MSpeedRacer
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Hey I dont know where to put this but i have a Mazda3, and an rx7 but my buddy has a 3.5MSP and a Ls Teg. Anyone done an LS/Vtec swap before we need some help so we can use it for his winter beater.
Hey I dont know where to put this but i have a Mazda3, and an rx7 but my buddy has a 3.5MSP and a Ls Teg. Anyone done an LS/Vtec swap before we need some help so we can use it for his winter beater.
yes, done a ls/vtec before. It makes good power, but its not really realiable.
ahh gotcha i figure i am going to spend the extra couple buck and shotpeen the rods and such and the main failing part is the rod bolts just have to replace them with arp stuff along with the head bolts
just curious what transmissions you guys used in the ls/vtec swaps?
Most people swap it and not build the internals, cuz the swap is relatively cheap compared to a full motor swap. And you are right about the rods. For me the piston rod smashed through my block and pretty much destroyed it. It gave me incredible power in my civic hatch, but I eventually just swapped in Gsr in my hatch, but then it got stolen.
just curious what transmissions you guys used in the ls/vtec swaps?
yeah makes sense it is pretty cheap to just throw a vtec head on a engine somebody has laying around. My rods are being sent out to be smoothed, shot peened, compressed, balanced, and have the arp rod bolts installed. Getting b16B P30 pistons .25 over with molycoated skirts and ceramic coated domes. Block is getting bored .25 over with arp main and head studs and a moroso oil pan with gsr water pump and oil pump. Not really skimping out in too many places but i am also not go rediculous high dollar with this either.
my friend has a 97 rs, so this pretty interesting stuff to me.
ive heard people switch out the gsr 5th gear with the LS 5th gear for highway cruising. are you going to do this? after all it is somewhat of a daily driver, and itd suck to be doing 65 on the freeway at 4K rpm in 5th gear lol
Most of the time a lot of people or machine shops don't put this swap together right and get oil and coolant leaks. What car are you swapping this into?
I was thinking about doing an ls swap for my 00 civic. But will probably just do a gsr or b16 swap instead.