I can understand that, but the seller owns a performance shop, and has had 9 DSMs. I felt comfortable buying it, because he appeared to know the cars rather well, and this was his personal winter vehicle. I didn't buy it off some random kid that happened to have a DSM lying around on cinderblocks in his driveway.

Can I ask the name of the performance shop?

Hey if the car has a nice body and you don't want to fix it I might be interested in buying if from you. I need another dsm project for the spring time.

Okay, I spoke with him after work. He swapped the front differential from the previous tranny, to ensure that they match up, so I won't be having any transmission problems. Since he did take care of that properly, and said he would swap my motor free of charge, I'm going to refrain from naming any names, because he is being pretty fair about things.
He also told me that my best bet right now, would be to get an Evo 3 motor, which would come with the big 16g and 510cc injectors, so I'm most likely going to go that route. My question at this point is, what type of MAF does that motor have? Should I use whatever MAF it comes with, and run it stock, or put on the 2G MAF and get an SAFC to compensate for the slightly smaller injectors?

It's the computer (ECU), injectors and MAFS that all must match.
550cc injectors are close enough to run a stock 1G ECU and 2G MAFS. With 510cc, you will still be a touch lean, and should still compensate for that with an SAFC.
I doubt your JDM motor will come with ECU & MAFS, so there is probably no getting around the SAFC unless you go back to a 1G MAFS with 450cc.

Personally, I would use the 510cc, 2G MAFS and install an SAFC (or equiv).

Sounds good, I definitely don't want to end up running too lean again. Aaah.. curse my addiction to modding.. repairs always have a way of becoming upgrades somehow.

Now you can name the shop. Sounds like he stands behind what he does... Or will make more from parting out what was inside the motor. *Laugh*

Haha, I'm still iffy on naming, because I do feel it kinda gives him a bad rep, and I don't want to cause any bad blood or drama. I'm actually keeping the old motor, one of my friends has a Mazdaspeed Protege and he was eyeballing my engine bay and he's convinced he can make it fit in his car. I'm kinda curious to see if he can pull it off so I'm letting him have it for free. It's going to be one fast Protege if it works

I bought my car for 3000 knowing it had a bad tranny, I used it as leverage to lower the price, thanks to Reza's previous posts and past experiences I learned what would match the final drive.
There are many different trannies you can use as I said before. It is unlikly that you ruinied anything but the Viscous coupler in the tranny, it will eventually distroy your syncro's and bearings though.
The rear diff could only have been swaped with a 3-bolt or a 4-bolt (where the axle bolts to the diff, more bolts are better). Anything else would have had the braces fabricated to make it work(not worth it for what we need).
You do not need $3000 in tools, lets not scare him off here. I do all my own work outside year around if nessesary. You will only need a 10mm,12,14,17,19mm, sockets and wrenches, spark plug socket, a jack, vise and about a $150 in special tools if that. Borrow an engine crane when you need it. If you need a motor, tranny, pistons, head, than buy it, all are easy to change, and a stock 4G63 can handle close to 400HP with a good tune and the proper mods, I call that pretty reliable.
If you want to open up a performance shop than maybe you will go and spend $3000 on tools, and then you just need a garage and a lift.
edit: if he did swap the centre diff you should be able to tell by the silicon and marks on the tranny bolts that hold the halves together.

Is it Jim?

Antonio, you already claimed responsibility for blowing the motor, AND the guy is replacing yours, right? Doesn't give him a bad rep at all, probably the opposite.

As for people thinking DSMs are pieces of sh!t, well, anything can break without receiving proper attention. Cars, marriages, computers, everything. You just need to pay close attention and beware the signs!


Oh, and be sure to take proper advantage of the wide variety of information available here and on other DSM sites. It can save you TONS of money at the cost of a little reading time.

He said he swapped the front diff, not the center, and that it is the 4 bolt rear end. It didn't really mean anything to me originally, but now it does. The guy's name is Jason from Vindicate Motorsports, and he's been very patient with explaining everything to me while I freaked out. There were a few misunderstandings about the car originally, but he always picked up the phone, or called back within like 30 min, so everything got sorted out. I will be taking my car there for future upgrades, even though it's hella far from where I live.

Never heard of Vindicate Motorsports, is that a new shop or something?

Look up the name "Jay Peterson"...

Holy sh!t! If you bought this car from Jay Peterson, I would stay as far away from him as possible from here on in. He is only going to suck more money out of you. He has quite a reputation for being a CROOK!!

Uhmm... frack... Yea, that's the guy. Should I still take him up on the free labour for the swap, or is he that bad?

