How hard is it to swap KA's?

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Mannie111

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I have a 92 S13 hatch with a blown 200,000mile KA. I just picked up a 98 kouki KA w/ supposedly around 20,000 miles on it and runs perfect. I have it sitting on a motor lift in my garage next to my s13. It still has the tranny bolted on to it and harness so it would be a straight swap in. I was told that i would have to swap the intake manifold on the kouki motor with an s13 intake manifold because the harness on the 92's are different. Is this true and if so, is there anything else that's different on the 98's or can i just take the blown motor out swap the 98 in and fire it up? And is there anyone that know's how to do KA swaps around my area(miramar/pembroke pines)? I would much rather have someone do the swap/ help me with it than to try doing it myself. I could take it to JG autoworks but they charge 600 for the swap and that's way over my budget. thanks for the help guys. lmk
 
i'm not gonna read that wall of text, so i skimmed it.



the S13 intake manifolds have butterflies in the runners, so if you're putting an S13 KA in an S14, use an S14 intake manifold.. you're gonna wanna do that anyway because of the emissions system.

i think that's it, maybe get an S14 distributor.
 
^ you got it backwards... He's putting a S14 engine in a S13 chassis. There may be some sensor and wiring differences, the 92 is OBDI and and the 98 is OBDII.
 
al0389 said:
^ you got it backwards... He's putting a S14 engine in a S13 chassis. There may be some sensor and wiring differences, the 92 is OBDI and and the 98 is OBDII.
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oh. yeah, i figured i would get something confused.. i just skimmed that post, didn't feel like reading all of it.
 
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