ok so I have had time to cool off and I have decided I do wanna keep the car I love the car and it was over the top angering to do the whole head gasket job and pretty much replace every old thing on the car for new just to get it all together and find coolant pouring out of the intake mani and coolant in the oil again! this tells me the jack A of a previous owner sold it to me with a cracked head or block. so now Im on the hunt for a swap any advice of maybe a diff motor that I could drop in or if anybody has an f2t for sale please let me know. I have heard of fe3's on youtube putting out like 500 horse in these cars but I have no idea what that motor is out of.

bump sorry guys does anybody know if the na motor is the same as the turbo they look pretty identical except the manifolds

head gasket problems can be solved if you put a rotary in it lol

it can still be mounted transverse. which makes it a whole lot easier.

im like a rich white kid in the ghetto for the first time with rotaries man im clueless in that area the head gasket not the part that totally sucked it was the cracked head that did it for me

ah, yea no heads either for rotaries lol

buut the head on an na looks about the same to me. i do think its the same exact engine just with a turbo. i mean 2.2l f2 and the turbo is a 2.2l f2t

like the sr20de and sr20det

thats what I was thinkin I may do a bit of research on it first though I know the distributers are diff but maybe i can swap my cam out with an na one because I was told that might be different and the valve springs but the cam gear is exactly the same so I cant see there being a big variation in anything

so it turns out that the na head is the same so I pulled the best looking one I could find with 90k on it but I really dont wanna strap another cracked head on this thing so does anybody know where I might be able to take it to get it checked in the springs?

back for sale got it half a running but it keeps dieing on me and im tired of blowin money and time into this car http://cosprings.craigslist.org/cto/2431358009.html

damn this car is cursed LOL

Dude it sucks I've easily put like a g in this car and she still don't wanna work I'm debating just takin it to a shop and pray they can figure it out

is it not idling at all? i might be able to help you out

Cool car. Hope that you find a buyer! Someone will enjoy it.

well last night I got the car running perfect boosted idled perfect and all the sudden heard a wierd loud RANDOM screech 10 seconds later the motor siezed cant catch a break but after driving her i do wanna keep it im gonna try and find a new bottom end. does anybody know where I can find one?

damn that sucks. good luck

you should look for compatible engines. But first I would open up the engine and see what you need. Maybe it's fixable. That way you save some time and money. Good luck