Do i really have an s4 t2 motor on a s5 t2 car
doing an s4 wiring swap in a s5 is a bitch! i know..... i did it!
i bought a 88 t2....and swapped EVERYTHING (every wire, risistor, fuse panal...motor, drivetrain) the 88 was a shell when i was done (minus the interior..mines black, so i kept it) it took me a week to rewire the whole car......
hey el nene7...... another thing we have in common...... 91 coupe body w/ a full s4 t2 conversion lol...... similarities keep piling up! oh, i bought the roll bar from port racing
i bought a 88 t2....and swapped EVERYTHING (every wire, risistor, fuse panal...motor, drivetrain) the 88 was a shell when i was done (minus the interior..mines black, so i kept it) it took me a week to rewire the whole car......hey el nene7...... another thing we have in common...... 91 coupe body w/ a full s4 t2 conversion
lol...... similarities keep piling up! oh, i bought the roll bar from port racing
Last edited by vipers; Mar 13, 2006 at 01:16 PM.
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i know exactly what happened. your car is an s4 and someone bought a wrecked s5 turbo car and pretty much convereted it appearance wise and put the vins on there. I DID THIS TO A CAR recently. bought a junked s5 T2 and put all the parts and vin on my s4 n/a. hehe... if me... a southern country boy that live in the boonies of georgia in a tiny *** town did this... think off all the other people in big cities and such that have done that. these rx7's get messed with alot over the years and through the owners
Have you ever heard of a chop shop? Its not all that hard to swich all the vin numbers (all the normal vin numbers) between 2 cars.
Its only a few days work, I knew a guy from High School that's did it a few times through never to an RX7. I saw a car where he swapped the dash, the doors, and cut and blended the stamped vin numbers out of the firewall and a few other places, and also swaped the windshield and windows between the two cars as they all had #s. They would then repaint the car and make everything look so good you could never tell.
The way the scam worked, is he would buy a car that was totaled, but had a clean title, and steal a car with the same body style do the swap work down in Mexico, and then sell the stolen vehicle as the wrecked car he bought for a huge proffit.
This is actually something that happens quite often.
That particular scumbag is now in prison.
Its only a few days work, I knew a guy from High School that's did it a few times through never to an RX7. I saw a car where he swapped the dash, the doors, and cut and blended the stamped vin numbers out of the firewall and a few other places, and also swaped the windshield and windows between the two cars as they all had #s. They would then repaint the car and make everything look so good you could never tell.
The way the scam worked, is he would buy a car that was totaled, but had a clean title, and steal a car with the same body style do the swap work down in Mexico, and then sell the stolen vehicle as the wrecked car he bought for a huge proffit.
This is actually something that happens quite often.
That particular scumbag is now in prison.
Originally Posted by BlueTII
Sorry, but you have a 91 N/A that has been converted to a TII with S4 parts. If it were a TII it would have been JM1FC332... or 334....
Originally Posted by matts86fc3s
i know exactly what happened. your car is an s4 and someone bought a wrecked s5 turbo car and pretty much convereted it appearance wise and put the vins on there. I DID THIS TO A CAR recently. bought a junked s5 T2 and put all the parts and vin on my s4 n/a. hehe... if me... a southern country boy that live in the boonies of georgia in a tiny *** town did this... think off all the other people in big cities and such that have done that. these rx7's get messed with alot over the years and through the owners
Originally Posted by slo
Have you ever heard of a chop shop? Its not all that hard to swich all the vin numbers (all the normal vin numbers) between 2 cars.
Its only a few days work, I knew a guy from High School that's did it a few times through never to an RX7. I saw a car where he swapped the dash, the doors, and cut and blended the stamped vin numbers out of the firewall and a few other places, and also swaped the windshield and windows between the two cars as they all had #s. They would then repaint the car and make everything look so good you could never tell.
The way the scam worked, is he would buy a car that was totaled, but had a clean title, and steal a car with the same body style do the swap work down in Mexico, and then sell the stolen vehicle as the wrecked car he bought for a huge proffit.
This is actually something that happens quite often.
That particular scumbag is now in prison.
Its only a few days work, I knew a guy from High School that's did it a few times through never to an RX7. I saw a car where he swapped the dash, the doors, and cut and blended the stamped vin numbers out of the firewall and a few other places, and also swaped the windshield and windows between the two cars as they all had #s. They would then repaint the car and make everything look so good you could never tell.
The way the scam worked, is he would buy a car that was totaled, but had a clean title, and steal a car with the same body style do the swap work down in Mexico, and then sell the stolen vehicle as the wrecked car he bought for a huge proffit.
This is actually something that happens quite often.
That particular scumbag is now in prison.
Originally Posted by vipers
doing an s4 wiring swap in a s5 is a bitch! i know..... i did it! i bought a 88 t2....and swapped EVERYTHING (every wire, risistor, fuse panal...motor, drivetrain) the 88 was a shell when i was done (minus the interior..mines black, so i kept it) it took me a week to rewire the whole car......
hey el nene7...... another thing we have in common...... 91 coupe body w/ a full s4 t2 conversion lol...... similarities keep piling up! oh, i bought the roll bar from port racing
i bought a 88 t2....and swapped EVERYTHING (every wire, risistor, fuse panal...motor, drivetrain) the 88 was a shell when i was done (minus the interior..mines black, so i kept it) it took me a week to rewire the whole car......hey el nene7...... another thing we have in common...... 91 coupe body w/ a full s4 t2 conversion
lol...... similarities keep piling up! oh, i bought the roll bar from port racing
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It's possible you have a S5 shortblock... I got a S5 TII block, turbo, and manifolds, with S4 TB, TPS, AFM, boost sensor, etc in my S4 Base...
Check the knock sensor... If it's on the rotor housing above the trailing coil it's a S5... If it's on the intermediate housing it's a S4 block...
Check the knock sensor... If it's on the rotor housing above the trailing coil it's a S5... If it's on the intermediate housing it's a S4 block...
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