Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

I'd rather take my time and risk sounding like a ----- than go in foolhardy and screw my engine to hell. Slappping a head on isn't cake for everyone on this forum.

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

Well, get a nice big fork and munch away @ that cake :)

No, Just joking. I don't see what could go wrong if you take your time at it. I have to be a little more patient than most people on this forum because I don't have a good place to work... I got the tools, just hard to work in the dirt or most of the time in the dark. Get everything together (head gasket, timing belt) and pick a real nice day to do it. When it comes time to start it up, and it runs rough, start working on that timing.

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

I have found that you should always double your time estimate and tripple your budget for every auto related project and you will be closer to what it will realy take to get it done!

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

Bottom line is just to do it or not. PERIOD. dont be like...this is this, and that is that....its just a little swap. like i said...DONT believe everything you read. it may or has work for them but it may Not work for you. they spend countless hours on just controlling the air flow throught the manifold..as you spend minutes just looking at your gay motor. theres always a risk of BLOWING up. always. ask everyone. you just have to risk it if you want to speed your car up. like the old hot rod guys use to say, "you ain't racing till you start breaking things!" and thats very true to a point. theres already too much time wasted on this already. good luck on your maybe never to happen cause your scared, swap.

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

start on friday, if u screw it up then get a friend to drive u to school unntil u fix it :) My CRX is my daily driver aswell, during the summer anyways. Not having tools lying around and extra engines makes myself, and you a little more hesitant to modify the car. So I know what you mean by careful. You could just wait 2 months for school do be done if u dont have a full time job and do it then. Im just like you, very picky about what goes on my car, I must have researched wheels for a month b4 I ended up buying. Still researching tires ;-) But seeing how people have done this mod b4 and worked w/o problems, I would go for it during a weekend when u can live without your car for a couple of days. good luck.

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

I am in college, and I live on a small campus and I have no off-campus jobs..... soooooo, if I really had to I could go for a month without my car. It's just a perk for me to drive it every now and then. I don't have a garage to access, but we do have nice parking lots with street lamps and a level surface! ;D

Re:any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

Well man what can i say, it took us like 3 hours to do mine right and we had the car running right after with an msd switch. My distributer lookis kinda ghetto but i dont care, trust me im an 18 year old high school kid, if i could do it anyone can. and about timing and ecu modding well ur gonna have to ---- with the timing be4 even srarting it, atleast set it and its kinda a little bitch but give it a couple of tries with a real timing light and yer set. The ecu eprom well, im still tuing mine so thats just a quest for more power.

just do it and get it over with, fyi if you havent gotten yer head yet go with the y8 and you dont gotta ---- with the distributer and a frend did this swap with a a D15B7 and it was a piece of cake. just make sure you port your intake, its even smaller than the d16's whole thing cost me less than $400 with new head studs (ebay) and my ecu eprom and an rs232 convertor

hope that was helpful

Re: any Mini-Mi swaps here WITHOUT a turbo?
 

hahah....I just wanted to bring an old trend back. I wonder if he ever did it....hahahahha. ;D