Anybody interested in a motor swap?
 

So, I've been scouring the for sale forums loking for parts for my swap, and right now I can score enough parts to put together a JDM V7 type RA motor for less than $3000. Considering those of you with EJ20s under the hood have $15-1800 in your engine fund banks already, let me know if you are interested. You'd be looking at a factory ECU (which the boys at S2 can reflash), closed deck EJ20G with forged internals, AVCS heads with super jammy ports, V7 manifold sans TGVs, pretty much everything. Your choice of turbo + intercooler which gives some flexibility. Any interested parties?

Re: Anybody interested in a motor swap?
 

<drool> But I'm going STX this season... :( Oh, and I'm too broke still paying off all the stuff I bought on credit. :lol:

If I had something to put it in... and a whole lot of money.. but since i have neither... sorry :(

Re: Anybody interested in a motor swap?
 

You'd pax higher in NSM with 350 hp than in STX with 270. ;) And you would be out about $1500 after selling your motor (probably to I-Speed).

And before you say "lag" read this.

Wow, but my car is still barely a year old.

Re: Anybody interested in a motor swap?
 

Somehow I doubt I'd be competative in SM at Topeka with 350hp. Esp. considering a simple Stage 1 STi would mop me up in SM, not to mention the trailer queens in that class. Whereas, I'm tuned to the limits of STX right now. If I'm not a shitty driver, I should at least be competative nationally. I prolly won't win jack if I go, but at least I'll only have my driving to blame.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, since I'm not going to nationals this year. :P

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Cool, you bought the V7 Spec-C stuff then kev?

No, since I have no car to put it in. I just figured it would be cool to help someone else build a stupid fast car that won't break.

That motor/tranny needs to find a home in a '98 L.... with a wide-body kit.

If I had money and a big garage, it'd be on.... :lol:

Why 98? There is a 96 in the sac bee just screaming for this to be done to it :P

Just cuz the '98s have the better Forrester interior.

For how much?

You'd have to put it in a pre OBDII car to pass emissions. That's why my project cars is a 93! I've takin the interior from a wrecked 2000 RS and it bolted right in, for the most part. :wink:

All you need to do is convert it to a US ecu and add the appropriate emissions equipment.

I'm pretty sure track cars don't need to pass emissions. :P

Ahhhh. "Offroad use only" 8)

Yeah, I shoulda thought of that too. ;)

Actually we do have emissions standards in Reno and Vegas, they're just not as retarded as CA's. I'm pretty sure a JDM swap like that wouldn't pass here unless you found a smog shop willing to overlook the details... the real trick is to get am address outside of Washoe and Henderson(?) counties, where there truly is no smog regulation.

Actually, you guys would have a cake time getting the car to pass. All you gotta do is use your WRX ecu and wiring harness. You only have the OBDII scan, no tailpipe test right? A simple reflash will take care of the TGV CEL, then you put the JDM ecu in so it can control the AVCS. Piece of cake.

As long as you have the factory ECU and no CEL ity will pass. There's not even a visual inspection for OBDII cars.

I live in Lyon county (no smog check!) and over the years many of my friends have used my address or gotten their own post office box to register their cars. This seems to work well. I think one of my friends had his Lyon county P.O. Box mail forwarded to Reno.

I know this is how many folks with highly modified 4x4's get registered.

Theo

Hey Theo!

Yep, I had the same benefit when I lived in Carson City, no smog check.

Poor guys who have to worry about smog... Im in Cali and in my county.. NO SMOG! :)

Many years ago I lived in Orange county. At the time I was driving a VW Thing. After a few months I got a California drivers licencse and tried to register my car. One look at the motor and I failed smog. They insisted I must replace my motor with the original smog motor. The original smog motor blew up at 27k miles due to the smog system leaning out the mixture. I'm sure my motor would have passed the sniff test but I couldn't get past the visual test.

I fought a long battle and ended up with over $1000 in fines. I finaly told them to piss off and drove back to Nevada to get registered and a new license. I never paid the fines and they later nailed me for living in California and not registering my car. This ended up around $1000 fine also. When I moved back to Nevada I had multiple bench warrents remaining in Ca. I never paid a dime.

Theo

that is truly badass Theo!

Don't let the man bring you down. 8)

Fuck the eco-nazis!!! BURN THE GREEN GESTAPO!!!!