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After three years a teacher gets her 1996 Honda Accord back with a H22 engine swap and was also converted to manual transmission. Want a good laugh? Check this article which seems to confuse “VTEC” with “V8”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Huffington Post<\/a> via Carscoop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three years a teacher gets her 1996 Honda Accord back with a H22 engine swap and was also converted to manual transmission. Want a good laugh? Check this article which seems to confuse “VTEC” with “V8”. Source: Huffington Post via Carscoop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accord"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104805,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=104805","url_meta":{"origin":1214,"position":0},"title":"Honda K-Series Swap Kit for Porsche 996\/997","author":"swaptastic","date":"September 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Ben Sipson at Bayside Fabrication released his Honda K-series swap kit for the Porsche 996 or 997. 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