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Looking At Doing A Swap

Started by Urban Assault · Jan 31, 2010 · 4postsSMF 2010–26

Urban AssaultJan 31, 2010, 1:43 am · #1

whats up guys im looking at doing the sr20 swap is there anything i should look out for while im doing it or any specal tricks anyone has that could help me out iv been looking at a lot of other peoples swaps and it looks farley simple... well kinda this will be the first nissan iv ever worked on usualy do toyota and a few honda swaps here and there but never a nissan i have an 86 s12 coupe auto and i cant stand the automatic needs to go so any pointers ideas and sone sr20 swap vetrens advise would be a great help thanks everyone

RedneckJan 31, 2010, 4:35 am · #2

Is your signature big enough there? Thing takes up like half my page when I read your posts. As for your swap questions yeah an sr20det swap shouldn't really be much different then a ka24 or dohc ca18 swap in terms of difficulty. The thing that mostly sucks for you is you have an 86 (or Mk1.5) which is the worst year to have in my opinion because it was a transition year for Nissan. This means your wiring is going to be a bit harder to figure out compared to an Mk1 or Mk2 because there is no definitive wiring info for your car because Nissan was not very consistent for the Mk1.5's. For instance one of the bigger differences was earlier Mk1.5's have the B tranny while the later ones tend to have the C tranny. Besides the wiring part I don't really see you having any big issues. I would extensively research the sr20det and garage sections for all the small stuff you might be overlooking that some guys might have been kind enough to have noted in their build threads for you. If you have swapped a fair amount of Toyota and Honda engines I don't think you'll have much difficultly aside from the wiring with this project. Good luck.

XanoJan 31, 2010, 7:56 am · #3

Thats a good point, Urban, you need to read the rules.  It specifically states what size an image in a signature can be.

Urban AssaultFeb 1, 2010, 1:22 am · #4

tanks for the warning i guess i didnt realize the size of my signature it is fixed now and thanks for the info you gave me im gonna try to do it in under a week once the snow melts so we will see how it go's ill post pics on the swap as i go