{"id":44,"date":"2007-06-22T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-06-22T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T19:01:19","slug":"1996-civic-hb-with-ls1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"1996 Civic HB with LS1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I don&#8217;t know if this is the first one ever attempted but I never have seen this done before. The best way to describe this swap would be to take a complete corvette drivetrain and slap a civic hatchback body over it. This swap includes the engine, transaxle, torque tube, front suspension, and even most of the corvette interior. Many LS1tech members are bashing the guy for not swapping the motor into another car. I say if they guy wants to do this swap and completes it, more credit to him. It is a tough swap to say the least. I don&#8217;t know if this will be more corvette or  civic? Either way it will be one of the wildest civics ever created. <\/p>\n<p>Source and more images: <a href=\"http:\/\/carscoop.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/civette-honda-civic-with-corvette-ls1.html\">Carscoop.blogspot.com<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ls1tech.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=730443&#038;page=1&#038;pp=20\">LS1tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I don&#8217;t know if this is the first one ever attempted but I never have seen this done before. The best way to describe this swap would be to take a complete corvette drivetrain and slap a civic hatchback body over it. This swap includes the engine, transaxle, torque tube, front suspension, and even&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=44\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1996 Civic HB with LS1<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1441,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=1441","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"1964 Corvette with Turbo LS1","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A 1964 Corvette with a single turbo LS1 swap. 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