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bbs114 · 10-26-2006, 11:51 PM

There are so many factors when choosing a car, most will rely on your own personal opinion and amount of money you wish to spend. If you are actually going to use this car for auto-x and you want to be competitve you might want to rethink your direction, any swap will put you in a street modified class and if you're going to do a full cage and everything I don't know what class you would be in you can look it up at the SCCA website anyway these classes usually have some sick cars like lotus super sevens and other things so it'll be hard to win, except there aren't as many competitors which can be good or bad whatever you think. Anyway I would start with an s14 chassis because they are stiffer, the weight is a little higher but you can trim it down, not to mention s14 usually has less rust. Also s14 can fit much wider tires without major body work than s13. If not s14 because of cost/availability reasons, than s13 coupe its lighter and stiffer than the hatch. As for the engine SR is lighter and easier swap but doesn't have the low and mid range torque of an RB which can be useful in auto-x. But the RB and AWD system would add a lot of weight up front, and ruin the car's balance, you would also need to heavily strengthen the chassis in the front to not only handle the weight but the power that it will be forced to support. I feel like this way would be really expensive. If you're thinking of crazy swaps maybe an s14 LS1, 2, or 7 would be fun, you would definitely have low end torque but probably wouldn't be able to put it down. I suggest s14 with an SR, find a good spooling turbo, if you can make a manifold and get a dual scroll turbo that would be sweet eliminate like all lag too. Check this car out http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/v/d...s/bill240_001/. I think a Miata SR or RX7 LS1 or SR would be pretty good too. I have also seen a VQ go into an s14 before, there are tons of options if you want to get crazy and custom a lot of things. Anyway good luck man, keep up the good work. I'm in the Army Reserve so I'm sure I'll be over there soon too. Hope I helped, Peace.

10-26-2006, 11:51 PM	#11
bbs114 Leaky Injector Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Rockville, MD Age: 40 Posts: 143 Trader Rating: (4)	There are so many factors when choosing a car, most will rely on your own personal opinion and amount of money you wish to spend. If you are actually going to use this car for auto-x and you want to be competitve you might want to rethink your direction, any swap will put you in a street modified class and if you're going to do a full cage and everything I don't know what class you would be in you can look it up at the SCCA website anyway these classes usually have some sick cars like lotus super sevens and other things so it'll be hard to win, except there aren't as many competitors which can be good or bad whatever you think. Anyway I would start with an s14 chassis because they are stiffer, the weight is a little higher but you can trim it down, not to mention s14 usually has less rust. Also s14 can fit much wider tires without major body work than s13. If not s14 because of cost/availability reasons, than s13 coupe its lighter and stiffer than the hatch. As for the engine SR is lighter and easier swap but doesn't have the low and mid range torque of an RB which can be useful in auto-x. But the RB and AWD system would add a lot of weight up front, and ruin the car's balance, you would also need to heavily strengthen the chassis in the front to not only handle the weight but the power that it will be forced to support. I feel like this way would be really expensive. If you're thinking of crazy swaps maybe an s14 LS1, 2, or 7 would be fun, you would definitely have low end torque but probably wouldn't be able to put it down. I suggest s14 with an SR, find a good spooling turbo, if you can make a manifold and get a dual scroll turbo that would be sweet eliminate like all lag too. Check this car out http://www.dentsport.com/gallery/v/d...s/bill240_001/. I think a Miata SR or RX7 LS1 or SR would be pretty good too. I have also seen a VQ go into an s14 before, there are tons of options if you want to get crazy and custom a lot of things. Anyway good luck man, keep up the good work. I'm in the Army Reserve so I'm sure I'll be over there soon too. Hope I helped, Peace.