I’ll just keep my mouth shut on this one…
The mechanic at Swerve did an LSx swap on his brother’s FD.
99civicsi has done this swap.
Super smart fallback plan, even if you pick up a :tif: car, have them go through… if they’ll take it on of course. Mike or Don alike.
It’s worth buying a completed swap if it’s done right. There is a lot of time and effort involved in doing it yourself. And honestly, when you figure in the mods and minor expenses that really add up…the completed swaps are really not more expensive than doing one yourself.
do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it
do it adam!
I understand where you are coming from, completely.
Think of this scenario though. Backyard mechanic Joey Bagadonuts is following instructions to wire his new motor in(let’s just say that he was wiring injectors, for the sake of the exercise). However, on one wire, he just couldn’t use the soldering iron(maybe laziness, maybe just anxious to fire his new street rod up). He half-heartedly twisted some shitty wires together and puts a quick piece of tape on them.
Over time and hard-driven miles, the wires come loose and cause intermittent issues with a fuel injector firing. Then next thing you know, bam, permanent misfire in one cylinder.
Now, if you’re a skilled mechanic, you could probably track this in hours. If not, you take the car to a shop. “Uhhh yeah, it’s a mazda witha a vette motor. Some guy did the swap, not sure what happened.” Do you really think that repair is going to go well?
Idunno, it’s up to the buyer, as to whether he/she wants to take that chance.
There is much less risk though, just buying a decent C5 Z06.
How much would it cost to pay a shop to do this swap? Cost effective? Don’t care about cost?
It would be badass if you find a way to make it work.
Paul at swerve is a good guy, he has helped me in a pinch with my civic. It’s nice to know he would be around incase anything comes up with the swap too.
Agreed to a certain extent. Generally people who perform this swap aren’t “backyard” mechanics. These aren’t $2,000 honda civics with b-series swaps.
The clean examples I’m finding are done correctly. You can tell just by looking at the mod list/vehicle. I think this is a whole different game than your usual swaps.
Personally, I’d like a balance of both. I don’t want to buy a $40,000 LS7 engine, but I certainly don’t want the 85,000 mile LS1.
Just do yourself a favor, and don’t underestimate other people’s stupidity.
That dude with the yellow EVO doesn’t seem like a typical backyard mechanic either, yet he ROYALLY fucked up a friend’s clutch.
Absolutely. I also wouldn’t buy anything without accounting for atleast 1/2 the amount of money spent to fix bugs or make it PERFECT. (EX: Buy a $20k swap…expect up to $10k to make it perfect.)
so why not build it from scratch your way? score a shell and a swap and have someone local build it. why drop 20K on someone elses problem knowing you will have to put another 10K into it to make it your own. build it to your specs from the get go.
+1
You seem to have a “money is no object” attitude, but $30k is a lot of money, and there are some great cars out there in that price range.
They’re pretty siqqqqqq
Not true. I’m still unsure if I want to pull the trigger on this much money for a 15 year old car. Financially, it’s probably retarded. I can imagine doing all of this and in 6 months having the car stolen or totalled. I’d be out THOUSANDS.
I was going to mention this but to each their own. 30K for a 16 y/o toy man??? vette it is IMO. We all know you can think of better ways to spend 30K
Not to mention
NONE of this can really be done on loaned money unless you have an already paid for car you plan to re-finance, or a home equity loan you plan to dip into to.
As much as I enjoy projects, I would 100% be willing to drop the extra money for one that has already been done. LS RX7’s are BADASS…and that one listed several posts up is simply gorgous and looks like it was well put together. I’d glady pay $25k for a turn-key ride than invest $20k and who knows how many months building my own.
I know. I still probably won’t pull the trigger on anything til next year anyways. I’m buying a house (or looking to) and I don’t want the expense of my truck paired with the expense of a “summer” car to dictate what kind of house I can afford. I figure I’ll buy the house and then see how much I have to play with.