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Originally posted by cashizslick
The Civic chassi is not designed to handle an H22 - plain and simple. The motor sits awkwardly in the car/not to mention it's power numbers require you to greatly beef up ur suspension in order to be able to drive properly.
BTW, if you put an H22 in ur car, consider it a car that will only run "the straight and narrow" cause the added weight on your front end will make you corner like crap.
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how does it "sit awkwardly"???
The power has NOTHING to do with suspension upgrades... it's the weight... which is not much more than a gsr... or b16...
It'll be more front heavy making for minorly worse handling then a b or d series civic but nothing that can't be worked around with a tunable suspension.
you would only realy need stiffer front springs and maybe a beefier set of sway bars...
The reason the civic chassis isn't "designed to handle an H22" is because they (h22's) have a front crossmember mount which goes un-used since our chassis' don't have a mount point...
The aftermarket mounts seem to be working out fine...
The
rumour that h22's don't belong in civic's started a LONG time ago when the swap craze started... ONE shop tried it and said it was too squirelly and unsafe since you have hammer dents into the frame...
With the new mount kits there's little to no problem...
Having said all this... I wouldn't recomend the swap for ANYONE but someone who know's enough about it or someone with enough money to pay someone who know's how to do it.
You have to cut the tranny mount ear on the frame (preventing you from being able to swithcing back to a b or d series motor)
you also need to cut a hole in the pass. compartment for the cables for the cable shift tranny to come into the pass. compt. and attach to the shifter assembly... I believe you also have to cut the shifter hole a little wider (or maybe drill holes to mount the h22 shifter ass.).
Over all it's a lot of work. and not for the faint of heart.