5 More days till i wet my pants !!!

[Jay!]

Originally posted by morpheusxiii
Hmm... not to be demeaning, but Nissan uses the SR20 for the majority of its well-known autos like the Silvia, or 180SX. The SR20DET was initially designed for front-mounted, rear wheel-drive chassi, succeeding the CA18DET. Therefore, fitting an SR20 into an S2000 would be a piece of cake. But why would anybody? The S2000's Honda F20C is a wonder in itself--no point in jacking around with a good thing...

No sweat, man. That cars that I associate with the SR are the Sentra SE-R, G20, and (U.S.) 200SX. (they're all FF, right?) I guess I had always assumed that all the Silvias were KAs. I guess I better go read more about Nissans...

[Morpheus XIII]

SEE?! This is precisely what Nissan enthusiasts are always jabbering about... Such ignorance from the heads at Nissan for not allowing the 240SX to have the SR. Too many still don't know about the S13/14s great potential in becoming a powerful all around sports car.

Food for thought: IF the U.S's 240SX did get the SR20DET, would the name remain to be the same? It would then have to be called 200SX (as in the U.K.) but that would clash with the other 200SX. Hypothetically, it would probably be too weird to bring the S15 here, powered by an SR20, and call it the 200SX. The '95+ 200SX would still be in the public's memory (or not, considering how low sales were).

What would you call the S15 (besides Silvia), if it made it here?

[Jay!]

So the KA engine is NAmerica only? That's pretty dumb! I went back and consulted my J-spec source (GT2 ) and yeah, they do say that every Silvia had some type of SR.

My question is... How hard is it to convert a U.S.-spec 240SX with the KA to a J-spec Silvia with an SR, especially an SR20DET? Can you even get an SR20DET around here? Does the stuff bolt right in, or did they totally screw up the guts of the car when they sold it here?

While Nissan may know how to build cars well, they sure don't know how to sell them well.

[Morpheus XIII]

And the answer is: the KA24DE/SR20DET swap is one of the easiest to perfom, simply because the engine/tranny combo was originally designed FOR the S13/14s. The number of shops that will do this transplant (and availability of parts) is growing, due to the increasing demand for original J-spec parts in North America (a.k.a. JDM--I hate this acronym).

Enthusiasts seem to be FINALLY moving away from the NADM (hah, I just made that term up right now!) "import scene", and are actually beginning to obtain more and more genuine parts from the land of the rising sun.

Getting back to the case of the missing engine, the SR bolts in with fair ease. The only difficult tasks include rewiring the ECU, and clearing/relocating a few engine components to make room for the steering column. However both of these custom chores aren't really all that hard. Prices for the job can range from $2000-$5000 (depending on the SR's year, mileage, with/w/o installation, included pieces), most generally including the used motor with low-fair mileage, factory turbo, and SR wiring harness (which needs to be adapted to the KA's, as mentioned above).

I, for one, give this modification the thumbs-up simply because of the high power yield and excellent future potential (SR20DET blocks are nearly bulletproof from the factory), for the cost of an average turbocharger kit.

[VTEC V6]

that supra was sold on ebay for like $121,000 somethin like that

and now the integra from the movie is on sale, it just has basic bolt ons and its goin for $35,000 on ebay

[Morpheus XIII]

That's funny, the Integra is owned by my girlfriend's friend's friend. He's seen every now and then at the weekly Ontario Mills midnight run.

For $121,000 I could build THREE carbon copy replicas of that Supra with money to spare.

Or buy ONE Motorex Blackbird!

[Jay!]

Originally posted by morpheusxiii
...the weekly Ontario Mills midnight run.

I live near there. I got a kick out of how the Ontario (CA) police were putting sound bytes on the news radio about how they were cracking down on street racing and they'd be enforcing a "zero-tolerance" policy, blah, blah, blah...

So, I made it a point to go see the movie at Ontario Mills.