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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Has anyone swapped a Japanese motor?

« on: May 02, 2007, 07:24:11 PM »

To some people it does. For the street, I don't want to be revving to 8k everytime just to get it going. I would rather have a good broadband hp/torque band on the streets even if it means sacrificing some ponies. I also don't want a peaky motor where I'll only achieve peak hp within a 400rpm range.

Broadband power is why a lot of people buy European cars when it comes to the power department. Something a lot of the smaller Japanese cars don't exhibit on na motors.

I agree, but In strict math terms HP is the final ruling when it comes to accelaration,

I like a peaky motor, i.e builds up to a final scream, I hate revving hard and feel the torque build up take a nose dive and the car falls flat on it´s face

Also, with the right trans and diff gearing you would never be the wiser to what rpms you are at unless from the noise or tacho,
Well you get what I´m saying

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Has anyone swapped a Japanese motor?

« on: May 02, 2007, 04:34:58 AM »

I´m just talking in general,
if you have a HP spread from 200-500hp, does it matter at what rpms?
or what torque is at those rpms?

No it does not ,

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Has anyone swapped a Japanese motor?

« on: May 01, 2007, 05:57:59 AM »

torque isn´t a concern neither are rpm´s
just look at the HP curve and then adjust the final gearing to accomidate,
i.e 200hp in a 3000lbs at about 40mph should be fine, and then 65mph and so on

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: May 01, 2007, 05:55:35 AM »

Are you reffering to me?
If so I belive I posted everything needed to know in the first page

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 30, 2007, 06:07:09 PM »

Well whatever you do you have at least tested and tried more solutions then most ever will and thats some good home schooling

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Has anyone swapped a Japanese motor?

« on: April 30, 2007, 06:06:17 PM »

I´ll be pushing out about 300-330hp from the CA18DET
the engine will be TOTALLY rebuilt, new clutch and plate, flywheel as well,
new turbo kit, standalone, new exhaust, new intercooler setup,
new this and new that, gasket set

the total cost looks to be around $5k for the WHOLE swap including buying the engine having it rebuilt and everything else I listed,
about $6.4k for the whole car, new suspension, this engine conversion, new wheels, tires, complete set of powerflex bushings,

Now that is a nice bargain for about 1200kg´s and 300hp.
thats 220kw´s and 2666lbs , ALL NEW. almost.
I´m saying 1200kg´s as I´m not sure what the weight will be , but a
M42 E30 weighs about 2550lbs(1150kg)

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 30, 2007, 08:47:23 AM »

That is odd,
do you have the correct mode on in the global settings,
the SMT might be thinking your AFM is a Frequency MAF unit

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Member Profiles / Abrax

« on: April 27, 2007, 06:47:06 AM »

Nice work,
wish I had a handy sandblaster like that

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Swaps, Turbos, Buildups / Has anyone swapped a Japanese motor?

« on: April 26, 2007, 06:25:58 PM »

I´m doing a CA18DET swap as we speak,
total rebuild of the engine, new turbo stuff, engine management,
new bushings ,
total will be less then $5k running at 300hp or so,

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 26, 2007, 06:24:13 PM »

I used a 3.5bar sensor , same sensor as used for some nuclear stuff,
I got if from Zeitronix,

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 26, 2007, 04:52:29 AM »

It looked very smooth, altough I did notice MAP really is inline with TPS movement, those curves where almost identical,

you must remember that MAP and TPS are quicker to respond then the AFM,
so if the AFM signal looks to be behind that only means that you´ll see better throttle response afterwards when the fuel is squirted sooner.

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Suspension / weitec suspension kit

« on: April 25, 2007, 04:26:59 AM »

Weitec is good, I have that with some coilover conversion springs,
Weitec is owned by KW if that tells you anything,.

Email me and I can get you the spring rates on a specific kit you are interested in

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 25, 2007, 04:25:25 AM »

Can´t help you there,
I didn´t need to log all that much, just messed with the voltages and after a while both the bars where overlapping eachother,

to bad I never got around to test drive it like that

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Engine management / M42 Engine management maps and info

« on: April 24, 2007, 05:33:00 PM »

what you are supposed to do is try and get as close as you can,
after that you can drive the car and re adjust,

Why those look like that I can´t tell,

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Engine + Driveline / Stand-Alone Guys/Tuners...have a question.

« on: April 24, 2007, 05:39:43 AM »

I can easily run 16-17´s under cruising load,
that is also what my M42 did before I installed the standalone