Some background:
I’ll get some pics when we aren’t working on it at night. My buddy’s car. While he was looking for a civic a while back, he found a rough-but-rust-free 96 integra GS sedan. High mileage, semi tired B18B, automatic transmission, but very clean interior. Needed a front bumper, a fender, and had a dent in the driver’s front door that had been poorly filled. Car was purchased for $400, he replaced the tie rods, drove it around a little bit while working on it until he hurt his back.
Scored a fender, door, and some other shit off someone on nisky lot.
Because high mileage auto trans honda powertrains are somewhat questionable, as well as boring, that brings us to the stupid part of this project. Because you apparently can’t get B-series shit for any sane amount of money, and the fact he has a nice collection of D-series parts kicking around from his last few cars (an engine or two, manual trans, linkages, axles, mounts, etc), we’re going to drop a D-series into the car with manual trans, and its going to cost significantly less than doing ANYTHING with the B-series.
It will probably end up faster than the auto B-series was, for what its worth.
Last night we got most of the harness unhooked, and we got the fluids drained out of it. Next time its dropping the axles out of it, pulling hoses, and possibly yanking the motor.
Fortunately integra and civic engine bays are basically the same (based on the fact that you only need to swap the T-bracket mount when going from D>>B. We’re just doing the opposite.
TL;DR, D15 powered, manual swapped integra, for almost free. Haters gonna hate.
