What 4Age Engine To Use?

[dans rolla]

I'm in Adelaide mate, a while back I had a te72 that I put a 4age into went pretty hard, I can give you some tips an probs help out if ya need aswell, I pretty much done all the work my self on mine got all the tools to do it to

[Camo_love]

I'm willing to spend the money on all of the tools and such that are necessary. just need someone to tell me what i need to do (:

[dans rolla]

Basically pull ur 4ac out take all the metal engine brackets/mounts off chuck them on a front wheel drive 4age (cos the easier to find and cheaper) install spigot bearing into the back of the crank, find a Jdm rwd inlet manifold an rwd exhaust manifold drop it all back in ur 71 bolt it in an get some help wiring it up

[Camo_love]

Well i've got the 4AC out so far (:

 

What 4AGE Engine would that work best with. Just need to know what one to look for (:

[dans rolla]

I'd say 16v bigport probably the simplest out of them all in my opinion, still go alright to

[Camo_love]

sounds like what i'm after. i don't want anything fast. i want it to be reliable and go well.

[dans rolla]

That'd be the way to go, not the fastest but their fun to drive, u got much experience workin on engines in general?

[Camo_love]

not really, had to fix the 4AC i'm about to pull out once before. the timing beltsnapped so had to get the head sent off and the valves done. did that myself, had my neighbour telling me what to do though. also pulled the 4AC out of the car last weekend. but yeah other then that i don't have too much experience but i'm a pretty fast learner.

[dans rolla]

Yea their pretty simple cars to work on, only changed the head gasket on my girlfriends 71 the other day I'm looking for a 4age as it is for my ke70

[Camo_love]

i'll ensure that i keep my eye out for an engine or get quotes for imports.

 

then ensure i'm filling my piggy bank enough every pay day for this ever so expensive project (:

[Gizzys25]

There's a couple of AE71's for sale in the forsale section with 4AGE's that would make good doner cars for you.

These are setup ready to run but in bodys that look like they need replacing.

Best part you get everything to make yours go and get to see how and where everything goes.

And even see it running prior to pulling it apart.

Simplest method i can think of and all the hard work has been done by someone else.

Will save you a fortune.

 

Then sell the parts left over to recoup some of the costs

Edited June 17, 2012 by Gizzys25

[Camo_love]

yeah cheers for that, would be good to see how it's all set up prior to attempting it myself.

 

can also put my 4AC in the car and sell it off again.