if this is true how come i see red tops in s14 240’s and in other vehicles 95 ^
I dont think swapping in a CA is the best idea. Theres nothing wrong with CA’s at all, they are great engines with great potential. BUT… The SR20 is a little easier with the aftermarket support just growing, and now more and more SR20 powered cars are flooding in, and when they crash, that means parts for your engine if you need em. Plus to try and get something as simple as an aftermarket clutch for a CA and you may be in for a wait. Plus the SR does make a little more power, and if your saying both are the same price, than why pay the same for less??? And when people say the SR is aluminum can trash, they are obviously just a afraid of seing one out on the track or street about to show em how its done. (Plus can you push 600+ hp out of a can???)
if you want an iron block 2 litre with a bottom end that will never blow up, swap in a 4g63t and call it day 
(it would make my day to see a 4g63 mounted 90 degrees from normal!)
im not going to swap in a mitsubishi motor, im not trying to push 600hp, im just looking for what motor is going to be the most reliable, with light modding, in the long run. So far it looks like the costs are the sameinitially, but no one tells me about the longevity. Now yes i drive my car hard sometimes , and sometimes i pussy foot it. I have just spend way to much money this year fixing little thigns that break or go wrong, but i would like to swap a new to me motor in because i have heard some horror stories about the guy who owned the car before me.
I was just joking about the 4g63. If you don’t mind me asking, who swapped in your motor? Also, if you’re going to swap in a new motor, why not drive that one till it blows up? (unless you’re planning on selling that one)
the motor runs fine, its just that i stripped the threads in the head for the exhaust manifold stud, It just needs to be helicoiled not a big deal. I want to swap the motor because its less down time for me without my car. If i was going to pull the head off i would send it to the machine shop and get decked and checked for leaks and such and i wouldn’t feel good about putting it back on a block that hasn’t had the same amount of work done to it.
Autodream swapped in the motor for the previous owner, but he didn’t pony up the $$ to get stuff done right, and me being in a hurry to buy one of these cars didn’t take a good look at it untill it was to late, so when i bought it and started looking in to it closley he has done alot of work himself that i have then paid for to get right.
aluminum block … checked for a warped head AND block
thats what im getting at. I wouldn’t just take the head off and have the stud re-machined. to do it right it means taking the entire motor out and getting both the block and the head , and its just easier to swap in a new motor. does everyone now understand?
^^ sucks but yeah.
An SR can be plenty reliable. Swap another long block in, if there is major damage to yours at the moment. Otherwise keep driving.
An SR can be plenty reliable. Swap another long block in, if there is major damage to yours at the moment. Otherwise keep driving.[/quote]
keep driving while pricing out both engines and jump on a good deal … if it lasts you till winter then even better time to swap … rather than in the middle of summer and waste all that driving time
not to mention taking apart the entire bottom end, then you might as well just rebuild the entire engine. I say get an sr (i love ca’s but since you already have an sr, it would just make your life a lot easier) rebuild that sr over the summer and swap it in during the fall or before it gets cold if your garage isnt heated. Then during the winter you will have an extra engine to toy with and a car you can drive and have fun with