Civic EG

anyone ever put a d17 block into an EG and put a z6 or a y8 head on it?
im thinking of doing it.
the d17 has 9.6:1 compression stock so i figured it would be a little bit more low end torque.
anyone ever heard of anyone doing this or done it?

for some reason I don't think it will work, but never tried.

moving to D Series for better response

I am almost positive this engine is exactly like the DOHC ZC in that you can only use D17 parts on a D17 motor i do beleive there is a difference in the way the head bolts are arranged or something with coolant and oil passages but with all my studies I have not come across anyone trying to do this and i have come across ppl saying no it cannot be done.

Classiccarsrule85 wrote:I am almost positive this engine is exactly like the DOHC ZC in that you can only use D17 parts on a D17 motor i do beleive there is a difference in the way the head bolts are arranged or something with coolant and oil passages but with all my studies I have not come across anyone trying to do this and i have come across ppl saying no it cannot be done.

^^ur absolutely right...

95excoupeee wrote:anyone ever put a d17 block into an EG and put a z6 or a y8 head on it?
im thinking of doing it.
the d17 has 9.6:1 compression stock so i figured it would be a little bit more low end torque.
anyone ever heard of anyone doing this or done it?

u can stroke a d16 with d17 internals tho.

You cannot put a z6 head on a d17. You can how ever put the d17a crank and rods into a D16 block.

alright thanks i was just wondering.
i figured something would be different and it not bolt up or something.
thanks everyone!

The stroker project sounds interesting...

teal_dx wrote:The stroker project sounds interesting...

Honda Tuning magazine did it - 'Stroke Your D With Junkyard Parts' was a couple months back though.. Was an interesting build, and it made some really nice numbers... seems to me it made 170+ NA horses. The project was for a guy who was into racing. the deal was you could run a civic with a b swap and change nothing, or run a d, take 500 lbs out of your car, and be able to tweek the engine to any length using stock d series internals and bolt ons... some guy in SoCal picked up a junked d17 and went to town. from what i remember he was competitive and it was super reliable too, even under race conditions, which was all that it was used as..

neat nonetheless..

Correct me if I'm wrong but the engine mounts on the D17 block are like the K series and so they aren't a direct drop in for an EG chassis.

My g/f has a 01 EX. What a great engine! D16Y8-like power, D16Y5-like economy. Going 80mph to Vegas we got 39mpg! And that was with the car loaded down, driver and 3 passengers + luggage.

Also it's COP so you don't have those persistent distributor/ignitor/coil problems that plague all the earlier Honda/Acura engines. The coils aren't the strongest in the world... but they work just fine on a stock motor.