You swapped or They Swapped??

[blue93cb]

My H22 swap took 9 months. Family and full-time job meant most of the time was spent on the weekends if I had that much time free. I bought my CB7 in February of 07 and bought the engine about a week or two later. I had never worked on a CB so even with a manual everything was new to me and took waaaaay more time than should have. I ran into problems along the way, but I know my engine compartment inside and out now.

Cost:
$1050 Engine/Trans/ECU
$60 Enterprise truck rental to pick up engine
$500 various tools/parts

[F20A CB7]

Excellent tthread, this may be a sticky 1 day, and to the oe poster I love ur sig.


I don't have a H motor. But I can speak on F series swap, to me I got ripped off big time and it was around x mas time. I bought a F22B dohc motor for 750 shipped from Nj. I called this guy in my local city he said he'll do it for 500 even. I said ok, took it to him, he put my dohc bitch in, looked sweet. He started it up and the cam was siezed, motor wasn't spinnin over, check this out, he charged me 500 to put it in, he charged me another 500 to my f20a sohc in, why??? Cuz he had to take out the f22b, I had to send it back , get my money back, find another dealer for a motor cuz the oe dealer of my f22b didn't have anymore dohc's in stock. I asked him b4 I bought my motor how many do u have there, he said 6. Btw the f22b was dirty, loked like it came from a jy to b honest.

I will never pay some1 to drop another motor in my cb7, never. I know to much thanks to this site to have some 1 do anything for me, it comes down to the owner if you wanna do it urself and have space, and tools.

[Djmoua]

Excellent tthread, this may be a sticky 1 day, and to the oe poster I love ur sig.


I don't have a H motor. But I can speak on F series swap, to me I got ripped off big time and it was around x mas time. I bought a F22B dohc motor for 750 shipped from Nj. I called this guy in my local city he said he'll do it for 500 even. I said ok, took it to him, he put my dohc bitch in, looked sweet. He started it up and the cam was siezed, motor wasn't spinnin over, check this out, he charged me 500 to put it in, he charged me another 500 to my f20a sohc in, why??? Cuz he had to take out the f22b, I had to send it back , get my money back, find another dealer for a motor cuz the oe dealer of my f22b didn't have anymore dohc's in stock. I asked him b4 I bought my motor how many do u have there, he said 6. Btw the f22b was dirty, loked like it came from a jy to b honest.

I will never pay some1 to drop another motor in my cb7, never. I know to much thanks to this site to have some 1 do anything for me, it comes down to the owner if you wanna do it urself and have space, and tools.

o shiz! Sorry for your pain dood, i guess that's a lesson learned we should take from ya...but damn, that means i gotta take some time off of work to put my H in with some buddies! Can't wait! How many days would you guys suggest? Me and about 3 other buddies...with say, only 1 knows the 'how-to' on an H22 swap..this should be about hmm...4 days max??
BTW..thanks for the info so far guys! keep em comin! I'll post mine up for sure when i get mine done!

[Ant]

I had to pay to get my swap done. I would say it took him about 3 days & that's including installing a set of coilovers, front sway bar bushings.

Price list:
F22B DOHC $960 (motor, a/t, ecu, shipping)
Labor $400
Nex coilovers $350
Labor $150
Front bushings $15 ?
Honda a/t fluid $10
Antifreeze $8 ?
Oil & filter I forgot

I believe that's everything. I'm still learning about our CB7's and have done small jobs on it myself (axles, exhaust, install integra radiator). Personally i wish i was there when the job was getting done, but b/c of work i couldn't.

[Djmoua]

I had to pay to get my swap done. I would say it took him about 3 days & that's including installing a set of coilovers, front sway bar bushings.

Price list:
F22B DOHC $960 (motor, a/t, ecu, shipping)
Labor $400
Nex coilovers $350
Labor $150
Front bushings $15 ?
Honda a/t fluid $10
Antifreeze $8 ?
Oil & filter I forgot

I believe that's everything. I'm still learning about our CB7's and have done small jobs on it myself (axles, exhaust, install integra radiator). Personally i wish i was there when the job was getting done, but b/c of work i couldn't.

Wow the DOHC F22B is under 1G? Interesting.....

[jewinabox]

Maximum Velocity Motorsports did my swap.

:] Good stuff.

