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.

[NEVERSTOP]

hey good luck to you man on this.. im one for doing something differnent and wastin all kinds of money on it, but have you really ever driven a 7GC? I mean seriously man there slow! expessially on the accel - top end isnt too bad but man the 0-40 feels like it takes FOREVER!

I dont know, your doing your own thing and thats cool but I really feel like I gotta say,"IS IT WORTH IT??" the cost to HP ratio is not worth it, the Time to HP ratio isnt really worth it, the only reason I can justifably see why you would do this is just for the shear fact of saying... "yea I did that" but someone already beat you to the punch on it.

I will say if the only experince you have with motor swaps is honda motors then you are not prepared for this type of task - period. I have done alot of differnt motor swaps in my life and honda ones are the easiest by far... would rather swap a honda motor than change my oil filter on my 3sgte - seriously (3sgte owners know what I mean here )

I would personally look into something more benificial and unique like a 2JZ-GTE into a 6gc - it could be done with some cutting and relocation and would have alot more bragging right to it as that is the only logical reason I can come up with as to why you would want to do this.

who knows if your gonna do it then do it and tell us how it turned out and I hope all goes well for you but research the hell out of it, just dont jump in head 1st

thats just my two cents on it