I have been playing with power steering on a Zc swap two of the holes at the bottom line up so I just added spacers and adding a third spacer at the top with an offset and just trimming it to look good
Compared some a6 parts to dohc zc parts. First we have the lower timing cover. Since those are a pain to find for the zc (mine costed $60 after looking for a month) and people said the a6 wont fit. You can use the a6 cover but it will need slight trimming to fit the motor mount and obviously would not match upper cover. But this is for guys who are in dire need of a lower cover and dont mind not having an upper cover. Zc is on the bottom a6 is on top.
Second we have the crank pulleys. ZC one is the same and the one I pulled off my 90 rt4wd with A/C and Powersteering. All belts will work, and the ZC is significantly lighter as you can see just by looking where material is missing on the zc and the a6 is damn near solid. ZC is bottom in 1st picture, 2nd picture zc is on the left.
Third I compared cam gears from a 88-91 Honda Prelude b20a5/b21. The zc and b21 share a timing belt and I had a set of adjustable gears laying around. It was a little tight fitting on the camshaft but they are brand new gears. Just needed a little tap with a hammer to go on. The prelude gear also appeared to by a little wider but less than 1/8". The H23 cam gears are also the same. Prelude gear is the silver adjustable one, zc is the stock one
I used to have b16 cam gears on my ZC. They are lighter and only thing I had to do was remake some timing marks on them and never had any problems! Good info lude! keep it up!
First test drive not a whole lot difference but it works lol easy swap
I did buy a OBD1 Zc distributor and made my own jumpers for distributor still working on power steering
Would you say it is worth it in the end though? All my hondas always had B16's so i never had to mess with the D's much. From what I hear slapping a jrsc on a D makes it comparable to a stock B16.
so can i just used the block on the zc and put a b16 head, so is this right??
No you can't do that. Unless you are a master tech fabricator, or some thing like that. zc is a d-series motor and the b-series head will not bolt up to it. I suggest you read carefully through this whole thread again. Really good info here, I used this thread as my guide for my first swap.
Fit my a6 power steering bracket to my zc block. Used the bottom 2 bolts with spacer but the a6 belt is an inch or so too short. To fit with my air conditioning I had to grind down some of the bracket
older thread but i just drove from utah to north carolina in the zc swap wagon user wagonef8 built and i got 50mpg highway! i thought my gas gauge was screwed up but was right and sweet. around town though about 24mpg.
older thread but i just drove from utah to north carolina in the zc swap wagon user wagonef8 built and i got 50mpg highway! i thought my gas gauge was screwed up but was right and sweet. around town though about 24mpg.
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Second we have the crank pulleys. ZC one is the same and the one I pulled off my 90 rt4wd with A/C and Powersteering. All belts will work, and the ZC is significantly lighter as you can see just by looking where material is missing on the zc and the a6 is damn near solid. ZC is bottom in 1st picture, 2nd picture zc is on the left.
Third I compared cam gears from a 88-91 Honda Prelude b20a5/b21. The zc and b21 share a timing belt and I had a set of adjustable gears laying around. It was a little tight fitting on the camshaft but they are brand new gears. Just needed a little tap with a hammer to go on. The prelude gear also appeared to by a little wider but less than 1/8". The H23 cam gears are also the same. Prelude gear is the silver adjustable one, zc is the stock one
I might just know where to get more of these..
This will make my D-series JRSC fit.. & I could just have a DOHC ZC without it..
so what was the size on the longer belt you endup using?
I did buy a OBD1 Zc distributor and made my own jumpers for distributor still working on power steering
I just picked up a wagon and have been thinking of just dumping a supercharger on it.
Only limited by effort...
No you can't do that. Unless you are a master tech fabricator, or some thing like that. zc is a d-series motor and the b-series head will not bolt up to it. I suggest you read carefully through this whole thread again. Really good info here, I used this thread as my guide for my first swap.
That's what I was looking for..
I am swapping with economic D15Z6 currently...