ka24e-de head swap- can i use the frontier timing chain cover?

[bounty212]

im plannin on doing an e to de head swap... does anyone know if the frontier timing chain cover will work or do i have to fab up some sheetmetal to close the gap between the covers?Does anyone here have a running ka with the head swap?

[DjPantsSpecR]

people piss and moan enough about converting an e to a de doing just a headswap with 240sx parts, i'm not sure anyone round here is badass enough to have pulled off a frontier head on an e block...

if you physically have the parts you should be able to tell right away, but i'm assuming you dont?

[deviousKA]

ka24de frontier timing cover will only fit frontier block. It could be slightly modified to fit onto a sohc block but will offer no advantages as far as mating to a dohc head is concerned (assuming your wanting to use a 240sx head). You would still have to do the same amount of fab work.

Now if you were to use a frontier head, that would be a different story in the modification department (closing the gap). The frontier cover would still yeild little advantage and you would want to use the sohc cover (easier).

*NOTE: Frontier ka24de has sohc style oil pump/distributor (slim upper/lower), just because it is ka24de does not mean it will mate the 240sx de head to the sohc block.