Engine swap into 120LS

[Raw120]

Your ideas please gentle people.

 

See my into here for a little about myself and my project

 

full advert for the car is here, I’ve not bought it yet but will do next week for about €3.5k. Original plan is to put a Polo G40 engine in, but I’m interested get your suggestions and help thinking through other options. 

 

£5k to pimp her up, what would you do?

[Raw120]

I’m leaning towards Honda’s B18C engine from the DC2 Integra type R or similar civic. Common sense says I should just buy a nice DC2 in the UK for £8k (they’re more like €14k out here for LHD) but:

1, Wheres the fun in that

2, I can’t register a RHD car in Slovakia

 

I should be able to pick up a dressed engine for about €2k. Then €1k in custom fabrication and another €1k for the megasquirt install and that leaves €1.5k contingency.

 

The only spanner in the works being the weight of the engine. Despite being a Ally block, the dressed engine will weigh about 180kg. Is that going to ruin my fun?

 

Does anyone know the weight of the 120 engine?

[petergarforth]

the gearbox will be your problem.....they don't handle a great deal of power and torque before the diffs break. The 120 engine weighs about 100kg so you will be adding a lot of weight to the rear. 

[Raw120]

Thanks for the reply. I've done a lot of reading and re-thinking on this and will not go ahead with it. The cost of mating the two engines and then chasing all the weaknesses through the drive train will likely ruin me! I've also found out that Slovakia has just started to allow RHD cars to be registered there.

 

The best thing to do is to buy the Integra and enjoy the engine as it was intended. 

[petergarforth]

19 hours ago, Raw120 said:

Thanks for the reply. I've done a lot of reading and re-thinking on this and will not go ahead with it. The cost of mating the two engines and then chasing all the weaknesses through the drive train will likely ruin me! I've also found out that Slovakia has just started to allow RHD cars to be registered there.

 

The best thing to do is to buy the Integra and enjoy the engine as it was intended. 

 

Integra is a great drivers car and they aren't exactly common. Hang onto it and look after it and you will make money.