so heres the story. I drive a teg and my cousin started liking em a lot. So he bought a stripped 95 Rs from an auction for 600 bucks. It only needed an engine/tranny, and interior. So he asked if i would help him bring it back to life and i said sure because i had done this before. So he found a crashed gsr from http://www.cars.com for 3k and we swapped out everything from the gsr to the rs. Whole swap with wiring took us 3 days. Finally got to drive it 3 days ago and man that thing is quick. Ran it against a stock gsr and it gains about a car length on it. Oh and theres no a/c on my cousins car. Will upload some pics of the car before and after. Want to make the car a lil bit quicker, is it worth installing a b16 tranny instead of the stock gsr tranny.

 

the b16 tranny will definitely gain you some acceleration, but it will **** you off on the freeway.

 

wth, how can a swap be faster than the original? is it the RS really light or something cus it was stripped?

 

lol RS wit a stock GSR pulls like dookie....

 

rs has no sunroof, abs, pw, pl, no cruise, no nothing. so you lose a few pounds pick up a little acceleration. my old roommate says his prelude S handled noticeably better than his si because of all the extra **** on it. he says he can feel the weight. by the way this guy took 1st in h-stock a few seasons ago, back when he was racing, so i think he would know.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by importdays &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so heres the story. I drive a teg and my cousin started liking em a lot. So he bought a stripped 95 Rs from an auction for 600 bucks. It only needed an engine/tranny, and interior. So he asked if i would help him bring it back to life and i said sure because i had done this before. So he found a crashed gsr from http://www.cars.com for 3k and we swapped out everything from the gsr to the rs. Whole swap with wiring took us 3 days. Finally got to drive it 3 days ago and man that thing is quick. Ran it against a stock gsr and it gains about a car length on it. Oh and theres no a/c on my cousins car. Will upload some pics of the car before and after. Want to make the car a lil bit quicker, is it worth installing a b16 tranny instead of the stock gsr tranny. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Cant wait to see pics

 

How can that be a swap? I thought that was just restoring a engine in a integra that has nothing. I pretty sure if a gsr has nothing and just the motor it will be fast also because it has a better suspension than a RS.

 

all it has over the rs is the strut tower bar right? and maybe a beefier rear sway bar

 

only bad thing is the b16 synchros

 

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Maybe he only worked on it for a short period each day. I highly doubt it took him all three days working steady at it. I know he said he has done this once before so he has some experience. Not saying he is bad but not all of us are bad *** like you&lt;--- Hense the sarcasm. Anyway, can't wait to see some pics or timeslips.
~Chuck

 

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i am thinking he is referring to swapping and wiring the motor and swapping the entire interior

 

not everybody has a good workshop or workspace. some of us have to half-***/ghetto rig/ghetto-fabulous fabricate our ****. u know?

 

What is the point of coming in here and saying that? What are you gaining by saying he's slower at swapping a motor than you are? Would you like a gold star? How about a cookie.... No? Then get the **** out.

Back to the actual topic of this thread, good job on the restoration, hopefully you took some before pics too?

 

ahh man, this makes people not want to post here. yea it was 3 days of work but not entire days, and yea we did it in the front yard. jacked the car up really high put bricks to make it higher to put the engine from the bottom. and i rewired the whole damn car cause the ecu wires were cut. pain in da ***!!!! pics on the way

 

oh and by now the car has ran 2 stock gsr's and it pulls on them by a car. and no its not gutted, car is completes.

 

sweet! good job on the swap, sounds like a hassel. i'm probably gonna be doing the same **** pretty soon here. good to know it can be done in your front yard with basic tools. you've given me courage (and possibly saved me a grand)

 

ya, but changing the ENTIRE harness takes a lot more work, not to mention door panals, carpet, center consol, all your meters, air, etc. 3 days is about average to turn a completely gutted car into a stock looking car.

 

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I can vouch for that.

 

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interior is like 9 bolts total for the seats, if the plastics were gone those are just take out and clip back in, and wiring????? The motor is all plug and play man, its not that hard to connect some clips to some sensors. </TD></TR></TABLE>


d00d if the ******* thing was stripped to the goddamn bone its not just a ******* simple 2 min thing, **** takes time, **** pops up, have you EVER worked on a car in your life?

 

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WOW i would be scared to see a car that you have ever touched.</TD></TR></TABLE>


exactly

 

and to whoever was nitpicking, maybe by swap he meant "transfer"

 

i would still call it a swap its not a ls motor

 

GOOD JOB MAN!!, oh and that guy who had negative stuff to say sucks big ****