Lets get down and dirty with a 2ZZ., Experts only please. Options

[Guest_Jason_*]

A friend and I are looking into taking on a nice project, obviously, attempting to swap a 2ZZ(GTS) into my current 7A(ST). This good friend of mine did the swap on my previous Integra, has alot of knowledge on welding and fabricating etc, but not neccessarily in wiring (which can be dealth with at a later time). We just "out of the blue" started thinking about doing such a swap as a fun project to attempt. We just want to look into some of the difficulties we may run in to before we actually run into the situation with no way out. Basically, trying to plan out all of our problems ahead of time, so that when we reach them, we have a planned method of working around them.

What i'm asking is, if anybody can give me some possible difficulties we may run into and some helpful solutions to getting around them or making them work, please help. Our most obvious is Engine Mounts, but we aren't worried about that at all really, its pretty easy to weld new mounts on. The good thing on this is that all work is going to be done by him, making installation free unless we run into some severe difficulties. Through me some ideas guy...

We are currently trying to get our hands on a low-mileage 2ZZ.

I'm going to go ahead and come out on a limb and say right off the bat we are looking into custom axle's (unless a GT would work), relocated engine mounts, and transmission.

[Kwanza26]

The only hard thing about the wiring will be the gauge hook-ups, IMO. The stock harness should transfer over completely with the ECU, sensors, etc. Of course, you'll have to custom fab plumbing for cooling systems, a/c, etc... and custom mount everything... but I'd say it'll probably be less hassle than any JDM swap... cause for me, custom fab under the hood is not as hard as messing with wiring...
Drivetrain-wise... you can probably use the inner shafts that connect to the tranny, but the outer shafts have to be the right length and have to fit the front hubs. There are options... other than custom, especially since toyota uses similar hub patterns all of the time... but if not, it'll have to be custom.

This post has been edited by Kwanza26: Dec 29, 2003 - 2:33 AM