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I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
all would be appreciated.

BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
> all would be appreciated.

save your money and buy a different car. a 91 civic is a dependable
transportation appliance. it was never meant to outrun an acura nsx.

BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote in
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> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
> all would be appreciated.
>

I saw an article in Honda Tuning Magazine a couple of years ago about a
company that made conversion mounts and hardware for putting modern K
series motors/transaxles into older Honda/Acura products,but unfortunately
I can't remember the company.Maybe you can find them advertising in newer
issues of the mag.It wouldn't hurt to do a little research in the tuner
magazines,either.

Alternately,you could try finding/ordering a JDM B18-series DOHC VTEC motor
to put in.

It seems to me that just modifying your present motor(D-series?) would be
more cost-effective,(turbos,intake/exhaust mods,etc.) although there's no
substitute for cubic inches.(cubic centimeters??? ;-) )

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
> all would be appreciated.
>
how much horsepower? how much money? you have options up the wazoo.
the biggest thing to figure out is how much to spend and your ability
level to do the work - there's a fair amount of re-wiring involved. and
you should upgrade the brakes. and most importantly, why the 4-door???

lots of people use acura engines in those cars. the ecu will have to be
changed and the wiring harness to the fuel injectors and distributor will
have to be changed. it's going to cost $$. i've seen civics that people put
a sohc vtec head on their non vtech stock engine. thats something else you
may be able to do.

-jeff
"jim beam" <nospam@example.net> wrote in message
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> BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
>> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
>> all would be appreciated.
>>
> how much horsepower? how much money? you have options up the wazoo. the
> biggest thing to figure out is how much to spend and your ability level to
> do the work - there's a fair amount of re-wiring involved. and you should
> upgrade the brakes. and most importantly, why the 4-door???

The reason that i want to do it on my 91 civic 4 door is that i haven't
seen it. and i would like to do something that. i haven't seen before.
and i'm willing to spend about $20,000 on the project. i was thinking
about using a s2000 motor but that would be to much work. to convert it
to a rw dr
hondaman wrote:
> lots of people use acura engines in those cars. the ecu will have to be
> changed and the wiring harness to the fuel injectors and distributor will
> have to be changed. it's going to cost $$. i've seen civics that people put
> a sohc vtec head on their non vtech stock engine. thats something else you
> may be able to do.
>
> -jeff
> "jim beam" <nospam@example.net> wrote in message
> news:PsWdnZMoTe3Iji7ZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
> > BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
> >> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
> >> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
> >> all would be appreciated.
> >>
> > how much horsepower? how much money? you have options up the wazoo. the
> > biggest thing to figure out is how much to spend and your ability level to
> > do the work - there's a fair amount of re-wiring involved. and you should
> > upgrade the brakes. and most importantly, why the 4-door???

BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
> The reason that i want to do it on my 91 civic 4 door is that i haven't
> seen it. and i would like to do something that. i haven't seen before.
> and i'm willing to spend about $20,000 on the project. i was thinking
> about using a s2000 motor but that would be to much work. to convert it
> to a rw dr

you want to spend $20k on a conversion of a 91 4-door???? the 90-91
4-door is the heaviest of that class. it makes no sense when you have
the 88-89 hatch and 88-89 crx's that offer you good weight savings and
therefore a superior power/weight ratio. think about that for a moment
- there /is/ a reason you don't see your kind of conversion...

regarding your desire to spend huge amounts of money, you can get the
motor to do something like this:
http://www.theoldone.com/articles/La...rrys_Civic.htm
for ~$6k.

of course, if you still want to spend the $20k, bring the car on over to
my place. i'll be happy to take your money and give you a faster car.
i won't spend the full $20k you give me though. nowhere near.


> hondaman wrote:
>> lots of people use acura engines in those cars. the ecu will have to be
>> changed and the wiring harness to the fuel injectors and distributor will
>> have to be changed. it's going to cost $$. i've seen civics that people put
>> a sohc vtec head on their non vtech stock engine. thats something else you
>> may be able to do.
>>
>> -jeff
>> "jim beam" <nospam@example.net> wrote in message
>> news:PsWdnZMoTe3Iji7ZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
>>> BrineyJason@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> I'm looking to do an engine swap on my 1991 honda civic dx 4door. I'm
>>>> looking for horsepower. is there any sugestions that anyone can make?
>>>> all would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>> how much horsepower? how much money? you have options up the wazoo. the
>>> biggest thing to figure out is how much to spend and your ability level to
>>> do the work - there's a fair amount of re-wiring involved. and you should
>>> upgrade the brakes. and most importantly, why the 4-door???
>