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Engine Swaps

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This forum is to ask questions or enjoy bragging rights about swapping out your stock engine for a more powerful one, be it the same make or from another make of car. This forum is NOT for descriptions of replacing same with same merely to replace a blown up motor. Use the Maintenance & Repair Board for that kind of swap.
 


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Re: engine swaps [trackwrex] by qbrozen
Jan 23, 2007 (7:58 am)
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Replying to: trackwrex (Jan 22, 2007 5:05 pm)

i'd like to know more about that crx/nsx swap. that HAS to be on the internet somewhere, no? If not, it SHOULD be.
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isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s by jtdesigns
Feb 03, 2007 (10:02 pm)
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any solid info on the rodeo to chevy v8 swap? any advice, exprence very welcomed and needed
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Re: engine swaps [qbrozen] by jtdesigns
Feb 03, 2007 (10:06 pm)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Jan 23, 2007 7:58 am)

hondas are prob the most easy to swap motors in. you can pretty much swap heads on them to! preludes are well known for the h22 swap and this link here shows a guy swaping a lt1 corvette engine into a lude. he took the rear out of a rx7 and well see 4 yourself http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1645997&page=1
 
freakin awesome!!
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Re: engine swaps [jtdesigns] by qbrozen
Feb 06, 2007 (12:36 pm)
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Replying to: jtdesigns (Feb 03, 2007 10:06 pm)

I still find that probably easier than the nsx/crx swap, though. Only due to the engine/tranny(or transaxle) layout. A 'lude, vette, and RX are all front engine RWD, for instance. So I'm really curious to see how much was done to a FWD CRX to accomodate a mid-engine RWD powertrain.
 
Not that your link wasn't appreciated. don't get me wrong.
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [jtdesigns] by qbrozen
Feb 06, 2007 (12:37 pm)
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Replying to: jtdesigns (Feb 03, 2007 10:02 pm)

I really just have to ask .... WHY???
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [qbrozen] by paisan
Feb 06, 2007 (12:40 pm)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Feb 06, 2007 12:37 pm)

Why not? Obviously you have never offroaded or you wouldn't ask that question. The Rodeo has a great chassis for offroading being that it can get down trails that larger full-size trucks can't. You can swap in a 350 Chevy, put in a solid front and rear axle with lockers and you are in good shape for just about any offroad excursion out there. Seen it done, ridden in a few trucks like that. More common is the 4.3L Chevy swap into an Amigo/Rodeo chassis as the 4.3L engines are pretty abundent.
 
-mike
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [paisan] by qbrozen
Feb 06, 2007 (12:43 pm)
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Replying to: paisan (Feb 06, 2007 12:40 pm)

I have off-roaded (although i don't see why one would have to do this to recognize the virtues of putting a lot of time and money into modding a historically undesirable vehicle) ... never with a Rodeo, though.
 
I guess it is personal preference. There are just so many other places I would put my time and money, that's all. A 350-powered Jeep CJ, for instance.
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [qbrozen] by paisan
Feb 06, 2007 (12:50 pm)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Feb 06, 2007 12:43 pm)

Isuzus are known the world around as great offroaders. The Trooper is on Peterson's all-time top 10 offroad vehicles.
 
The Isuzu Rodeo was the highest selling import SUV in 1992-94.
 
There is a very very loyal following of Isuzu offroaders. Don't hate what you've never tried.
 
-mike
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [qbrozen] by paisan
Feb 06, 2007 (12:52 pm)
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Replying to: qbrozen (Feb 06, 2007 12:43 pm)

As for time and money, most of the guys I know who have done it fab everything themselves. These are hard-core machinists. Heck we've been known to have welders at the Uwharrie campsite welding up diffys on Jeeps, Toyotas, Isuzus at some of our Isuzu events.
 
-mike
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Re: isuzu rodeo v8 swap???'s [paisan] by qbrozen
Feb 07, 2007 (6:44 am)
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Replying to: paisan (Feb 06, 2007 12:52 pm)

that just means more time than money. I have a welder in my garage that never gets used because I, unfortunately, don't have the time. I think that is why I'm so picky about my projects. If it is not exactly what I want or need, I'm not going to bother.
 
I'm a bit surprised to hear that about Troopers. I know the old ones had a fairly good rep mechanically ... but due to the deteriorating bodies, I would never have thought them worth saving. My Uncle always swore by them back in the day ... but when the new style came out in the late '90s and his got to the point that duct tape could no longer hold the body together, he moved on. Speaking of the newer style, my mom had a '98. After its 3rd tranny in 60k miles, they got rid of it.
 
Kinda like my history with Toyota. Back in the day of the 22R and RE, they were quite rugged and capable. But once the body gave out, and it inevitably did, that was all she wrote.

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