. New fuel return hose (just get a section from NAPA or Autozone as the civic one is too short and the engine should come w/ a cut return line
9. New lower heater hose (Acura). I made up a connection for this one, but don’t suggest this for others.
10. You’ll have to extend the IAB and O2 sensor (I think there a couple more, but those are the ones that come to mind.
11. Had to remove AC refrigerant to get the AC compressor off (I’ve heard people not having to do this, but I’m not smart enough to figure out how).
Updated 8/27/04