CA18DET Swap for 90 S13

Discuss topics related to the CA18DE and CA18DET series engines.
SmoovTrip
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:facepalm:

If anyone knows a good place to get quality motors and a quality shop to swap a CA18det in san diego. Please send it!

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Moved to the CA section. Lot's of awesome and super knowledgeable guys there that can surely help you out!

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To be completely honest. The newest engine you're going to find is basically 30 years old at this point and has likely been sitting in a junkyard, or on a shelf somewhere, for probably at least 10 years, maybe more. I would plan on buying an engine swap and rebuilding the engine immediately. As far as the swap itself goes, it's NOT hard, Basically remove the KA and put the CA in. Everything bolts up. As far as wiring goes, I wouldn't use the original harness either, for the same reasons as above. Get a new harness from Wiring Specialties. TRUST ME, you're going to have a MUCH better time trying to get it running with as much new/replaced stuff as possible. But DON'T try to modify it during the swap. You'll want to minimize changes as much as you can until you have it running.

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I sent you a text message.

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Holy. s***. Dee is alive!!!!

SmoovTrip
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Much love, thank you all ^~^

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Of course I am, Ryan. That thing called life and being a single father raising two kids with different personalities, paying for two college tuitions, pay for 3 cars insurance, a mortgage, I and all off a single person's income? Yeah, it's been a ride, brother.

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Bro. That's a rough go. But those kids couldn't have a better man for the job. You still got my number? HMU if you do.

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Check your PMs, brother.

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Glad everyone checks in here every now and again.

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This is still home for most of us or at least for some, where it all started. That thing called life eventually catches up and you turn your focuses away from your desires to the things that require all of your immediate attention "Children"

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I check in here on the regular still, but the FB page has all the traffic. It's annoying to use though. It's the same questions over and over again.

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Good to see this board is still around (although seemingly hidden since its not on the righthand directory). Hope all the OG's are doing well.

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We had to rearrange the side links and consolidate all the engines into one category called engines under the technical category.


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