Civic-EG.com Forum 3.3.1

- Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:39 pm #90217 Hi I just bought my first eg civic esi you wont belive the price, £75 lol just the normal civic rust but thats all thats roung with it lol, anyway I was woundering if there was any1 on here that knows of a garage near west yorkshire that does b16 engine swaps and if any1 had an idea what they cost roughly, thanks, will try put sum pics up 4 u all 2 have a laugh

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:44 am #90238 dont know anyone off the top of my head up that way but i will have a quick look for ya and let you know.

with regards to prices... usually they will be as follows:

engine, box, ecu, etc, etc (everything needed for swap) = £600 ish
average labour charge from most garages to do the swap = £1000


to be honest, to put a B16a2 into an Esi is pretty simple... basic mechanical knowledge is needed and lots of time (not for the swap but to read up on how to do the swap)

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:28 am #90297

to be honest, to put a B16a2 into an Esi is pretty simple...

Amen, as VTEC is already wired in. Try googling for garages local to you, I'm sure there are some in Yorkshire which specialise in Jap work.

Fuck the B16a, get the B16b.

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:29 am #90299 meh... fuck the b16b... b18c YAAAAAAA

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:31 am #90306 Fuck the B18, get a NSX.

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:32 am #90308 LMAO... yeh. fuck the £75 Esi you bought... just buy a 15k honda NSX

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:37 am #90321

average labour charge from most garages to do the swap = £1000

? No no, I got some quotes from Hond-R and garage786 to convert my EG3 which is much more work and 786 quoted 900 for two weeks work... Hond-R said they'd do it cheaper but we never got round to discussing a price as I gave up lol

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:40 am #90327 i did say average... hond-r and garage786 can both do this swap in a day (if they wanted to) so the can afford to charge less because it wont take them as long as a lesser expirenced garage to do it.

£900 - £1000

not a massive difference really.

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:42 am #90333 But for two weeks work.... cheap

As I said Hond-R never gave me a proper quote cos I gave up on the idea but I should imagine it would've been in the region of 750-800 and the EG3 swap is a LOT more work than in an ESi.

They'd probably do it for an ESi way cheaper than that even as they don't have to drop the fuel tank and replace the fuel lines etc

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:42 am #90334 By the time that poor cunt has driven there and back it proberly would be over a grand.

- Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:46 am #90338

By the time that poor cunt has driven there and back it proberly would be over a grand.

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:52 am #91073 well thanks for your help guys I bought the engine kit from agarage near me an he suplied most the stuff I need payed 550 for serviced vti engine etc would have gone for the b18 but 2 b honest wanted to keep the car as light as possible and I like the b16 every1 goes for the bigger b18 lol

- Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:55 pm #91290 ok got my first quat 2day of 700 for it fitting and he says he can turn it round in a couple of days? so alls well, thanks for the help guys

- Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:42 pm #105743 you did the swap from an eg esi..congrats.. and apparently that was pretty simple.. just wondering if it would be just as easy to swap a B16A from a civic EG vei (VTEC-E)??? and wots the difference between the B16A1, B16A2 and B16A3???? and which is the best and why??? thanks for the advice.

- Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:14 pm #108364 bump...
anyone??? could anyone give me the heads up? cheers