The 510 Realm

Hey guys, This is kind of a ridiculous post, but just because of how my job has been working out over the last few years and my inability to snag a nice L20b setup for weird reasons, I've decided to put two of my Miatas up for trade. THE OFFER: The first is my daily driver, a '91LE manual in BRG wit...

my vote goes for "not flare". I understand that sometimes it is a necessity, but it still makes me frown. Especially big box flares on street cars.

If you just drop the engine from a high enough building, it should fit fine.


Actually, i think a few people have made that swap - but its a bit tight to say the least. BUT, as they say, if you have a welder, anything will fit.

Wow! Thanks for the response, although I must say that it isn't my engine bay, haha, i just pulled it off these forums for an example. I wish it was mine :) But yeah, the little drainage holes wouldn't provide enough airflow for sure - so I like your idea of running a flattened channel down the pass...

oh no, i only meant that you have the advantage of having the intake and exaust manifold on the same side of the engine. I believe you that it works great ffor the L, and I bet it would work great for the SR20 as well - but I was only commenting on the length of the tubing, not how efficient the set...

Very cool, thats a neat setup. However it wouldn't be possible to retain the shortness of you tubing on something like an SR20.

Moving the engine back or putting in your subaru IC? Well, both - although to put in the IC where I was suggesting would only mean cutting an area about 6 inches high by perhaps 20 long, as opposed to moving the entire firewall back a few inches. It's work you could do without even pulling the engi...

icehouse wrote:If you are going to do a whole bunch of cutting why not move the engine back a couple extra inchs? Then you have extra room for a big air and water radiator.

Yeah, i don't think it's worth the work.

Well, I should have explained that this set up obviously wouldn't be used on a daily driver, so the fresh air for the heater and the lack of wipers is sort of a nonfactor (apparently running without wipers is the cool thing to do these days). The only advantage I could see here is the shortness of t...

it could be a preheater for the heater! except now the fresh air wouldn't be so fresh... and you'd could control the flow with easy to use and reach controls... and have a puller fan on the back side.... PS: this is where the air for you heater come from, and the fresh air vents. so yes, there is a...

Hey all, I've been thinking a lot about intercooler placement the last few days, going through the forums and looking at the different routes people have taken, from TMIC to FMIC - but I was thinking tonight about another place to put it. Right behind the upper firewall, there is a hollow area that ...

Do you happen to know if this swap will work with an sr20det? It sounds like a good, available swap - but I would probably have to do this swap before the engine went in. Any ideas?

Yeah, right now the plan is to stitch weld the entire thing while it is on the rotissire - but I really need to get in there and start doing it just to see how much time it will take and how difficult it will be. The rotisseire will make it substantially easier. I've been reading these forums non-st...

I've spent about 4 hours tonight slowly going over each one of your posts and studying each picture until I understood exactly what I was looking at in each one. Your work is just an absolute inspiration for me. I'm currently attempting basically the same conversion, and it is completely alarming ho...

I really hope you are able to finish, and then perhaps come to a meet. Not only would your 510 really be something special, but you seem like a pretty nice guy too! Keep going, and good luck. That poor datsun is the rustiest I've ever seen.