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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 07:32 PM
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Motor Swap

I finally yanked the motor out of the carcass of my wrecked 86 the motor is in great shape ( 20,000 m) and i have found a 3 gen with a bad engine cheap how easy is it to mount a 2nd gen motor into a 3rd gen Engine bay
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 07:34 PM
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sell the motor and rebuild the 13b rew it will be cheaper and keep you away from getting flamed to death
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 07:35 PM
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Umm why would you wana do that ? LOL...

it would be hard to get it in (different mounts) and it probably woudln't work without ALOT of work. and in the end you've have one SLOW *** 3rd gen
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 07:38 PM
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haha...sell your 13b and get rebuild the 3rd gen. I dont think you'd want a 13b FD haha
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 08:16 PM
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yeah.. get the fd engine rebuilt, you can probably finance it by parting out your other car
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 08:18 PM
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if you want to part it out....ill take the rotor housings....
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 08:53 PM
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Okay point taken dose anyone know who would want to buy a practicly brand new 20,000 mile 13b tranny and all and for how much
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