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Originally Posted by ka-titties
what's so different?? more purple?
you can do it for 3500 if you can do things yourself like make mounts and exhaust work. i have under $2k into mine but i built my own mounts, built my own exhaust, and did all my own wiring.
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Cute
no i just did things differently then what i see most people doing for their VQ swaps
motor: 2000 (first motor had a issue and had to buy a 2nd long block)
mounts: 300 (McKinney replicas ebay)
Shifter bracket: 200 (ebay)
Driveshaft: 410 (raw brokerage)
Clutch n flywheel: 450 (competition stage 4 clutch and ultralight flywheel)
Gas pedal and obd 2 port: 200 (bought a box of wiring which included the needed parts)
Osiris ecu flash n tune: 350 (from Z1 motorsports)
Sohc PS lines and resivor: 40 (junkyard)
FPR and gauge: 90 (Fuel labs n marshall)
Stainless fuel lines and AN's and rail adaptor: 270 (earls, jegs racing and ebay)
Headers and modification to fit: 500 (megan racing 350z headers then rebuilt to fit my s14 and clear everything via local fab shop)
Stainless steel clutch line: 45 (ebay)
Z33 slave cylinder: 35 (part store)
Tach: 140 (autometer in dash tach and digital tach adapter)
Gauges: 200 (auto meter oil,water gauges with block adapters)
Coolant crossover pipes to work with my radiator: 100 (local fab shop)
misc nissan nuts, bolts, gaskets and belts: 300 (oem nissan)
Custom Y pipe with cat for single exhaust exit: 300 (local fab shop)
Blox intake spacer: 100 (ebay)
Intake pipe and Blox flow stack: 100 ( ebay n zilvia)
All new motor hoses: 250 (OEM nissan)
actually this list is $6380.. and that does not count i wired my harness myself, fluids and probably another 2-300 in misc things like random hoses, nuts n bolts and different things i needed to get it all together.
Im not saying i did things WAAAY different .. i just spent my money differently is more of a accurate statement