Wednesday of last week I met a guy over a new transmission for my integra project. My old trans isn’t bad or anything… but it’s a matter of gearing. The trans I bought is known as a B16 Cable Transmission.. It’s sort of a rare transmission that the Japanese made for their version of the civics so car enthusiasts call it “JDM.” A tranny from a US made B16 engine isn’t a cable tranny instead the Japanese used a hydrolic transmission so that’d be a “USDM” tranny for United States Domestic Market. Hydro trannys don’t work in the 90-93 ‘tegs because those tegs used a cable tranny like the JDM version.

What the B16 tranny does is it replaces the long geared ‘teg tranny with a short geared one. Short gears are better in cars with lots of low end power because it increases accelleration. With the B16 trans you can easily accellerate from 1st-5th much faster then in the old trans which takes a little longer.

Sometimes in a 1/4 mile that quick accelleration is the difference between win & fail.

So I’m putting this on da project list.

Good times..

~J out

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