Yet another SR Swap Progress Post :)

[DORIMON]

After delaying my swap for about 5 months due to finishing school and working a new full-time schedule, today is the day my KA was finally pulled thanks to Jonathan "cIvIcKILLA240style". Day 1 (2/17/04), we started pulling off all the KA engine parts and had everything ready for day 2 (today) where the KA was pulled. Here is my list of SR parts, and some pics of the progress. Thursday (2/26/04) should be the day the redtop will go in.

Used S13 Red-Top SR20DET Motor/T-25 Turbo/ECU/Tranny/Coil Packs - $1600 shipped
Used Full S13 SR Uncut Harness - $445.00 shipped
Used SR Ignitor Chip - $135.00 shipped
Used SR MAF Sensor - $71.00 shipped
Used S13 SR Rubber Turbo Intake Hose - $50.00 shipped
Used SR Alternator (installed) - $50.00 shipped
Used SR Starter (installed) - $50.00 shipped
SR Crank Angle Sensor (installed) - $120.00
SPEC Stage 3 6-Puck Clutch (installed) - $320.00 shipped
Greddy Turbo Extension Pipe (installed) - $215.00
SR Water Pump (installed) - $130.00
Radiator/Heater Hoses, Copper Spark Plugs, Drive/PS Belts, Oil/Fuel Filters (installed) - $138.00
Nismo Thermostat (installed) - $80.00
Greddy Oil Pan (installed) - $270.00 shipped
Heavy Throttle Custom Stainless Downpipe - $159.00
Heavy Throttle Straightpipe - $99.00
Nismo Motor & Tranny Mounts Installed) - $215.00
HKS SMF Intake - $76.00 shipped
HKS SSQV - $193.00 shipped
Hotpipe with HKS SSQV welded flange - $140.00 shipped
Blitz LM S13 SR Front Mount Intercooler - $820.00 shipped
HKS Type-0 Turbo Timer (Black) - $82.00 shipped
HKS Turbo Timer S14 Harness - $29.99
Flex-a-lite Dual 12" Electric Fans - $229.00
Koyo Aluminum Radiator - $350.00
Odyssey Slim Battery - $81.00
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump - $95.00 shipped

The day (9/12/03) I received my motor from my team's online shop, www.thespeedfactor.com.



Misc. SR parts


Blitz LM FMIC with slightly polished piping, and HKS SSQV hotpipe


SR Preparation: new belts, spark plugs, alternator, water pump, oil filter, CAS, heater hoses, Trust Turbo Extension, SPEC Stage 3 Clutch



Me (on the left) and Jonathan "cIvIcKILLA240style" just finsihing up installing the Trust oil pan and standing the motor on a tire.


KA parts removed and motor ready to be pulled.


Bumper support cut and Blitz intercooler core test fitting.


Jonathan (cIvIcKILLA240style) repositioning the chain and prying the motor off the motor mount for KA pull.



Me doing a JDM pose, and then sitting in the engine bay, hehe. (bad quality, forgot the flash)



Dirty engine bay, and the end of day 2.




More pics to come....

[TiNMAN]

damn, thats like everything on a christmas wishlist. lol, keep us updated, looks good so far...hmph?

[Bryants95240sx]

i added all that stuff up came out to about $6,242 that about right ?

[TiNMAN]

hot diggity damn!

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by Bryants95240sx

i added all that stuff up came out to about $6,242 that about right ?

Yea its something like that, also add another $250 + shipping due to Heavy Throttle S13 > S14 harness rewiring.

[TiNMAN]

when is it gonna be up and running? which parts still need to be installed?

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by TiNMAN

when is it gonna be up and running? which parts still need to be installed?

Well, as soon as Heavy Throttle sends back my rewired harness which is like 2-3 weeks from yesterday, I will actually fire it up. I still need to actually drop the redtop in and install the rest of the parts on my list that haven't been labeled (installed) yet. Tonight I'm going to try to clean up the engine bay a little bit so Thursday we can drop it in. All I can say is, Jonathan is the "Silvia Master", hehe.

[DRFT]

wow looking good so far, btw whats the progress with the kouki bumper on the zenki front end? im sure after its all done your car is gonna be hot!

[TiNMAN]

hey if you wanna do a complete kouki conversion, i have the right fender, right headlight, right corner light and grille. lol, your pockets already have holes in em, but hey just pm if interested. peace out!

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by DRFT

wow looking good so far, btw whats the progress with the kouki bumper on the zenki front end? im sure after its all done your car is gonna be hot!

Thanks, I actually tried the JDM Kouki bumper on the Zenki front-end and it didn't line up at all with the fenders. So one day after the swap I'll get around to converting the whole front-end.

Originally Posted by TiNMAN

hey if you wanna do a complete kouki conversion, i have the right fender, right headlight, right corner light and grille. lol, your pockets already have holes in em, but hey just pm if interested. peace out!

Hehe, sorry man, like you said, I'm broke as hell right now. I'll have to start saving some more money up and by then I doubt you'll still have your parts available, but when the time comes around, I'll let you know.

