oil control jet for mini-me
 

i have been reading this other www site and the guy said to take out the oil control jet on the stock d16a6 bottom end when u do a mini-me setup. when you remove the jet, it is supposed to make it so that vtec engages more reliably. with the oil control jet in place, the oil pressure is too high and makes the vtec engage whenever. has anyone ever done this, or know if this is true?

here is a link:
[url][http://crx.honda-perf.org/articles/z...swap.html/url]

-matt

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

You need to take it out.. A VTEC Head has its own oil control jet in the head.. If you dont Oil press. will be high and VTEC may not work..

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

not only do you have to remove the jet, but you have to plug that hole left over with a plug!

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

uhm, what the heck are you talking about?

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

i never heard of that one now. thanks, for the help, i am going to swap in a vtec head next week

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

D-series you just remove the oil oriface jet off the deck and thats it, vtec solinoid does the rest.


B-series doesnt even have that oil control jet, you just plug one of the oil feeds in the head with a 1/8npt plug or weld it up.


Jeff

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

yah thats what i was thinking. remove the oil jet out of the LS block and plug it. jet orfice whatever.
damn it there alot of ls/vtec/minime crap goin around right now i got myself all confused.

Jeff, on your LSvtec you made 175 NA right? I'm guessing no1 will see that unless they use the TB, IN mani and ECU you used?? We should expect more around 140-150 right?

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

Actually their is no oriface jet on the B-series blocks like D-series, just need to plug the head off.

you could probably make that kind of power, just need a good set of cams and pistons, mine were just stock. That intake really only helps out when forced induction comes into play.

Jeff

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

is is there a hole to plug up on the dseries... or is there an actual module you haave to take out.... i have the d15b7.....

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

taking out the oil jet depends on what computer/ harness your using. if your using the odb1 computer you have to take it out but if you dont do the harness swap you dont have to. all you have to do is hook up a + 12v to the green white wire, but i would take out the jet to be more reliable

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Why would that even mater? The vtec solinoid needs to have pressure, if the oriface is installed on the deck of the block, you will get unsufficent oil supply to the solinoid. People have done these swaps and not taken the jet out, and have had vtec problems. It simply makes sense, if the Z6/y8 block doesnt have it, why should we?

Jeff

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

why is it so hard to figure this out.. :X a vtec block doesnt have a oil control jet,it has only 1 and its in the head.. so why would u wanna put 2 on another engine.. just slowin the oil down even more and when the vtec kicks in it does get proper oil thus causin the vtec to not work properly... :X might even ---- some cams up or somethin

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

I'm with jeff... I've seen Baby-Vtec's (Mini-me) where they didn't take the oil jet thing-thing in the block out, and they run fine, however, I would just to be on the safe side

Re:oil control jet for mini-me
 

nothin in there does it say the car will run fine if u leave them in.. it says it will get unsufficent oil supply... and cause vtec problems...