It's a speed shop... You'd think they'd know better than to just throw a 2G MAFS on the car without compensation.
Or maybe this was "planned obsolescence"?
I wonder what else they have planned for your car, when you bring it back

What's this, free labour?
Buy one kick in the nuts, get the second for free?

Yeah, Antonio, stay away from Jay as per the thread above. You said "Vidicate Motorsports" and I went "Oh sh!t"

Having read the posts relating to what Tim has pointed out, I retract my prior statement from my previous post. This guy is lucky he never dealt with anyone I know personally. I'll leave it at that.

http://www.ca.dsm.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=246752#Post246752

is the Jay's partner

http://vindicatemotorsports.com/

If it doesent work out, people who post regularly on here are amazing...

Don't F with DSMers..
We are like elephants... NEVER FORGET!!!

Eep... Okay... Should I attempt the swap myself then? I've done a few Nissan swaps before, but I would definitely be learning as I go on this car. Or can you recommend a shop or individual for me to take the car? I paid someone for my first motor swap, but under the condition that I take part in it, and I ended up learning enough to swap a friend's car a few months later, so ideally I'd like to do something like that again. Is there someone like that on here? I would also need a motor, since I had intended to get that off of Jay as well.

You could talk to Helder Daponte

If you've done an engine swap before, a replacement shouldn't be any trouble for you.

You'll lean a LOT pretty quickly if you do it yourself, as well.

The other thing that just occured to me, is I do want to get someone else to look at my tranny. If he's not to be trusted, he could have easily told me that he took care of it just to get me off his back. I'll pm Helder Daponte. Is he in the GTA? Also, what's a good place to get a motor?

Thumbs up for Helder Dapont. He won't make you bend over the way Jay would...

Helder can help you with your car, he is in the GTA (west end).

Haha, +1 for Helder once again.

"always fixing other peoples mistakes".
"4GD motorsports."

mental note to self. dont buy a DSM from a nissan forum.

Aaron

haha, I got mine off there too.. thats why I had so many problems with it..

& don't buy a car with a plate starting with a B, they recently came out with those.. Why selling so fast..

B is for bait

Is it just me.. or is there a bolt missing bottom left where the turbo mounts to the manifold..

It's welded Another case of me not checking carefully enough before buying the car. *sigh* I always rush into every major purchase.

there is a 1g manifold for free pick up in toronot in the classifides.. i'm sure its not welded.. would b a place to start

Okay, so I'm going to start looking for an engine on my own. If I decide to go with an Evo 3, which parts can I re-use from my car? Will my current ECU run it provided I add an SAFC to compensate for fueling? What about ignitor, etc...?

If I'm not mistaken, you could just put your injectors back in the EVO rail, and all the other 1G sensors that work with you ECU and wire harness.

I don't know what CAS it uses, Coil pack, MAF, ISC, TPS or transistor but there shouldn't be a problem in swaping your old ones in it, it is the same block.

First good news since I got this car. About the injectors though, doesn't it make sense to keep the larger 510cc than revert to my stock ones?

Yes, but then you'll need the SAFC to adjust for the larger than stock INJ or you'll been running rich. Your ECU is calibrated for 450cc's.... even if you use the 2G maf you'll need some way to fine tune it, as your INJ are 12% approx bigger and you have 20% more air so you need to adjust for that 8% still.

Others on here are better at this than me.

That's right, as I said above: MAFS, ECU & injectors must match closely or you will need a piggyback fuel controller (such as an SAFC) to compensate.

I suppose the popular options would be:

a) Get a stock 1G MAFS and run 450cc / 1G USDM ECU.
b) Get an SAFC and run 2G MAFS / 510cc / 1G USDM ECU.
c) Get the JDM MAFS (is it the same as 1G?) & JDM ECU and run the 510cc.

Sounds good, is there any particular place/person that is a good source of motors? I know most forums have a few people that deal pretty heavily in importing, so I figured there should be one here as well.

You have an Eprom ecu do you not?
If so get whatever injecters you want.

Get a peckerhead chip from Steve Kinnaird.
It will almost everything you need and a few other things like 2 step/stutterbox for example.

Varun on son240 got me my motor.
Motor was mint!
Tell him what your looking for because he is not a dsm guy.

6 bolt, blue or yellow injecters, Hopefully yellow.
TDo5 turbo. if it has double fins its a 16g if it has single fins it is a 14b.

If it has a cyclone intake mani. it is probably fresh of the boat.

You will want to run the USDM intake mani and thermostat housing/sensors.

You will also have to swap out the o2 sensor on a Jdm motor.

If I were you, I would send out that motor for a stock rebuild.
Rainbow in Markham does good work I hear and are very familiar with dsms.
Should be less than $1000.

Also call Helder for the install.

Aaron.