[s14xman]

wow that shiet is hot, me likey!!! Can't wait to see it done!

[mixxamike]

Please make sure you paint your engine bay before you drop your new motor in. It's so dissapointing seeing immaculate engines in a shit hole of an engine bay.

If you can't paint it, spend some serious time in there degreasing, scrubbing, and degreasing some more. Get in those tight spaces, you'll thank yourself later when you have your SWEET enging sitting pretty in a squeaky clean engine bay!!!

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by mixxamike

Please make sure you paint your engine bay before you drop your new motor in. It's so dissapointing seeing immaculate engines in a shit hole of an engine bay.

If you can't paint it, spend some serious time in there degreasing, scrubbing, and degreasing some more. Get in those tight spaces, you'll thank yourself later when you have your SWEET enging sitting pretty in a squeaky clean engine bay!!!

Oh definetely, I won't repaint it, but it will get a good degreasing.

[deltrr]

im sad i want that ):

[RedSuns]

so far everything has gone very smooth for the swap...just waiting on a few misc parts that was holding us back. On thursday we plan on dropping in the SR and then hooking up all of the accessories such as Power steering,cooling and the FMIC.We still have to do the fuel pump(which I HATE).Once we get the harness back I have good faith that this will be a strong running SR.

[TiNMAN]

good stuff, keep us updated. take pics too! visuals are the best

[RedSuns]

Originally Posted by TiNMAN

good stuff, keep us updated. take pics too! visuals are the best

i keep forgetting to upload the pics i took with my camera

[kazuo]

Originally Posted by mixxamike

Please make sure you paint your engine bay before you drop your new motor in. It's so dissapointing seeing immaculate engines in a shit hole of an engine bay.

Who cares, its not a show car and hes not trying to win a beauty contest.

If the motor runs well and reliably.. who cares how dirty the engine bay is? It's gonna get dirty anyways. :P

IMHO...

[RedSuns]

well it is just one of those thing to make the entire swap look better

[DORIMON]

Day 3 of my SR swap...

cleaned engine bay



SR going in



SR finally in (getting it on the motor mounts was a bitch!)



Blitz LM FMIC & Koyo radiator installed, and the end of day 3




What sucks is I noticed that my Enjuku Racing HKS SSQV Hotpipe didn't line up with the piping of my fmic, I have about 2 weeks to find out what we're going to do, we were thinking maybe we could cut the hole a little bit bigger towards the rear and try to bend the ic piping back to meet the hotpipe. We'll find out next Tuesday.



More pics still to come...

[adey]

looks like the enjuku unit may have been designed with thet stock SMIC in mind.

Are you able to angle the IC piping (ic side) towards the firewall a little bit more? If so, you might be able to use some somewhat flexible samco hosiery/piping...
Did you hook up the heater lines and stuff, or did you decide to get rid of it altogether?
Looking good so far!

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by adey

looks like the enjuku unit may have been designed with thet stock SMIC in mind.

Are you able to angle the IC piping (ic side) towards the firewall a little bit more? If so, you might be able to use some somewhat flexible samco hosiery/piping...
Did you hook up the heater lines and stuff, or did you decide to get rid of it altogether?
Looking good so far!

Yea, we were thinking of angling it a little bit more towards the firewall and cut the factory hole a little bit bigger and see if it lines up, if we don't find another solution by Tuesday, then we might go with that. I'm actually posting in the tech forum if anyone else has this problem. I used the heater hoses that Heavy Throttle supplied in their EZ Install Kit. Everything is actually looking really clean.

[starfireS14]

Congrats man the Blitz LM FMIC is a beast very nice. Sad to say i'll be leaving the 240sx and going to SC300 soon but it was fun while it lasted. Hey Benji your new signature should say "Get Boost or go home a loser"

[MannyG]

I love the ghetto motor stand!

[Muzzy]

yea thats on pimp engine stand u got there!!

[crioten]

what did you use to clean the engine bay? it came out pretty damn good looking...

[DORIMON]

Hehe, who needs an engie stand when you have spare tire lying around. I used some generic Advance Auto Parts engine degreaser in a spray can, let it soak in the engine bay for about 15 minutes and then sprayed everything with a garden hose and dried everything with terry towels. I then used some more terry towels with some Simple Green degreaser to get the leftover crap. Came out ok, there were some parts that seemed to just be discolored.

[focused]

Nice parts... I'm in the process of pretty much the same swap. I'm about to pull the KA out of my s14 and put a redtop in. What're you doing with your wiring?

[DORIMON]

Originally Posted by focused

Nice parts... I'm in the process of pretty much the same swap. I'm about to pull the KA out of my s14 and put a redtop in. What're you doing with your wiring?

I went ahead and sent my harnesses out to Yuri at Heavy Throttle. I should get them back in like 2 weeks. I know I could've saved liked $268 by doing it myself, but I didn't want to be cheap after spending a lot already on the swap, plus I know its being done right.

[DORIMON]

Day 4

Cutting of the bumper


front-end reinstalled


Stock and Walbro fuel pump comparison


Waiting for rewired harness (1-2 weeks)