How fast is a fast swap??

[Charlie240sxt]

Well I am a Ka-t guy but have a Rb20 and sr buddys around. Today as of 10 mins from this post we start a swap. That hopes to be done tonight we have one guys car aready swaped, but found a stock 240 with blown motor and bad panit with NO RUST OR DENTS for 600.So we are swaping the Sr20det from the red(92) to the black(90) 240 with front mount and 3inch from turbo back turbo timer MBC well everything that has to do with the sr. Anyone think it can or will get done in 1 day??

[RMiller]

Sure it can. You should be working instead of asking questions though. My second time swapping my CA it took about 2 hours to get the KA out and the CA mounted. Figure an hour for all the wiring, an hour for driving places and getting fluids you forgot, wire connectors, etc, 2 hours for stuff you would never think of, a half hour to bolt up the exhaust, an hour(at least) to bolt up the intercooler and trim the bumper, at least an hour to install the guages nice and pretty, half hour to swap the cluster ('90 tach doesn't work) or just the tach, another 3 hours for stuff like power steering, running your vacuum lines, using 50 zip ties, and stuff I can't remember.

Let's see, by my exact science your swap will take 12 hours. So in Oklahoma you started at like 9am, and you'll be done at 9pm. Seriously though, I could do it in a day and so could some other guys on here, but it probably takes others at least a few days to finish. It depends on who you've got working on it with you. I recommend air tools to speed things up...so satisfying.

[Charlie240sxt]

We where done by 625pm started at 10am(took an hour trying to blow the ka)with an hour off to eat. Was this a fast swap compard to most people? car seeing about 11lbs and wont keep the tires planned with it floored (open diff)man with all the Rbs and Sr we got running around here i need to hurry and get some boost.

[Silvia007]

Not bad. Me and a buddy of mine usually finish in a day also. Faster with more people that knows how to help out.

[timmybgood]

my first and only swap was a redtop into my 95, took my grandpa and i just 2.5 days in the driveway. started on the first try. is that quick?

[RMiller]

I must say that's pretty fast. It helps to be able to take out stuff from one car and move it to the other, and it helps to have helpers. You don't have any traction at 11 psi? Are you slipping the clutch or does it just start burning out? I run 1 bar on a CA with a T28 and I don't break traction just stepping on it in 1st, I just go. I don't think I have an LSD because it wouldn't be very likely on a non-hicas car, but it's possible and I'll have to check by doing some donuts.

2 1/2 days is respectable also, especially doing it in a driveway.

[Charlie240sxt]

Thats how this was no power or air tools just 2 tool sets and 4 then 5 guys and a hoist. Now we are soon to start (maybe)rb20 in the old shell that the Sr came from. Last time i was in a Rb swap took a month. Also my Ka started knocking last night so thats got to get changed out soon.

It brakes loose abit if you just floor it but it you rev and slip the cluch it spins thou 2nd pretty EZ.

[Morph]

6 months 3 mechanics bishez!!!!!!!!

[robbbby]

2+ years and still not done.

[zombieman]

mines took about a month. if i was to add all the hours of actual work, it probably would equal to 1 and half day but i decide to just leave my car lying there and not work on it for some days and put in only a an hour or two each day when i do work on it. all i use were hand tools because i was to lazy to pull my compressor out. i did 95% of the job myself, so i would think doing a sr swap should be quick if you have more help from people who actually knows what they're doing.

[got2b240]

yeah my 2nd redtop was done from 10:00am on a saturday morning and I got finished and driving to the races on sunday around 9:00pm. I stayed up for those 2 days doing the swap with my cousin, but I did sleep a little, I was in the middle of bolting the driveshaft togther again, and I glanced over to him and seen him sleeping on the padded creeper, I proceeded to fall asleep under the car too (it was on jackstands!) I woke up and continued doing the job. A week later vibrations came from under the car frequently, and I realized I didnt tighten that one bolt I was on when I passed out, So it fell out and was making the driveshaft ebb in vibration! WHAT A DUMBASS! LOL

[RMiller]

That's pretty funny. You were probably caressing a wrench in your sleep.

[RobDET]

Mine took 3 weekends. I go slow so i don't forget things. Working on the car is not a race... Racing the car is

[89240]

A shop around the Sacramento area....Evolution said they had a swap done in ONE day. They said the customer dropped off the car at 9 in the morning and they had it done at 6 that night!!! pretty impressive i thought...