Guest tha-Zic Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 wanting to swap out my 85 300zx n/a motor, i am on an budget on what i want to spend on it so i have limites of what motors. many say go with an vg30t, but most would have high milage. i think the sr20 would be to much, for my budget but i have looked into the ka24-turbo motors. what motor would you recommand for swapping out, i do not want to spend more than 1000-1500$ would it be possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfreer85 Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Well if you can find an SR20DET for that price you let me know. Unless you have an immense wealth in fabrication skills and tons of parts laying around to put it nicely you'd be very very hard pressed to perform an engine swap of any kind for that price. Most swaps on average run close to 3000 for a bare bone swap and way upwards I think Jamie T's skyline swap is close to 12k in parts alone. Look a little more into it and you will either need to look into increasing your budget or figure out something to work with the 300ZX motor you have now, cause 1500 isn't going to cut it to make any beneficial improvement. Now I'd recommend an NA KA24 just for initial cost of the investment, you can get them for cheap then later turbo. I recommend that just for a pure budget build. A turbo system for you current motor from the junkyard could work out well until you run it to the ground. I just don't see you doing very much with that budget though (not saying it can't be done). Search a lot, and you'll find out a lot of great information. Tyson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtcookson Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 personally i'd turbo the stock n/a motor. the higher compression would make it quite a bit more fun not to mention more powerful and it would most likely get better gas mileage compared to the turbo engine. oh yeah, the VG is slightly lighter than the KA from what i've seen. the KA is a good engine... but the VG is a lot better, especially since its lighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave88SS Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 NA -> turbo swap: http://www.redz31.com/pages/turbo.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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