22 Nov L15B7 Swapped EK Civic

L15B7 Swapped EK Civic: Old school meets Hondas newest technology
By Aaron Gaghagen

Back in the olden days, around 2000-2002, K swaps weren’t really a thing. The B series was king. Honda had lost its way (No, not really!) and they switched to the newfangled K series engines for their performance minded Integra replacement, the RSX. A lot of the Honda heads at the time scoffed and moved on to build CRVTEC Frankenstein B series for “all the torque” on a budget with “real VTEC.” The “Kill Stories” section of some of the forums would be populated with stories of owning expensive RSXs with B powered EFs, EGs, EKs, DAs and DCs. But then a funny thing happened, tuners began to unlock the power potential of the K series and soon the K was the swap that everyone wanted.

Well, flash forward to the 10th gen Civic and the diminutive L15B7. Once again many enthusiasts declared that “Honda had lost their way.” “How dare they put a smaller engine in the Civic Si!” You know who wasn’t saying that? Bryant and Nikki Robinson, that’s who. The B16 in Nikki’s 6th gen Civic was on it’s last legs and they saw the potential in Honda’s newest turbocharged engine. Being one of the first to do such a swap wouldn’t be easy, but most things that are worth doing rarely are.

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