chokeasphyxia

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SR not so much worth doing imo, RB would be interesting, but you could probably do an LSx for the same price.

1vicissitude

Very cool this is a possibility. The other kit a available is laughably expensive. Might I suggest a different engine? Seeing as the company is in CA, the smog **** state, it would seem silly for them to produce a kit that will never pass smog in their own state.

F20c, 1uzfe, 13b, or renesis? Just throwing engine ideas out that come from cars that are FR setup and stateside. Perhaps a FE3 kit for those of us who can't modify oil pans, hack up and reweld intake manifolds, make engine mounts, and make headers? Would keep the engine in the Mazda family, so it would be useful in classes that require sticking to a Mazda engine.

rider384

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I'm with ^^

SR swap is crazy expensive for what it is. An FE3 kit would be ****, I bet it would sell really well.

paNX2K&SE-R

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I'm definitely going with an SR when I build my next Miata but I'll be starting with an NB I think. LS1 swaps are awesome (I'm currently dropping one into my S13) but I'm partial to having an SR powered car around. I've been driving them continuously in various forms since March of '99.

Yep people have been doing them in B15s for about 6 or 7 years now. Travis Burelle down in NOLA (Forced Induction Racing) builds them for customers and some guys up in New England now does them (and recently started doing P11s too). Another guy down in Florida did one in his '99 SE (B14) but that was a one off.

WonTon

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I have even seen a few older maximas with VQ swaps! lol

bayside blue

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give me a bit and ill dig up some of his pics.. he usually doesnt take much but i know he has some of his g20 with a vq swap with a nice gt40r pushing some air into it lol
probably the same guy ill be taking my miata too.. his name is james and owns J&S auto in manchester nh


EDIT: pics of his builds
1991 Nissan Sentra 3 speed Auto
GA16DE 1.6 DOHC cast iron 88hp!

Now...
2005 Maxima VQ35DE
06 Spec-V 4.23 Gears maxima Bell housing
ACT Clutch
Stillen Flywheel (12 Pounds)
350Z Lower Intake Manifold
Kinetix Upper Intake manifold. (not In picture)
E-manage
3 inch Exhaust
Nismo Cold Air Intake
Pathfinder TB.

I'm going to shoot for 260-270 whp and it should weigh in the area of 2350. Should br a fun car.

Future mods are JWT C8 Cams/Springs 1.0 MM over sized valves and fully ported and polished heads. Over all goal is 300 N/A whp



Car: 2002 Infinti G20 Sport , Auto , SR20DE 145HP. First in the world with a VQ35DE-T. Pics below show the begining to current.

Stock with Lower intake bucket removed


2 days later.

Making the turbo manifold. Almost done!

Im getting there!

With engine over.


and heres his sr20det swapped sentra


just found this pic in another folder on his FB

sorry for such large pics. i just coppied and pasted his to make life easier

WonTon

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they are showing up fine on my screen!

shinigami710

Agreed. I did nissan for a few years. Sr's are good motors and a high rev boosted motor would be cool in a miata but with the money you blow on that swap you could do some crazy s**t to a 1.6 or 1.8.

bayside blue

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like what?

ive done some crazy stuff with a 1.8 and the cost per HP is pretty insane. i was just under 10k for my built 2.0 motor and even then i was only looking at 400whp. probably could have made more

an SR with bolt ons, bigger turbo, and cams can handle 400whp. ive even heard of stock block SR's putting down 500whp.

bayside blue

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ya i forgot this site has the auto-resize

1vicissitude

I totally agree here. I guess I just have a different veiw living in CA. I'd rather find a different swap and not have my car impounded. That is why I'd like to see an fe3 swap kit. I'd just say it came from a 95 sportage and be done with it.

WonTon

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I think for the swap to be legit out there the engine has to come from the same year model or newer and it must retain all the factory emissions parts.

curly

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Yes it is cheaper than getting the same power from another engine. But that wasn't his point. Point is it'll cost over $10,000 to swap the engine in and then get to 400hp.

bayside blue

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im shooting to have it running and installed by a shop for about half of that. When i do start my project i will make a build thread for it and document costs

1vicissitude

Yeah, but it has to be an engine from the US market as well. Sr20 is not, and the Ref guys are used to them from all the 240s running around.

Boost_addict

If anybody wants to swap an sr20det, I am parting my build.

https://www.miataturbo.net/showthrea...highlight=Sr20

r808

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Ok. I've never been in a or even heard the sound of a car with a turbo RB engine before. Serious possibly noobish question:





Why?




Why bother swapping in a cast iron anything, as opposed to just a BP with forged internals? Is it because RBs are extremely cheap (as compared to LSx/5.0) swaps? Is it because they sound incredibly awesome or something (this I can understand)? Or is it maybe for RB love? Not asking this to talk you out of anything. Serious question is serious.

nitrodann

Rb25/30 with stock internals will make 450 rwhp, down here is OZ the engines are dirt cheap as are SRs.

For me being in Oz where turbo nissans are everywhere I dont see the appeal to an SR conversion.

Dann

shinigami710

The rb helps out alot with the s13 's notorious understeer. Good power and even weight distro. Plus as you said they sound good but thats just a bonus of the swap.

bayside blue

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i hope you mean rb25/26..

the chance of finding an rb30 is slim to none.