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Shopping around for a ****box for my daughter as a starter car.


How do you go through all the trouble and time and work to pull a motor and put in another one....only to later discover you put the wrong ****ing engine in the car???

I've never heard of this. In case you're having a bad day, this will make you feel better:

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Yota Up said:
How do you go through all the trouble and time and work to pull a motor and put in another one....only to later discover you put the wrong ****ing engine in the car???
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long story short this motor is from a 2012-2015 Honda civic they are almost identical but some things change
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Considering all the people over the years asking stupid "will it fit" questions about using parts from different makes, models, generations, and years and such, I can definitely see that happening to someone who isn't paying attention.

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Yota Up said:
Shopping around for a ****box for my daughter as a starter car.


How do you go through all the trouble and time and work to pull a motor and put in another one....only to later discover you put the wrong ****ing engine in the car???

I've never heard of this. In case you're having a bad day, this will make you feel better:

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I have heard of it. Often it is just an emissions problem, the car runs fine but doesn't have an egr port or wiring for the 9th California O2 sensor so the engine light is on or is fails emissions some other waynnn
 
DMG said:
I have heard of it. Often it is just an emissions problem, the car runs fine but doesn't have an egr port or wiring for the 9th California O2 sensor so the engine light is on or is fails emissions some other waynnn
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Ouch.
A painful lesson to realize the motor needs to be pulled and replaced again. Doesn't sound like something that can be fixed with current engine in the car.
Better to spend 1 hour on internet making sure before a timely mistake like that.
 
filthy_midget said:
I went through all the pics,
quick change, set up for a big block chevy, what i assume is a brake bias valve right by the drivers seat.
I think someone was trying to road race/auto cross it..... with some very home brew body work.
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There is some hacktastic fab going on there. It has a square tube front clip that looks like it came from a circle track car and has front chassis bars going into the cowl area. If you look in the car there are no A pillar bars, no dash bar and it only has a roll bar, not cage. That thing is a death trap with some race car parts bolted to it to look the part at car shows. Hence the ****tarded body work... :barf:
 
Yota Up said:
Shopping around for a ****box for my daughter as a starter car.


How do you go through all the trouble and time and work to pull a motor and put in another one....only to later discover you put the wrong ****ing engine in the car???

I've never heard of this. In case you're having a bad day, this will make you feel better:

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I once slammed a junkyard engine into a 02ish Ford escort zx2, decent little twin cam 5 speed car.
Crank, no start.
No explanation.
Joined a forum and asked.
Guy laughed "I know what you did"

The crankshaft position sensor is identical, but an auto car comes with the sensor angled different to catch the trigger in a different spot depending if it's a manual flywheel or an auto flex plate, there's a little slug that bolts in the block that the sensor rides in, different slug depending if auto or manual. No big deal. Except you've gotta pull that mother ****er back out to change it :laughing: :laughing:
 
I saw a video from a subaru tech one time diagnosing low power on something, i think it was a forester. It was originally a 2.5 car and the customer had bought it from another dealer. Anyway he got to looking and found from the block stampings that dealer had at some point put a 2.0 in it from a base impreza. He was amazed that it didnt have any check engine lights but he said it is in fact down on power.... Because its missing half a liter of displacement. :laughing:
 
Mikenike said:
I saw a video from a subaru tech one time diagnosing low power on something, i think it was a forester. It was originally a 2.5 car and the customer had bought it from another dealer. Anyway he got to looking and found from the block stampings that dealer had at some point put a 2.0 in it from a base impreza. He was amazed that it didnt have any check engine lights but he said it is in fact down on power.... Because its missing half a liter of displacement. :laughing:
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Saw that one too.

PJ, id have burnt that car to the ground. :homer:
 
Penetrode Offroad said:
Saw that one too.

PJ, id have burnt that car to the ground. :homer:
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Eh, my tools were still out.

2 weeks later I bought another zx2 with an engine that sounded like a coffee can full of marbles, and another junkyard engine. My tools were still out. I walk out on 4th of July morning ready to make an 8 your day of it. Angel on my shoulder tells me to diag the car, devil on other shoulder tells me just slam the ****in thing in. This goes on for a few minutes, till I commit to 10 minutes of diag. Pull the plastic back on the timing belt and see it's loose. More internal fighting about its ****ed, no, it's non interference, it's loose because the idler broke off "that's a special order bolt" well, the core from the other one had the bolt...

"The bolt is seized " nope, backed out with a pick...
Swapped the bolt, set the timing marks, had the ****er purring at 8am. Went inside and kicked my feet up :grinpimp:
 
Yota Up said:
Ouch.
A painful lesson to realize the motor needs to be pulled and replaced again. Doesn't sound like something that can be fixed with current engine in the car.
Better to spend 1 hour on internet making sure before a timely mistake like that.
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Hispanic shop I worked at, I think it was a 2005 or so Dodge 1500 with a bad 4.7 they changed the crank trigger wheel somewhere along the way from 16 to 54 teeth. First cheapest engine was not the same. wouldn’t start pulled the engine back out, Stuck another one in.
 
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