H22A - $3300.00 ( Built H22 btw )
Hondata - $595.00
OBDI P28 - $150.00
SWAP - $1050.00
Pull Valve Cover and check engine condition etc. - $140.00
JDM Shift Boot Modification - $35.00
Custom power steering line - $97.83
Short Ram Intake - $40.00
Fast Idle Control - $50.00
Misc. charges ( fluids, other random things. ) - $265.24
Dyno Time/Tuning - $300.00

Total Cost of this swap (excluding the trouble with my balance shaft belt/clogged cat/flex pipe) = $6023.07

Expecting a few hundred more and then I will be finished with my swap :]

[samuri88]

i did the swap....2 weeks...i had 2 work and go 2 school
but just about 2000 bucks.. oOo..and its a f23a1

[ChIoVnIdCa]

$6023.07

[jewinabox]

thats just the beginning.

I've still got a ton of shit I want to do to it.

:]

[benjerman112]

Green Light Honda in SD CA did my swap. i didnt know a thing about our cars but a prelude engine fits in it. I didnt know what a H22a was till i rode in a friengs car,then i was hooked i had to have DOHC VTEC

H22a4 complet swap $2400
labor to make it all work $2000
cant remember what all they did i'm sure you all know?

[jewinabox]

Green Light Honda in SD CA did my swap. i didnt know a thing about our cars but a prelude engine fits in it. I didnt know what a H22a was till i rode in a friengs car,then i was hooked i had to have DOHC VTEC

H22a4 complet swap $2400
labor to make it all work $2000
cant remember what all they did i'm sure you all know?

haha I understand that about the DOCH VTEC. I've gotten to drive mine once since they put the engine in, but then the balance shaft belt snapped. I was still happy even though the car was messed up cause I got to hit VTEC for the first time lol.

[Djmoua]

Maximum Velocity Motorsports did my swap.

:] Good stuff.

H22A - $3300.00 ( Built H22 btw )
Hondata - $595.00
OBDI P28 - $150.00
SWAP - $1050.00
Pull Valve Cover and check engine condition etc. - $140.00
JDM Shift Boot Modification - $35.00
Custom power steering line - $97.83
Short Ram Intake - $40.00
Fast Idle Control - $50.00
Misc. charges ( fluids, other random things. ) - $265.24
Dyno Time/Tuning - $300.00

Total Cost of this swap (excluding the trouble with my balance shaft belt/clogged cat/flex pipe) = $6023.07

Expecting a few hundred more and then I will be finished with my swap :]

$6023 and more?!?! Holy Shyzzah!

[jewinabox]

$6023 and more?!?! Holy Shyzzah!

Yeah and I just found out that my balance shaft bearings are in my oil pan :/

So who knows now.

Maybe it didnt do anything catastrophic.

[WilliamW]

F22B with manual transmission 1000
Motor mount bracket (rear) 90
Explicit street performance motor mounts 270
stage three clutch with 8lb flywheel 300
DSM injectors 50
half shafts BOTH w/ intermediate 300
Bad transmission needed full rebuild 1400
new shifter linkages to boot 450
Shifter assembly 50
Whole pedal assembly with slave cylinder 100
Computer Dune by d112crzy Nicely priced



It took some time when finding out what I DIDN'T have. But it's worth it doing the work yourself. I had a transmission shop repair the tranny and shifter linkage because I don't know transmissions that good and I needed my transmission fixed "right" the first time. The linkages I could have done my self but I was tired of foolin around with it, and I've done it before so it's not that I can't it's just that I didn't want to.

All in all well worth it to do a good job yourself. Even if the project ends up being 4010. It would have been lots cheaper if I didn't have that bad tranny shipped with the motor.

[Djmoua]

F22B with manual transmission 1000
Motor mount bracket (rear) 90
Explicit street performance motor mounts 270
stage three clutch with 8lb flywheel 300
DSM injectors 50
half shafts BOTH w/ intermediate 300
Bad transmission needed full rebuild 1400
new shifter linkages to boot 450
Shifter assembly 50
Whole pedal assembly with slave cylinder 100
Computer Dune by d112crzy Nicely priced



It took some time when finding out what I DIDN'T have. But it's worth it doing the work yourself. I had a transmission shop repair the tranny and shifter linkage because I don't know transmissions that good and I needed my transmission fixed "right" the first time. The linkages I could have done my self but I was tired of foolin around with it, and I've done it before so it's not that I can't it's just that I didn't want to.

All in all well worth it to do a good job yourself. Even if the project ends up being 4010. It would have been lots cheaper if I didn't have that bad tranny shipped with the motor.

ya! this is about how much i'll see myself spending when i do my H swap. Well hopefully less though Thanks for the info too btw.