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Were they making 2nd gens 20b ready?

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Old Feb 11, 2007 | 10:30 PM
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Question Were they making 2nd gens 20b ready?

When I was changing my sparkplugs I noticed on the Fuse block thers a arm that holds the leading? plugs up and i noticed theres a 3rd slot. Sounds reasonable cuz if they we're gonna add another rotor they wouldnt need to make another part.
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Old Feb 11, 2007 | 10:34 PM
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The GTUs was concepted as a 20b N/A but mileage concerns nixed that.
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Old Feb 11, 2007 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Goofy
The GTUs was concepted as a 20b N/A but mileage concerns nixed that.
Ah! I understand then

I saw one that came from mazda with a 20b, enginebay was stuffed
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 12:07 AM
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There were two press versions of the 88 10th AE (both Artic silver) that were built with 20B engines in them as well as the GTUs (note the small "S"- don't confuse with just a GTU) was planned to have a normally asperatied 20B.

but testing showed issues with cooling and driveline, and with the S5 sales dropping due to the price, and poor gas mileage; it was decieded not to go into production with them and fix the cooling and driveline issues.
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Icemark
There were two press versions of the 88 10th AE (both Artic silver) that were built with 20B engines in them as well as the GTUs (note the small "S"- don't confuse with just a GTU) was planned to have a normally asperatied 20B.

but testing showed issues with cooling and driveline, and with the S5 sales dropping due to the price, and poor gas mileage; it was decieded not to go into production with them and fix the cooling and driveline issues.
Thats a really cool thing though, so the plug line holder was made with 3 for 20b plans?
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 01:18 AM
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Um, no...
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 01:53 AM
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I don't understand what you're trying to say...

Are you talking about the extra fuse spot?
That's for ABS which your car doesn't have.

If you're talking about the bracket that is also attached to the fuse block that has that extra stud on it...that's for very early FC3S production that put the coolant overflow bottle on that side of the engine bay.


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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 03:47 AM
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Originally Posted by RETed
I don't understand what you're trying to say...

Are you talking about the extra fuse spot?
That's for ABS which your car doesn't have.

If you're talking about the bracket that is also attached to the fuse block that has that extra stud on it...that's for very early FC3S production that put the coolant overflow bottle on that side of the engine bay.


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The 2nd.

and darn i was wrong =[ that sucks
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Old Feb 12, 2007 | 05:08 AM
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Is there anything on the stock FC that was put there with the intention of possible having a 20b in it? Id imagine not.
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