B20A in my car... pretty neeto

[88LXI]

heres a pic of my B20A in my car... installed like 6 hours ago... now i just need a new radiator, stupid split tank..



heres a link for the rest of the pics :super:

heres a link for the rest of the pics

[anchovies]

nice..:super:
so you can try it out tomorrow

[88LXI]

acually ive been driving it around all nite... i just have to watch the coolant

:pimp:

[RCracer]

Lookin Good

[BOLINKXR-89LXI]

:pimp: After xmax it will be done so dont forget to send the timeing belt I cleaned my engine well it should look nice when is in. The valve cover is out beeing striped so it can be polished Ill be there soon I cant wait to get it in and here it run !!!!!!!!:smokin:

[smufguy]

Thats a nice looking swap buddy. got the motor rebuilt or just dropped in? how do u like the drive so far? how do u feel the acceleration and power and handling with a new trans and motor?


car domain is one lousy server. man....... they are friggin slow. cant they upgread their servesr and broaden their bandwith. takes forever to load the page even with a cable mode.

[88LXI]

i pretty much just dropped in... its a little zippier but i think that its running too rich and i need to fix that before it will run correctly.. but for now its better than stock!

:super:

[carotman]

what ECU did you use?

[88LXI]

im running the stock one... but now its throwing me a code... i find out what it is in the mornin

[socal3rdgen]

Originally posted by BOLINKXR-89LXI
:pimp: After xmax it will be done so dont forget to send the timeing belt I cleaned my engine well it should look nice when is in. The valve cover is out beeing striped so it can be polished Ill be there soon I cant wait to get it in and here it run !!!!!!!!:smokin:

call me asap when you get it running i want to hear it.

[Coroncho80]

Originally posted by 88LXI
heres a pic of my B20A in my car... installed like 6 hours ago... now i just need a new radiator, stupid split tank..



heres a link for the rest of the pics :super:

heres a link for the rest of the pics

How much did it cost you to do the whole swap???

[88LXI]

375 engine w/ tranny
100 timing belt and rear trans mount
50 drivers side axle repair
20 integra dist and angle sensor
75 misc engine supplies
and about 15 hours labor

[merlindavis]

Originally posted by 88LXI
375 engine w/ tranny
100 timing belt and rear trans mount
50 drivers side axle repair
20 integra dist and angle sensor
75 misc engine supplies
and about 15 hours labor

WTF!!!! where did you find it for $375 with tranny?!?!?! i paid $650 for my b20a, and i only got a whoppin' 143hp!!! if i can get the engine and tranny for $375, i'm buying myself a 2g lude to put it in... 17 more hp and 400lbs lighter than my 3g b20a powered lude...

[RobT5580]

Nice, I cant wait to get my motor so i can start working on it. I shooting for January but im not really in a rush since my car is parked till spring. Did you have any trouble when you were installing it? meaning wiring etc.

[88LXI]

not really... i had to plumb another sensor into the water jacket and figure out what to do with 2 o2 sensors instead of one.. still working on that.. any ideas, i was thinkin of puting them in the down pipe instead of the manifold... what i really need is a jap header for the thing and a prelude ecu

[carotman]

Your B20A has 2 O2 sensors???? Mine has only one... I'll have to use a B20A5 header to have the 2 O2 sensors to match with my ECU.

[RobT5580]

I was just gonna say i thought JDM motors have only one O2 sensor cause my JDM A20A did. I am planning on using a modified prelude header and use the A20A harness so wiring should stay the same depending on ECU.

[88LXI]

Originally posted by carotman
Your B20A has 2 O2 sensors???? Mine has only one... I'll have to use a B20A5 header to have the 2 O2 sensors to match with my ECU.

well ya see my car is an 88 lxi so it originally came with 2 o2 sensors... so when i put my b20a in, i had to plumb it for both sensors which meant drillin and tapping a hole for the A sensor... and im running stock intake that came with my car... the way i know if its runnin rich or lean is because i have a air fuel guage and i put a hook up on each o2 sensor so i can switch between them and make sure they are working right... the prob that i have is i think that i put the A o2 sensor on the wrong exhaust port and my computer is getttin confused trying to regulate the fuel between them. does any body have a picture of the aftermarket pacesetter or dc header??? that way i can see which holes they hook the o2 sensors to... or someone can just tell me, like green to ex port 1 and white to ex port 3.. for example

[carotman]

Just get a USDM lude manifold... it will solve your problem for dirt cheap (they cost like 30 bucks at the junkyard) and the B20A5 ecu (which I plan to use) uses 2 O2 sensors as well

[88LXI]

see i thought about that too!... but it didnt work out because i used my stock down pipe on the manifold that came with the jdm engine.. . the lude manifold also had smaller exhaust openings at the bottom of the manifold and it was not a direct fit... i would have had to port match it and hog out the two mounting holes on the ends of it

[SiCReX]

why you only get a gay 143 hp???? was yours just a crap motor or is that what they all REALLY are?

[RCracer]

Originally posted by SiCReX
why you only get a gay 143 hp???? was yours just a crap motor or is that what they all REALLY are?

He is talking about his JDM B20a from a 3rd gen prelude not a 2nd gen prelude/3rd gen accord B20a as they all have 160bhp.

[BOLINKXR-89LXI]

You need to buy the lude header from DC and dont forget to grind the wing flames:smokin:

[89accordboi]

man y u complaining about only having 143hp, lol i would give so much for that, im siting here with a car thath as 98hp and would get worked by most cars on the streets, and i probably only get 80-85 at the wheels... gg

[smufguy]

but accordboi, thats only on a non rebuilt 14 year motor. get it rebuilt, up the compression and get a webber, then see who is the king of your neighborhood.