Spring break KA swap (warning 56Kers)

[Bbandit]

Yes yes so we swapped my old 91 KA (171k+drinks oil too much) with a lower mielage 95 KA... since im going ka-t soon.
Took us 2 days total.
the swap went smooth and was actually pretty straight forward.
along the way, we decided to junk the emission stuff...
well pictures can tell you the story better...
here ya go


4 hours after we started.


notice the emission crap? we junked em...
we went from that... to only 3 vacuum lines:
1 is for FPR vacuum line, and the other 2 went into the charcoal canister. thats it. say bye bye to emissions.


we took off the intake manifold on both KA. this is a picture we took from the 91 upper intake manifold.. we couldnt figure out why they put that butterfly thingy inside of the manifold....
the solution? we used the s14 upper intake manifold (s14 upper intake manifold doesnt have that butterfly thingy. i guess if they ditched it in the later model, then its better without it)


8 hours later.. the s14 KA was ready to be dropped back into my car.
my buddy's wife was making sure that we got all of the tranny bolts tightened.


next day: the swap is done. timed it, fill it up with oil and coolant. and off i went driving around.


240_keyy's white hatch (SR, 14psi) in the back ground.

I am now one step closer to ka-t. I just have to wait for the JWT ECU (i sent the ecu 2 weeks ago) to come in and I can go ahead and put everything together.

the KA runs smooth... we did a compression test and we got 170-165-165-165.
I can also feel an extra ~10rwhp gain (according to my butt dyno) throughout the powerband in this KA.

i will post more stuff when the ka-t is done... soon

conclusion:
s14 block and head
s14 upper intake manifold
s13 lower intake manifold
s13 exhaust manifold
no emmissions
only 3 vacuum hoses
s13 distributor