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Nov 8, 2004 | 07:18 PM

#26

ECKO1980

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From: North Seattle

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Originally Posted by gerbraldy

I specified with jspec auto sports that I wanted an S4 13bt and they said they'd send me an s4

So why dont you send it the **** back and get what you payed for??? If you bought an alternator for an RX7 and they gave you one for a lumina your not going to build custom brackets and rewire your car.......you take it the **** back.

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Originally Posted by gerbraldy

What, you dont think japanese are allowed to mod their cars or something.

I have no clue what your talking about.

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Originally Posted by gerbraldy

Yeah right, I'm sure you know your stuff better than kevin landers..... Come on, give me a complete writeup mr. wankel.

Well I have a running TII conversion whats the status on your car........

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Originally Posted by gerbraldy

And I know about switching to s4 13bt parts and thats just not an option.

That would be way to easy, instead lets remove the whole vehicle wiring harness and hack some **** together

Seriously dude do what ever you want.

Nov 8, 2004 | 07:34 PM

#27

inflatablepets

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From: St Louis

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Originally Posted by HAILERS

Hmmmmmmm. The OMP seems to me to be the drawback. I'm on shakey ground with this, but can't you remove the front cover on your series four....and bolt it on the series five? Frankly I don't know for SURE if they will fit. But doing that would remove the OMP obstacle if you used a series four ECU (The same one you now have).

The next obstacle I see is the boost conroller/solenoid that's on a series five. That could be overcome with a aftermarket boost controller. About eighty bucks for a manual one. Or as an alternate method, I THINK the vac line from the turbo to the solenoid could be plugged. Then you could only run about 5-7. The boost would be governed by the waste gate spring. At least you could drive it and have boost til you got a aftermarket boost controller.

The driveshaft....I figure you know you need a aftermarket one for the transmission to match the rearend.

Other than those things, I don't see why the stock non turbo harness cannot be used with the series five engine. There are about three to four wires that need a bit of modification. Don't forget about the series five alternators plug being different. Still just two small wires but the size of the connector is different.

From where I stand, the OMP is the biggest drawback. But if you still have a front cover for a series four.....swap 'em out. So the OMP will work (your old OMP, that is. The new series five won't work without a series five ECU).

OOOps. Left out the turbo pressure sensor. The AFM will work fine, but the pressure/boost sensor needs to be replaced if you have just a non turbo pressure/boost sensor.

So? Where and what are the FLAWS in what I just said? P.S. I've done a non turbo to turbo swap in the past and didn't bust my brain figuring things out. Works just fine.

You can change the front cover, just make sure the bearing stack doesn't fall out when you pull the front bolt off the eccentric shaft. Also you need to be sure you put the oil o-ring in it's proper place. There is a write-up somewhere that I postd. If you search under my screen name it's there somewhere.