CA Swap #3

[rico05]

More to come



New motor gets here Wednesday...

[sjbsuperman1425]

eeewww.....that sucks, how'd it happen?

[rico05]

Spun a bearing, decided "Why not try to drive home on it!".

Siezed the bearing and kicked a rod thru the block. Haha. I forgot to take pics of the MASSIVE hole lol.

[sjbsuperman1425]

low oil or something? again that sucks..

[rico05]

Not at all. JUST changed to Royal Purple 10W-40 from Mobil1 15W-50 two days before and "bang".

[ca18detgabby]

this one still "less is more"? type build or going a bit bigger this time?

[rico05]

Haha. Same as before. No changes. I just got laid off so I have no extra funds at the moment.

[float_6969]

Ouch that sucks man! Keep us updated on the progress and if you need anything for the swap.

[ca18detgabby]

Ouch that sucks man! Keep us updated on the progress and if you need anything for the swap.

word

[rico05]

Fo sho. Thus far, all is going well. I was able to remove some brackets and such from the hatch as well as rebuild the p/s rack (which sucked). I'll post up more pics when I am done. I am doing the swap in my home town, so it will be the weekend after my shake-down drive home!
Modified by rico05 at 11:17 AM 3/10/2009

[Ca_Silvia]

Where did you end up getting the motor from?

[rico05]

http://www.japanesestarmotor.com/

$1300 shipped. But shipping is slow as hell. The importer quoted me 3 days. The shipper changed that to 10. And it is looking to be more like 12...I am pretty pissed.

[RM12577]

they sell all the parts for a rack rebuild at like autozone or something, mine leaks quite a bit and has blown boots and its like 500 or something for a new on from frsport so i have just been putting more fluid in every month, and what made it suck so bad? if its rough to do ill just put off on it until i can no longer steer lol

[rico05]

The hardest parts were drilling out the strake (the little metal plug that lockes the end cap in place) and removing the metal spacer. I bought a kit from Nissan that included the end seals and the spacer. Took about an hour once I got the rack out. Getting the rack back in was a total pain as well. But it will be worth it! Mine had gotten so bad that if I ran anything other than straight Lucas Stop Leak, it would totally empty the rack, pump and reserviour is less than 50 miles.

[sjbsuperman1425]

http://www.japanesestarmotor.com/

$1300 shipped. But shipping is slow as hell. The importer quoted me 3 days. The shipper changed that to 10. And it is looking to be more like 12...I am pretty pissed.

yea it took them about 10 days or so to get it to me also. its pretty fun watching the guy unload the engine from the big truck though. especially cuz i didn't have to do anything

[rico05]

Motor get here tomorrow at 1pm! More pics to follow!

[rico05]

Oh, and I will be doing some new how to's for ya'll. Rear main seal install and Exhaust cam swap.

[r34 gtr]

^ Not if I get there first. Are you doing it this weekend? We can be buddies!

Have you ordered the parts yet? I've got mine sitting in front of me. Steamy made in Japan goodness. I even splurged and got a new OEM timing belt.

[rico05]

Yep. For the cam swap:New cam, cam gear, seals for both cams and belt.

For the rear main seal:Just the Fel-Pro kit lol.

I won't be able to post up until early next week, so you will beat me is seems. Yay for you.

[r34 gtr]

Haha, I don't know man, Ive got plenty of other things I need to do as well as the rear main seal. I'm going the front main / oil pump combo, oil pan seals, timing belt, rod bolts, possibly new bearings, TOB, and I'm fabbing up a new downpipe, Invidia WRX style. I might get around to throwing on my new breaks too, and then its off to get tuned. Its going to be a very busy 9 days, starting tomorrow.

[rico05]

Well, just got back in town. Motor needs to be fine tuned (read retimed) but she made it over 150 miles. Motor came with a mystery twin disk clutch, Nismo Type A FPR, and a modified but blown stock T25. I will upload pics in a bit.

[rico05]

My camera is being dumb so these are all I have at the moment.

Why the swap was needed:

Twin Disk. Looks to be OS Giken. Any thoughts?

With all my goodies swapped over:

Sorry for the crappy BBerry snaps. Once I get my camera working I will upload more.

[zero_gripS13]

r u going to use the clutch?

i wish my motor came with some goodies all i got was a blown headgasket and 3 cracked ringlands and a rusty cylinder thats been more trouble than saving for the dam motor in the first place lol.

[rico05]

Been using it for the last 3 days. I was curious when I saw a new slave cylinder on the transmission so I pulled it. Low and behold, a twin disk. It is bbbaaaddd. You have be a master of heel toe to do it with this bad boy, lol. But man o' man it is awesome.

[superJoy]

Sticker placement on timing cover is sweet, haha

Are those eBay aftermarket alt / ps pullies you've got on there? Are they lighter or something?

That clutch looks ancient, like mid-90s ancient. So baller.

[ca18detgabby]

you got mail rico.....

glad you are rolling again.

[rico05]

I was looking at pics of OS Giken clutches. Looks rrreeeaaalll similar...

And I love that sticker too.

I haven't gotten the message yet Gabby. I'll reply ASAP.

[rico05]

CAS is fine, so that makes me happy.

My buddy pulled apart the old motor. Crank is fudged (duh). Head is shot. #2 and #3 are all ok. #4 has some slag on the rod/bearing and a cracked ring land. I thought my motor was down on power.

[r34 gtr]

You broke a ring land too? The pieces of my ring land found their way into the #4 main bearing, which was fun, and all four of my cylinder bores are scored from dry starts because my oil pump is shot. Reason for the oil pump being shot? broken piece of a fire ring (my rings are fine though???) got into the pump and tore up the main gear. As a result of the scored bores, my pistons are all borderline unserviceable.

Oh the fun I have! I can't believe it still ran so smoothly!!

I really wish I had gotten pictures, but I was really rushed to get all the parts put away so my dad could use the workshop to re-do the hall bathroom in our house. I'll take some of the carnage when I go home for the summer. Its pretty awesome looking.

[busteds13]

Rico,

I have a strange story for you, i blew up two KA's which were old, they threw rods through the block AFTER i had done all of MY not the previous owner oil changes with full synthetic (royal purple). After buying the CA i did reaserch on oil, i didnt do any rebuild but i change my oil with semi synthetic, and will never use full synthetics again. and it runs happy.

anyways, i was wondering if you figured out the culprit for the unfourtinate kaboom, and if not i urge you to consider looking carefully at your oil choice, I read that older engines that were not started on synthetic and used dino oil all their life, tend to buid up oil sludge, that slowly adjusts your ring gaps and bearing to crank gaps to work with the engine and changes (over tyme), and when you switch to full synthetic, it slowly clears all the guck, and then your clearences are off, stuff starts walking around and then you get the dreaded boom. If you did full rebuild its prolly not gunna be that much of an issue, otherwise, i believe royal purple could be an engine killer.

Long winded, and just a thought, i hope the next one is nicer to you.