Originally Posted by Teck-9
Thank you alleuro. Will the rest of you leave my reasons alone, will anybody please just tell me more about the swap. I will never get a V8 because they are heavy and overpriced. Rudy gets 20K to put in a V8. TVT quoted me 1200-1600, but theyre too far away. A 230 K engine can be bought for 1300 and modded to have more power than the 320 could ever hope to be modded to.
Sorry but that is ridiculous. If you think a shop can do it for less than 10k you're nuts. There is 40-50 hours of wiring and other misc things that need to be done on these cars and you're talking about going from one gen ECU to another. That means everything has to be re-pinned and you have to pour over schematics and diagrams to determine where all the wires go because there is no conversion for dummies book at your local library. You know how long it takes to put new ends on 100+ wires and then make sure they all end up in the right place? I hate telling people that it can't be done because anything can happen if you have the time, money and patience but you're lacking two of the three prerequisites. Best advice I can give you is take your car and trade it in for something that better fits your needs. I'm sorry to say this as I wouldn't want anyone to get rid of these awesome little cars but at some point, you have to realize that this might not be the platform for you to do your modding on.