Mini-me swap questions!

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:07 pm

I have a stupid question about the mini-me swap. I've been reading this walk through of it from Honda-Tech and I'm confused on one thing.

The walk throughs I've seen reference a D15B7 with a D16Z6/Y8 head. Is the D15B7 the only D15 block I can use, or could I mate the head to my D15B2 (Civic/CRX DX engine)? I have a D15B2 in my CRX and a bare D15B2 block sitting in my house and wanted to use it, but just wanted to make sure ALL D15B blocks would work before proceeding to spend monies.

Post by **stolle** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:11 pm

you can use any d-block

JustRob · Post by **JustRob** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:35 pm

stolle;238625 wrote:you can use any d-block

Yep. Any SOHC D-Series block so long as the pistons have provisions for all 16 valves.

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:39 pm

Cool! That's good news. Thanks gentlemen.

Post by **stolle** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:53 pm

JustRob;238628 wrote:Yep. Any SOHC D-Series block so long as the pistons have provisions for all 16 valves.

not necessarily, i have removed rockers from an a6 head in order to use it on a d15b6 (HF motor) i modified the a6's valve train with parts from the b6's, ran it off an pm6 ecu, the engine was in boner's crx we called it the hf/si, lol. it ran awesome, was one of those things we did just to do, i wouldnt recommend doing it something you wanted to last

you are correct though 16 valve block 16 valve head, should have mentioned that.

JustRob · Post by **JustRob** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:55 pm

stolle;238631 wrote:not necessarily, i have removed rockers from an a6 head in order to use it on a d15b6 (HF motor) i modified the a6's valve train with parts from the b6's, ran it off an pm6 ecu, the engine was in boner's crx we called it the hf/si, lol. it ran awesome, was one of those things we did just to do, i wouldnt recommend doing it something you wanted to last

you are correct though 16 valve block 16 valve head, should have mentioned that.

I know. I thought of that motor while I posted that and laughed. Then realized that no one should ever do that so I just left it out hoping no one would get the idea. :rocklicker:

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:02 pm

I'm not trying anything like that, just a simple rebuild and learn process. Trying to stay as cheap as possible.

Post by **stolle** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:09 pm

JustRob;238633 wrote:I know. I thought of that motor while I posted that and laughed. Then realized that no one should ever do that so I just left it out hoping no one would get the idea. :rocklicker:

haha, wish i had pics from when i did it.

edison, i would be working more on getting parts in order to do an mpfi conversion before i even considered doing a head swap.

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:53 pm

Stolle - I'm not doing the head swap on the engine in the car, was gonna build the bare block in the house and since I need a head for it, figured I'd just get the VTEC head and build the mini-me engine outside of the car and save it for when the one in the car goes kablooey.

Do you still think I should do the MPFI swap on the engine in the car first?