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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 09:32 PM
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T2 swap

I have the list of all the NW shops who does swaps but does anyone have any personal experience and would recomend a shop to me to go to? pricing? I was just thinking of going turbo with my car instead of selling it
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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 10:05 PM
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you must already know shop labor is going to be expensive, most likely double what you will spend on parts. Buy all the parts yourself and put them on, leave the wiring and tuning to someone else who specialized in that. and tow it to them at least then when something breaks you know how to fix it.
but that isn't what you asked for, I would set up an appointment with pinapple for the swap.
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 10:10 AM
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What kind of swaps? Bobby at Drift Office is the ****, but
wouldn't touch a rotary if his life depended on it. He's helping
me with a LS1 swap though, and is highly knowledgable.
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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I've got a friend up here in Bellingham that would most likely do it for ya. ( obviously at a price ) but he's a decent rotary guy.
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 05:53 PM
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no1 has any experience with corksport? or any other local WA shops?
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 06:54 PM
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Andy at MazdaTech is very good and also near you.

425 710-7427
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Old Aug 1, 2008 | 02:19 AM
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corksport is hella far
and if $80/hr sounds ok then intec racing in kent would do it. the've been doing alot of rx7 stuff lately. and if you get the apex power fc they have a really good dyno tuner there.
but i agree with jack buy the parts you need first cuz it takes shops forever to get parts. just make sure to look in the faq and make a parts list then go shopping
and i cant stress this enough GET THE RIGHT YEAR PARTS.
i made that mistake in highschool with my t2 project but i learned alot
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Old Aug 1, 2008 | 09:36 AM
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Howdy I can do a swap in a weekend and have it pass emissions everytime. I've done 5 so far this year. $1k

I don't own a shop, I just do them out of my garage. If i happen to find a nice N/A shell, I'll order a halfcut and go nuts then sell the new turbo car. I currently have a S5 GTU-rbo getting ready for sale. Just finished it recently and took it down for emissions and passed this past weekend.


If you insist on doing this, you absolutely have to have all the parts first (do it yourself, or sending it to a shop)
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Old Aug 1, 2008 | 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Boost Lee
Howdy I can do a swap in a weekend and have it pass emissions everytime. I've done 5 so far this year. $1k

I don't own a shop, I just do them out of my garage. If i happen to find a nice N/A shell, I'll order a halfcut and go nuts then sell the new turbo car. I currently have a S5 GTU-rbo getting ready for sale. Just finished it recently and took it down for emissions and passed this past weekend.


If you insist on doing this, you absolutely have to have all the parts first (do it yourself, or sending it to a shop)
PM'd you, thanks for the info guys keep em comming
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Old Aug 1, 2008 | 09:32 PM
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1k!!! like a straight swap s4 na to s4 turbo or s4 na to s5 turbo?
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Old Aug 1, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bboyclo
no1 has any experience with corksport? or any other local WA shops?
Corksport. Did a change over from supercharger to turbo for me , and they did a great job. I also had them do the tuning...wooo...pulled well over 300 hp
Could'nt be happer...
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Old Aug 2, 2008 | 09:09 AM
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+1 for boost lee. He's honest and competent. Does nice work and has good parts connections. Only problem is finding his house. (all those suburban cul de sacs look the same)
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Old Aug 2, 2008 | 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Boost Lee
I don't own a shop, I just do them out of my garage. If i happen to find a nice N/A shell, I'll order a halfcut and go nuts then sell the new turbo car. I currently have a S5 GTU-rbo getting ready for sale. Just finished it recently and took it down for emissions and passed this past weekend.
My son was just looking for such a thing. PM me with info on the car.
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