Engine swapping-- HELP

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Bulova10
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Car: 1990 Nissan D21

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Hello, I have a D21 from 1990 with a bad engine. I brought a second-hand KA24E engine and a friend of mine is doing the engine swap. Even if the engines look the same, they are different; for example, the engine distributor of the D21 engine does not fit the new engine. I believe the engine that I brought was of a car, maybe a Nissan 240 SX. My question is, can I still use the pickup CPU and hardness, or do it will need to be changed? :facepalm:


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kornmanz
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Might need to swap out some things from the old engine to the new engine (such as sensors) but theoretically it should work if the truck was originally KA. I once swapped a EJ20 into a subaru that had an EJ25 originally and once I swapped the sensors, crank gears, and intake manifold from the US engine the JDM engine worked on the old ECU/Harness just fine. Albeit a little rich.


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