Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
anything is possible with deep pockets
true enough but there is a there is a line that needs to be drawn where its just a stupid idea and a waste



Quote Originally Posted by iloveboost
^ That's awesome. Although, for the price Geoff stated it would be worth it to just build the C motor.

Unless it were a commonly swapped motor with available wiring kits and mounts, I could see the cost getting high up there really fast. This isn't even taking into consideration the cost of the chassis.

Pretty awesome idea and I'd love to see it. I would personally just buy a turbo Elise or Areil Atom for the price it would cost to do that.
It would be worth it if you have a running C, now if you've got a C thats suffered a catastrophic failure- sucks to be you! lol.

Well treated replacement engines go for ~7,000.. installation will be around 1,500-2,000. (its doable yourself but you're going to need a lift to raise the chassis off the car, most dont have that luxury) Now you're in about 9,000.. more than twice what a K swap runs.. almost 3x what a pieced together k24/k20 frank would be..

Xmission would roughly sell for anywhere between 2,000-3,500 depending on mileage, condition, snap-ring range, year, etc. At that point a k20 swap would start to become feasible if the total for the swap is ~15,000-20,000... now Geoff mentioned a rough number of 35,000..

For that price you could buy another C (7k), Sleeve and pistons (~2k), Supertech Valvetrain (1k), lovefab turbo kithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qBo91HIcE (~15k) and still have ~10k to spend on on misc items and labor... I'm not even a boost junkie like most of you guys.. but Cody Loveland knows what the fuck he's doing lol.. my money would be going to him instead of Geoff in the rare occurance that I dont like my NA C32 build I'm working on or my engine decides to prematurely blow up lol