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im gonna do a b20b swap soon. im gonna go from carbed(i hate carbs) to fi. i just need a tranny basically. ive been slowly working on my 350 swap in my 79 trans am for a year and a half. i kept running into problems, mainly money and not knowing what im doing. i have the engine sitting in the car bolted to the tranny. this summer my dad is gonna help me since he knows how to work on old cars.
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Who here has done an engine swap?
Started by Don, Aug 09 2001 03:40 PM
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#31
Posted 21 March 2005 - 09:38 PM
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#32
Posted 21 March 2005 - 11:58 PM
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- I bleed motor oil.
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I Did a D15A3 Swap in my Si, and a EV2 swap (
) in the Bulldog.
With the Bulldog, I blew up the motor, and the only one I had lying around that could go in readily was my old EV2 1.3 that came out of my Si, so I swapped that sucker in (amazing gas mileage, though!)
For the Si, I swapped out the Carb'd EV2 and converted the fuel system to FI, replaced and re-did most of the entire wiring harness from the carb'd to FI harness, and swapped in the Si motor....
Haven't had any problems with either motor since the swaps, they run great!
Cheers,
Mark
) in the Bulldog.With the Bulldog, I blew up the motor, and the only one I had lying around that could go in readily was my old EV2 1.3 that came out of my Si, so I swapped that sucker in (amazing gas mileage, though!)
For the Si, I swapped out the Carb'd EV2 and converted the fuel system to FI, replaced and re-did most of the entire wiring harness from the carb'd to FI harness, and swapped in the Si motor....
Haven't had any problems with either motor since the swaps, they run great!
Cheers,
Mark
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#33
Posted 22 March 2005 - 12:54 AM
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- Turbodan
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#34
Posted 22 March 2005 - 02:29 AM
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- Ungawa!
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Unlike a lot of you, I haven't done a major swap, just replaced an oil-burning EV with an EW. I bought an '88 Integra for a donor car but I soon realized that swapping a D16 into my carb'd 3G was more of a job than I wanted to tackle at the time...mostly due to wiring. But I lucked out and bought a set of dual Mikuni carbs from eldo, which proved to be a much simpler route for me.
#35
Posted 22 March 2005 - 03:58 AM
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- Slowpoke
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I havent done a swap yet but plane on it....I want to go b series..I am not sure yet..I was thinking going LS vtec but I may just go with b18c....GSR..THe main reason I havent done the swap is cuase of Money...
#36
Posted 23 March 2005 - 02:02 AM
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No swaps yet...
Closest I've ever come to one is putting the lightly modified '81 280zx L28e (FI) motor from my rusty car into my lighter, prettier, less-rusty '72 240z that was carbed. Turns out I eventually sold both cars to go to college and now my only car, a '85 CRX Si has the original EW3. Why no swap?
1. I'm in college (self-sustaining, absolutely no parental $ whatsoever...for the last 6 years in fact) = I'm poor
2. No garage/facility to um...facilitate such an undertaking for the unspecified days/weeks/months it would take.
3. Even tho the original EW3 in it now has ~207k, it is tuned to perfection for optimal reliability and gas mileage (avg. for the last 10k has been ~38-40 mpg) and it can still chirp and scream with the best of them so why fix what isn't broken? If the bitch breaks, I'll consider a B-series, unless money is tight and a substitue EW3 will have to do. Mak
Closest I've ever come to one is putting the lightly modified '81 280zx L28e (FI) motor from my rusty car into my lighter, prettier, less-rusty '72 240z that was carbed. Turns out I eventually sold both cars to go to college and now my only car, a '85 CRX Si has the original EW3. Why no swap?
1. I'm in college (self-sustaining, absolutely no parental $ whatsoever...for the last 6 years in fact) = I'm poor
2. No garage/facility to um...facilitate such an undertaking for the unspecified days/weeks/months it would take.
3. Even tho the original EW3 in it now has ~207k, it is tuned to perfection for optimal reliability and gas mileage (avg. for the last 10k has been ~38-40 mpg) and it can still chirp and scream with the best of them so why fix what isn't broken? If the bitch breaks, I'll consider a B-series, unless money is tight and a substitue EW3 will have to do. Mak
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i see you did a world class rape on the rest of the vehicle lol.
#37
Posted 23 March 2005 - 02:12 AM
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- Spoool'n
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