Had this car for 10 years and finally pull my lazy ass to do the swap. Car been sitting for 4 years due to a broken rocker arm on the m20 and blew the head gasket. Gonna fab up the exhaust tomorrow and she be back on the road.
Origally bought the car with an m40 for 2500 back in 2009 , the water pump went on it and it didn't share any water pump with other north America models and it was 350 bucks with shipping from UK to replace a water pump. Then found a full low miles m20 for 400 bucks. Tossed that in. Drove it for few years then the old stamp timing pulley gave and destroyed the head. Bought a new after market head ,fixed it ,did a full respray on my own with single stage paint( gotta keep it original) drove it for a year and one of the rocker arm went and blew the head gasket. Then I got side tracked with other stuff and left her sitting .
This was when I first swapped the m20 with 4.10 rear end. Gearing too short and bouncing off the rev limiter as I didn't want to shift to third to waste time . It's got a 3.73 LSD now. Might need to go lower with the s52 but will see.
Origally bought the car with an m40 for 2500 back in 2009 , the water pump went on it and it didn't share any water pump with other north America models and it was 350 bucks with shipping from UK to replace a water pump. Then found a full low miles m20 for 400 bucks. Tossed that in. Drove it for few years then the old stamp timing pulley gave and destroyed the head. Bought a new after market head ,fixed it ,did a full respray on my own with single stage paint( gotta keep it original) drove it for a year and one of the rocker arm went and blew the head gasket. Then I got side tracked with other stuff and left her sitting .
This was when I first swapped the m20 with 4.10 rear end. Gearing too short and bouncing off the rev limiter as I didn't want to shift to third to waste time . It's got a 3.73 LSD now. Might need to go lower with the s52 but will see.
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