Will a 92 Honda Civic motor fit in a 98 Honda Civic?

Answer 1

This depends on the motor you're looking to swap. if you have a d series motor it will fit without modification, but you may need to run a vtec wire if you don't have vtec and the engine you're swapping in does. but if you're 98 civic is an si then it won't work without different mounts, axles, ecu etc. but I'm guessing you just have a d series.

Edit by SmokeShank:

The motors physically are interchangeable just like mention aboved. Dont worry about the SI, because they did not make the civic SI in 1998. Your 98 civic either has the D16y7 motor (non Vtec) or a D16y8 motor (vtec). They best thing to do is match the motor if you have vtec or not. If you have vtec, a 92-95 D16z6 motor is what you need. If you have the y7, a 92-95 D15b7 will work. The problems you will need to sort out is that your 98 civic is an OBD 2 vehicle and the 92-95 civic is OBD1. This means you will need the obd1 computer from the civic, a wire harness adaptor (Rywire.com), and do some reworking with the harness around the intake manifold. You could use the OBD1 engine harness, but they are different. The obd 1 harness plugs into the chassis harness on both shock towers in the OBD1 civic. Your OBD2 civic engine harness goes directly to the ECU.

Unless your familar with doing engine swaps, and converting cars from obd2 to obd1 and vise versa, then i would just stick with the current engine you have (D16Y7 or the Y8). I could take a guess and say your looking for an engine because of an Oil issue. The Y7/Y8 motor has notorious issues for the oil system. When doing your timing belt/water pump maitenence, I'd recommend putting a new oil pump in just to be save. Spinning bearings is becoming more common with those motors.