It has begun....

[gomer23]

My RB20DET project that is. Didnt have much time last night, only got battery out and took off the strut tower bar. Tonight I am cutting the exhaust off and drailing fluids and some other stuff to prepare for the KA removeal on saturday. It will be awhile before anything else major gets done but at least I am finally starting. i'll keep you guys up to date with pics if you want. Here are a couple I snapped last night:





I'll have more pics tonight and tomorrow.

Modified by gomer23 at 11:05 PM 9/30/2005
Modified by gomer23 at 6:52 AM 10/18/2005

[MidWest240Collector]

Argh, I want to start my RB20 soon.

BTW, good luck on the swap. I just want to see that car minus that paper weight that is in there now. SOHC KA sucks!

[gomer23]

new pictars:

intake removedradiator and air box gone



and heres another shot i took before I started

got all the oils drained, and A/C compressor removed, then it started getting dark so I called it a night.

Modified by gomer23 at 8:15 PM 9/30/2005

Modified by gomer23 at 11:06 PM 9/30/2005
Modified by gomer23 at 11:08 PM 9/30/2005

[Nameless EJ6]

Lookin good so far! Yea keep posting pics.. we like to see em.

Make some serious progress before your next pics tho. Maybe get the engine being pulled.

Is this your first swap?

[gomer23]

Yea this is my first swap,

[Carl H]

heh, ironicly enough my rb20 s13 was the first engine swap i had ever done....... its not too terribly difficult.but yah make some good progress with the pics, no one likes to see a stock engine bay the without airbox then without fan......... kinda pointless, should be engine --> no engine --> rb.good luck tho, common sense makes life easier.

[SeVa-S13]

Yeah, 20 into 13 was my first swap too. Seems so long ago, ha.

[themadscientist]

no the sequence should be car with KA, then no engine, then bikini pictures of the hot girlfreind then RB in then lingere pictures of the girlfreind then video of the RB running then video of the girlfreind then you let your girlfreind take over your account and hang out with us while you go drive the car

[SeVa-S13]

But make sure she has webcam kthx.

And whipcream.

[rbsileighty]

Be sure you know about your power steering situation before you get to deep... 89-90's need to be converted. Don't forget to pull the fins out of your HICAS part of your PS pump as well... common overlooked things...

Good luck bud

[BoostFab]

nice car, i like the color!

you can use the upper PS lines from a 91+ s13.

[gomer23]

I dont have HICAS though? Or am I misunderstanding something?

And yea I like silver too, too bad there are 2 other 240s here in omaha that are silver and both have RB25 swaps haha. Anyway heres a couple more pics from yesterday.



No more KA for me

hmmm what should I fill this empty space with

[themadscientist]

take the opportunity to scrub down the engine bay and get it lookin purty. The install will look soo much nicer in a clean engine comprtment.

[Yellow4g63]

take the opportunity to scrub down the engine bay and get it lookin purty. The install will look soo much nicer in a clean engine comprtment.

And don't forget to bang out the firewall too.

[gomer23]

take the opportunity to scrub down the engine bay and get it lookin purty. The install will look soo much nicer in a clean engine comprtment.

I started on that yesterday acually. I think I am gonna paint the engine bay silver, I would do black but the other 240s that are silver have black engine bays, so I want to try to so something a little different haha. Unless someone has another color that might be cool I am gonna go with silver.

[MidWest240Collector]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the HICAS only come on 91-93 240sx's.

[rbsileighty]

Be sure you know about your power steering situation before you get to deep... 89-90's need to be converted. Don't forget to pull the fins out of your HICAS part of your PS pump as well... common overlooked things...

Good luck bud

You won't be using a PS pump from a 240 anyway... so it should be pretty clear I ment the PS pump on your RB motor. You will need to convert your lines though. I think SSC has a writeup on this in their project S13 stuff (moving the PS lines)... if I recall.

[gomer23]

Well heres what I got done this weekend (been busy working full time and school full time). Finally got around to cleaning and painting the engine bay. I used High Temp Aluminum paint. Turned out a little shinier than I thought it would but I think it looks pretty decent.

before cleaning

almost done cleaning

after a couple coats of paint

[vg33t]

I used a power steering pump from a 86-88 nissan maxima. Just had to grind off part of the RB pump bracket. I have not ran the lines yet, but It looks like its going to work great.

[gomer23]

So I had a small change in plans. I ended up getting a really good deal on a RB25 motorset so I ordered it on thursday and will have my motor tomorrow. I cant wait til spring now.

[gomer23]

Update 11/17

Heres a few pics of the engine:

[MAXIMUS Nismo]

keep going man. I wish ai were technically minded with cars like some of u guys.But computers is my thing.

I like the painted engine bay, and the 20-25 is not a "little" change in plans.lol