How easy is it to do the swap alone!!!

[SIK TWIST3D S14]

Me and my pops were deciding on doing the swap ourselves we both have experience with engines just not so in dept. I wanted to know on a scale from 1 to 10 how hard is it for beginners and what should i get to teach me step by step

THANKS

[S14toRPS13]

If you're mechanically inclined, I'd say it's about a 2. Everything lines up. That's with using mostly hand tools too. Then again, I use to swap out big diesel engines and transmission on a daily basis. Drifting.com has a really good SR swap video, if you'd like to see step by step instructions.

[positron1]

I agree with him with "2". I had someone help me put it on a engine stand, drop it into the car and startup but everything else I did by myself.............took me a almost a year but....

[SIK TWIST3D S14]

Do i have to pay for the dvd to watch or is it right on their main screen and just download

[gmac708]

Check out "the kids 240" link in my signature. We had a bunch of fun!

Everything you need, as far as info, is here on the NICO forums. Do lot's of reading before you ask questions. Search button is up there on the top right corner.

Swap is a piece of cake, auto to manual makes it a little harder. Go for it

[Justin35ll]

It is easy. Only problem I had was I had the wrong engine mounts because one of mine broke so after going through 2 sets of mounts it was frustrating, but when I finally got the right ones, the engine was running the next day lol

[hungryjoseph]

you can think of it as doing alot of simple things. thats what the swap basically is, a lot of simple things you need to do one after the other. i guess you can watch the dvd from drifting.com, which i've seen, and i think is quite useless. the best thing you can do is keep yourself organized, ziplock bags to keep your bolts and nuts in, with marker to write where they came from. being careful not to strip things. taking things step by step. using your common sense. keeping your tools organized. reading through the walkthroughs can help. they will give you an idea of what you need to do in what order.

[positron1]

So, have you made a decision yet?

[redsx13]

dude, its not that bad, i did the swap by myself. and i mean by myself. only thing i had help with was physically dropping it in. and even then it was just one other person.

do it!!!!!!!

here is a full write uphttp://srownersclub.com/faq/index.asp

that link makes it look hard but its really easy.

[redsx13]

gmac708, what the hell happened to the 240 in your sig?? dont tell me that was yours.

[positron1]

Jesus I wanted to ask that as well, it looks like the Hulk landed on it!

[Justin35ll]

Or the big a** tree laying next to it? lol, but that damn that would suck haha

[tercel drifter]

6 hours for me to do so pretty easy... already done the wiring though

[Koshin]

EASY

[WestTxSR20Tuner]

Get the DVD. It will save you from having to go back and redo things the hard way. The only problems I had were just dealing with an old car. For example stripped bolts and broken plugs.

[dc1984]

pretty easy swap. just do some swap guide reading, and have all the proper tools

[Kalypso]

its not hard,

especially if you have needle nose clippers for popping off the shifter.

thats the one tool I was missing.

[positron1]

So have you two decided to attempt the swap yourselfs or nay?

[thestartingline]

Way easy, Plus if you run into any problems you have a ton of information online to get you through it.

[2projects2many]

Just finished mine on Friday- took 7 days working 2-3 hrs a night plus all last weekend day and night.