getting a new old car,need help

ok guys i'm a mazda guy but i came across a 99 civic thats fully baged but needs a motor,im getting the car(exwife dont know and wont know),so here the part i need help with, what motors will bolt right in, i know it had a b16y8 in it and of course that is what will bolt back in it but is there anything else that will bolt in also using the same ecu so i can widein my search for a motor!
i need it to be runing soon so it needs to be an ez job too, not down for a long time
any help will be ...... well helpful..lol

Actually you had a D16y8 1.6 litre vetec motor. With that ECU thats about it. But you can fit a
B16,B18,B20, B series is dual overhead cam, D16, D15 D series singel overhead cam. It just takes a wireing change or ecu change not to hard on a honda.If i were you just get another D16y8 they can be had for around 500 or so with less than 60k on them. Just thought this would help.

thanks, ya im looking to put something in it just to get it running and then go from there, it was the base model you sure it had a vtec motor in it, i thought all base models had non's

Honda. . .

. . . yawn. . .

no offense. . .

Do you live in a state that doesn't expect or test for EPA emission compliance?

My opinion, as a technician, is the easiest, cheapest, way to get your new old car mobile again is to dump the same rubber band in it that it came with from the factory.

Maybe Honda's came with squirrels that year. . .if that is the case. . .

hamsters are really hard to fit into the same cage.

pretty much any motor will bolt in, d series all b series all z series, h series, k series(will need mor extensive work)

v tec and iVTEC are the different engines now
more recently the honda engines pretty well all use variable timing tech to be more efficient.

right,i know theres a lot of motors out there that will work...if i do the work to put them in, what im asking is like our trucks there is more then one motor..i.e. a 2.0 and a 2.2 that can run off the same ecu and harness,maybe even the 1.8(not to sure on that one) so what im asking is what motors will go in an i dont have to do anything but bolt the fucker in,it had a 1.6 yes, vtec or nonvtec i dont give a shit, but will any thing else out of something else just go right in, im not asking about a tuner swap, its not going to go fast ,its going to drag down the highway... ....ok let me put it this way what will it take to put the motor out of a si in it, if its not the si model,or tell me what it takes to put said motor in the car and i will try to find out what one i like more!....but remember i dont have the car yet so i dont know what model it is...he said its the base model but i want to be sure befor buying a motor,so im trying to find out what it takes for the different motors out there


its a honda....more like a feret in a hamster ball...lol

okay , but an SI will be a vtec and the ECM is different, the best/ easiest thing to do would be find a wrecked one same body style, and take everything, for in depth info check out the ricer forums and search the engine swap articles, I have found some good info that way before, sorry kinda the wrong tree to bark up round here it would seem, lol

What I got from it was make damn sure ya get a non hacked wiring harness, and the ECM, and try to find one with few miles as possible, something gramma smashed not some ricers hacked leftover turd.

Best o luck I think draggin a civic would be fun!!

I wont ever talk shit bout Hondas they bin good to me, my buddys got the only S2000 in town and its awesome smokin the tires slidin sideways, in my books thats cool.

thanks- i kinda figed the ecm's would be, but didnt know if the harness would be or not,..... ya im looking for a "non kid shit on" motor somthing thats been hit in the back,.. and ya i like the civics had one tryed the tuner thing but never get to far into it sold it for the truck, now im going to put a minitruckers know how in to a civic and see what turns out...just need the motor

yeh I think minitruckers are the most talented and gutsy hot rodders out there, its ok to try other things so long as we're keepin it real.
Never leaving the scene totally even if we lose our trucks somehow