What engine swop have you done into your S15?

[jp]

Am posting this just out of curiosity: do many S15 owners do engine-swops? I'm not talking SRs for SRs, I'm wondering have many people on here swopped their SRs for RBs, VQs, etc etc? If so, what reasons have you swopped?

 

[SR2O]

RB26DETT has been done on a few, seen footage of a 2JZ transplant too.

 

[jp]

Yeah, I've seen RB26's in them alright, Tein S15 was amazing! :smitten: I'm wondering if anyone on here's done anything like that with theirs.

Anyone seen a V6 in an S15 at all actually?

 

[japmadlad]

that 2jz coversion is crazy. They had to chop fire wall & move dash back so practically sitting in the back seat. It would give some deadly performance but the weight distribution ( which is what makes the S15 such a great drift car ) would be gone

 

[jp]

Surely if they chopped the firewall etc to move the engine back the weight distribution would have been preserved?

 

[slammedmind]

ive seen a v8 engine in one on one of the us forums ill try find the link. Personally not my thing, it came with the sr20 for a reason braaaaap

 

[j@garagemac]

was helping mr-stevo from driftworks put a 2jz in his s14a lastnight and they are not nearly as heavy as you think or as long only about 6" longer than a sr. cheap power too 2x 2jz for ?1000

 

[jp]

Wow! Both impressive projects!

@ Slammedmind, yeah, if you have the link that'd be great!

@ j, does it not sit very far forward & was there not a lot of bodging to do to get the exhaust to not hit off the brake-master-cylinder etc?

 

[Jerry_c]

Interesting topic!

Yah, is very impressive project how interesting Any more detail about RB26DETT swap in S15?

 

[silv15]

i have a rb25det on my s15

 

[jp]

Where are you based & show us some pics!!!

 

[silv15]

Hi, i live in Peru , but my family is japaneese, ....peru is a third world country so, getting engines and stuff is kinda hard,...first i swaped a rb20det,(my s15 is a spec S, i was looking for sr20det or rb25det ) but i got all the internals from the rb25det so i strocked it to 2.5L

I have a Stand Alone " Haltech e6x".....HKS FMI....nismo 3" downpipe, 3" catback, OS giken multidisc and chrome ally wheel, nismo LSD. 720cc inyectors, etc etc. ill post some pics.

Btw, i know swapping a rb20det wasnt a smart idea...but its hard 2 get parts and engines here , but since its strocked to 2.5...i can say its a rb25det
i have 360 hp and 305hp to the wheels.

 

[silv15]

Hope u guys like it .....there r just 4 silvia s15 in Peru

 

[jp]

Wow! Fair dues man! :thumbs: Any pics?

 

[Jerry_c]

Great!

Hi Silv15, that was great. Ya any picture to show? By the way, is it easy to swap? do you need to modify those mounting and so on?

 

[silv15]

Hi, the swap wasnt that hard, i had 2 modify the gear box and engine mounts....and take out the original sr20de "fan" ( i dont know the word in english) cause i needed all the space posible for the extra 2 cilinders.
Hmm, i also had 2 take off the A/C system...and thats all .

Ill post some pics of the swap asap!!!.

Yoshi

 

[Jerry_c]

Great! Thanks for the info waiting for your picture

 

[silv15]

pics

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/DSC01328.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/Imagen314.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/Imagen309.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/DSC01322.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/Imagen318.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/Imagen293.jpg
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg93/silv15/DSC01318.jpg

Hope u guys like it

 

[Jerry_c]

Thanks for the picture

Oh~~yeah~~!! Same as mine red!! thanks for the photo
any photo after swap RB25DET?

 

[meddler]

that's some interesting work there. hmmm.... RB25/26DET into the silvia... Now there is a weapon