My swap

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jedimind240
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Joined: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:33 pm
Location: Evansville, IN 47713

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Here's some pics of my engine swap so far. Put pretty much all new gaskets on her, replaced the water and oil pumps, got a new oil pan, 350z exedy stock clutch. Replaced the timing belt, got the injectors cleaned and in usable shape, and put a isis intake manifold with greddy throttle body adapter. I used the syko performance mount kit and have had no problems with it at all. Just have to find time to wire everything up and hook everything up. and get some winter wheels. also some pics of the type x taillights, manual seat belt conversion, and the nismo lmgt4 summer wheels.


lazyboi444
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Car: 240sx Hatchback

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Looking good. Why is the ac hose stretching way across the motor? Who did you get your engine from?

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jedimind240
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Location: Evansville, IN 47713

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The ac lines just stretched acrossed because we had to move it and i haven't done anything with it yet, im wantin to keep the ac but its winter so its not a big deal to not have it right now. I got the motor from a company on ebay, i think it was jdmengine depot or something along those lines. Only real issue with it when i got it was that the stock intake manifold had a bracket that broke off with a chunk of the manifold making a huge hole, but i was gonna get the greddy style intake manifold anyway so it wasn't a big deal. I had the wiring done through rawbrokerage a couple months back. Really like the communication and service, but when i got the harness back it had a few broken connectors on it, talked to him and he sent me one, i was just kinda s***ty cause i payed so much for the wiring job and i found out later that replacing connectors wasn't in the deal, was kinda sour about it, but i'll still shop with rawbrokerage in the future cause it was at least communicated and handled pretty well.

Darius
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Car: RB25DET S14 - 665 WHP (SOLD)
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I might be able to hook you up with an AC kit if you want to keep it functional. I need to see if the kit I have developed works on S13s too.

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jedimind240
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I would definitely be down for anything to help hook the ac up, im not gonna be doing anything with ac for a couple months though, cause definitely don't need ac during these indiana winters.

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RustspecS13
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Car: '74 260z and '88 300zx turbo

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Looks like a nice start on your swap.

What color is that on the coil pack cover? I really would like to paint my rb20 valve covers that color.

~Alex

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jedimind240
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Location: Evansville, IN 47713

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Its a copper or bronze type color from one of the parts stores. I got the valve covers painted the same color as the car. My buddies dad painted the coil cover from so i can't tell you the exact color. Im gonna respray the valve covers cause i did a s***ty job, Im also gonna repaint the coil cover to match the bronze color of the LM-GT4's.


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