Hi just wondering if people are still buying $3k+ jdm engine swaps? about 12 years i bought my first jdm itr swap. over $5k to swap it in my DA with mods.it was cool. it was quick. but it was still a honda, I ended up selling the swap for dirt cheap. I left the honda scene for awhile, got into bmws, the n54 twin turbo 6 cylinder engines can be bought for $1k or less.. Lots of power in a rwd chassis with all the creature comforts. bought a cheap e90 325i 6 speed manual n/a n52 as a daily in which i will mod with just bolt ons. faster than a s2k without the overpriced honda bullshit. Theres also the n20 4 cylinder turbo engine. which is a 2.0 like the the type R but without the mark up. theres a bmw for everybody.

Fast forward today I was looking for a gsr swap and cant believe the price hasnt changed. I think it has to be because of supply and demand but I dont think ill ever spend $5k+ on a swap on a old b-series motor ever again. not on a chassis thats worth no more than $700 shell.

 

Where are you seeing GSR swaps for $5k? Just the motors go for about 1500 I I remember correctly

 

Lol at $1000 n54's and n20's being like a type r without the mark up.

 

It all depends on where you buy the swap from, but if you're talking retail websites like HMO, then yes, prices haven't changed much. HMO sells GSR for like 2500-3300 IIRC and ITR for 3500-4500. Pretty much the same price as it's been for years and years.

But if you go on various facebook pages, people sell used GSR for as low as 600-1500. But a lot of people have been ripped off by "low mileage" engines...even from importers. It's always a risk buying used.

Honda engines are overpriced--haven been for a long time, compared to other manufacturers. All you need to do is look at Craigslist ads from the importers who get Nissan, Toyota, etc. and Hondas will easily be among the most expensive options. It's just because Honda's are so popular, especially to do swaps.

 

The easy swap honda engines are overpriced, due to supply and demand, likewise, the more complex honda engine swaps are relatively cheap (engine alone, not counting associated labor/hardware etc). Some of the J/K/F series engines are much cheaper than your average B series.

 

jdm orlando wants $1900 for just the long block. In any other country you can have this block for less than a grand.

yes i sold my good old itr swap for less than %50 of what i paid for it. i regret selling it. those people selling there jdm engines on facebook had to have bought it from an importer. or bought it from someone that bought it from an importer.

yes, so that being said, would you guys pay a couple grand for a b-series swap??? like i said i wouldnt..well no anymore is what i mean because i did pay those prices before, whatever spell it had me under i now woke up from it.. hmotors having this march madness thing going on so one would think there having a sale but apparently its just letting consumers know that there busy. so either people are still buying or its one of those once the price goes up it never comes down. is anybody here on honda-tech still paying those prices??

Its krazy to see a high dollar swap in a 500-700 chassis now and you would think the high dollar swap would bring up the value of the car but you still wouldnt get back 50% of what you paid its exactly like throwing $$ into the fire simply because like you said honda swaps are easy and theres nothing special about it.

 

Nobody dumps money into a project and realistically expects to get anywhere close to what they put in back, throwing money into a fire is essentially what project cars are but people do it because they enjoy it. Prices are set by supply and demand, and lots of people want overpriced Honda parts. I think nostalgia is driving a lot of the high prices on Hondas, an ITR sold for $40k not too long ago. People who idolized cars like the Integra Type-R, S2000, and NSX growing up now have money. It's a bit taboo to heavily mod Type-Rs (and their value has skyrocketed, making them out of reach for most people) so instead people buy lower trim cars for a couple grand then mod the **** out of them. It also helps that older Hondas have good chassis and suspension design and can handle very well when properly set up.

 

Lol that is because Orlando is a cess pool of orlando fiebre puerto ricans ruining everything.