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Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:58 pm
okay, sorry it took me awhile to get back to this, but holy s**t did we have problems.. I have the service manual from Chilton, and if anyone else is using this, you can throw it out the window.
For the most part it was pretty accurate. I was right about the only differences being the head and valve cover. Everything else bolted right up from the S14 to the S13 ka24de.. However, I thought our timing had jumped. It didn't jump.
The manual gave a certain way to have your cams aligned when putting it back together.. it was wrong, and would not fire. We were pulling our hair out. Luckily I found an article and diagram from Jim Wolf Technology that helped me out. The cam positioning is completely different than Chilton. My timing marks are not aligned, but it fired right up! I've been driving the car for a few days now and it runs great.
The sound is a different story.. I bought a DC Sports header from someone for $25 bucks because it was slightly bent from an accident. Figured I'd get a few more horses until my turbo kit is done. It now sounds like it has no muffler. Honestly to best describe it, it sounds like a Honda. Loud and whiney. I hate it.. But I guess that's just more incentive to finish my turbo kit.
I have pics of the swap if anyone is interested...