By Jacob (128.193.54.88) on Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 01:46 pm:

Hey guys check out this link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=595859175

My factory pistons are 72mm in the 1976 1200... Correct? Why wouldn't I be able to put 73mm pistons in it with slight boring? Or does this guy have his information fowled up.

By John S. (207.160.161.179) on Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 04:36 pm:

CVCC 1488-1588 pistons are 74mm from factory.
The 70mm pistons are from early (73-74) only Civics. You cannot unbore a block so they are not useable in EB2's or EB3's.

By Charles R. (64.166.23.206) on Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 07:57 pm:

Yes you can put the 1488CVCC pistons into an EB2 or EB3 block. The cylinder walls seem to hold up just fine. I used to think they were a little thin with that much overbore, but Charles H. has told me about the turbo'ed 1200 with this done.


The CVCC flat top pistons, a 1300 crank/rod set and an EB2 head gives just over 1400cc's and a 12:1 compression. That's exactly what I had in the white car. For a street motor I'd use the EB3 head for a compression ratio of around 9:1 and a smaller cam.

By Jacob (128.193.168.112) on Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 11:23 pm:

John S. Did you read what I wrote? I said nothing about deboring the block, just wanted to know if I could make the CVCC pistons work, since I can, we're on our way, thanks guys.

By Todd (63.50.56.154) on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 10:30 am:

Hey Jacob,
Did you read what you posted? John was talking about the 70mm pistons in the link you provided.

By Jacob (128.193.168.154) on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 11:12 am:

I know.... I made no reference to the 70mm pistons in the link I provided. I was talking about... if you read what I wrote... the 73mm pistons he mentions in the auction.

Also, I felt kind of bad about what I wrote earlier, it was late, I just got done studying, I wanted to go home and go to bed. But, I decided to write a post instead... my bad, sorry guys.

Later
Jacob

By Todd (63.50.56.123) on Friday, September 28, 2001 - 06:36 pm:

I was just joking around J. It's all good.