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RB25DET Swapped Conquest - With Video

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My biggest off with Nissan's stuff is why there are two crank angle sensor circuits, each having a 120* and 1* rotation signal. That alone made a Bee*R install on a friends' RB20 S13 a royal PITA.

 

I'm a fan of Toyota inline-sixes, and Nissan fours, though I'd rather run an SR or CA [hell, even a KA or L-series] on a Honda ECU and ignition.

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My biggest off with Nissan's stuff is why there are two crank angle sensor circuits, each having a 120* and 1* rotation signal. That alone made a Bee*R install on a friends' RB20 S13 a royal PITA.

 

I'm a fan of Toyota inline-sixes, and Nissan fours, though I'd rather run an SR or CA [hell, even a KA or L-series] on a Honda ECU and ignition.

 

I'm a big fan of the Toyota line up as well. I do like how the Nissan engines sound a little deeper. I haven't had any trouble with the CAS yet. Other than being a PITA to wire, is there a disadvantage to using that type of ignition signal that you know of? I have played around with 4 cylinder turbo cars quite a bit (I have a pretty built '93 Eagle Talon TSi that I Auto-X, a stock '90 Talon TSi that I daily drive and have helped on friends Subaru flat 4's and a little on my brothers Ford 2.3 turbo) and I was ready for little more displacement. From the little bit that I have driven it, I really like having the torque available down low and the super quick spool on the turbo.

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I'd rather run an SR or CA [hell, even a KA or L-series] on a Honda ECU and ignition.

and use a crappy honda distributor..... and put it where ? Seen tooo many of those fail.

At the local importers, honda motors are the only ones you'll never find with the distributor in them

 

http://www.nistune.com/ is all you need, if u wanna "push" the motor. To give an example, a clubmember competed successfully with his 520hp street ca18(1.8L)

Otherwise, seen great results on SAFC tuned strong running street cars

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wow this is epic good job with the swap hope to see more vids maybe a dyno pull and 1/4 times after shes all ready

 

Thank you. I can't wait to get comfortable with everything and go see what she will do. There will definitely be some good burnout, dyno and other videos coming up :) It was running awesome, but I think that the water pump went out yesterday (I know, I should have changed it when it was easy). It is time to take care of the misc maintenance things to make sure that I don't blow it up or anything. I have already replaced most of the water lines and changed all of the fluids. I think I will pop in a timing belt and water pump and flush the engine one more time and then get some good miles on her.

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and use a crappy honda distributor..... and put it where ? Seen tooo many of those fail.

At the local importers, honda motors are the only ones you'll never find with the distributor in them

 

http://www.nistune.com/ is all you need, if u wanna "push" the motor. To give an example, a clubmember competed successfully with his 520hp street ca18(1.8L)

Otherwise, seen great results on SAFC tuned strong running street cars

 

I hate to dirty this thread up with Honda electronics nonsense, but I'd hardly consider them "crap". I'm sure you're aware that a stock Honda ignition in good repair is able to support 700hp - I can think of 7 sub 11-second cars in Utah alone running an OEM ignition and ECU. It is hands-down the cheapest proven stand-alone for a 4-cylinder engine. I may even finish my G54B/Honda setup I had started fabbing up before I decided on my Cobra 5.0 V8 swap, and put it in another SQ for daily-driving duty. I don't see a downside, there is very little to be gained by a coil-on-plug setup from what I've seen in my experiences. ^_^

 

Just figured I'd add my two-cents to the subject, and move forward.

 

As far as any inherent disadvantages to how Nissan did it, I can't see any in an OEM light, however it does make things a pain in the arse to modify. I suppose I think things too-simply though. I'm not a fan of how Mitsubishi wired their 4G63s either, honestly.

 

But back to your car - so far things are looking great. I'd have added a flex-pipe somewhere in that downpipe, but to each is own I suppose.

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Not saying they're 'crap', once operational, but.....

there has to be somethin wrong why all those honda distributors go missing, and I've had more than a few honda buddies go hunting for a good one

 

poweredbynissan probably don't mind tuning options mentioned in his thread I assume

I can vouch for the rb25/SAFC route, from experience

Nistune users, rave about it. I'm quite positive no honda option could even attract them. Like DSMlink for eg

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Straight sixes are incredible... any chance of some motor mount shots?? Seriously considering this swap or perhaps even a rb20 not sure yet

 

Sure thing. I will take some pictures of a side profile and of the engine mounts. I haven't gotten to drive it too much yet, but the little that I have was awesome. It actually feels pretty well proportioned. The engine pretty much goes from the firewall clear up to the core support.

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