Quick Q:

[sidewayz bo]

Saw a real good starter chassis on craigslist and it's a SOHC with a rod knock on cylinder1 so that'll go eventually and THEN i saw an S14 Ka24DE with, harness, ecu, and everything else....

main question. will i be running into many problems swapping an s14 ka24de into an 89 that WAS SOHC? it should have harness and ECU and whatnot which will speed the process up a lot, but i know there are differences like coils vs. distributor and other little things, and i'm trying to give myself a good parts list before i look into purchasing.

any help is welcomed! thanks in advance

[ConeDodger240]

power steering is the only thing that's different..its no big deal though as long as you have a dohc harness/ecu and some dohc ps lines

[sidewayz bo]

awesome. and i can live without power steering for a while, damn ps lines are so expensive lol but thanks that helps a lot

[LoFoSho]

ISIS stainless steel power steering line is $100... cheap alternative to $300+ OEM line.

and its fantastic...

[ConeDodger240]

oh, add gauge cluster to differences as well.

[neverlift]

you dont NEED dohc ps lines, sohc can work , need to cut the pressure sensor off and shorten the line, then flare it with a 90* flare fitting and enjoy the cheap sohc to dohc ps line.... I trashed mine when my new chassis had dohc lines...

you can wire in the 14 motor , however I would get a 13 de lower intake manifold/ecu/harness to avoid the ob2 shit (either way your gonna be without consult)


sohc cluster can be wired into a de swap, just run a wire from coil(IIRC ground) to TAM (cluster side). They wire like an aftermarket tach(3 wires, + - signal)

[sidewayz bo]

you can wire in the 14 motor , however I would get a 13 de lower intake manifold/ecu/harness to avoid the ob2 shit (either way your gonna be without consult)

?? the car will already have that SOHC harness and ecu, so should i just get a s13kade lower intake manny and then everything will just be plug and play? i honestly dont feel like messin with obd2 at all. but if i keep my obd1 harness is everything going to plug in right?

[neverlift]

well you can and I have used a sohc harness on a dual cam motor(I even ran a sohc ecu(chipped and kinda heavily mod'd) but the start up timing was kinda erratic until fully warmed) The knock sensor wires will need to be wired to the sohc ait sensor harness and a couple other things I cannot recall off the top of my head. I'de get the 14 motor and find someone to sell you a lower de intake mani/harness/ecu.

The sohc ecu only ran the car with a huge retard at the dizzy(or a tooth on the gear and add some ignition) and some pretty smooth work on my part. A few pieces of code had to be altered to let the stupid 8 bit understand it was seeing 16bit info in a couple places....

anyone interestead should take a peak over on hybridka but I am unaware of the sites current state(been almost 2 years) may be gone