KA #5 or VG swap? pros and cons

[ant]

I really haven't been that hard on my engines but #4 (a rebuild of #3) now has oil in the water and water in the oil.  I'm trying to decide whether to replace the KA with a low milage salvage and build it up or just cut out the 1st 150-200HP's of my journey by doing the VGTT swap. I know about the new hood and custom drive shaft, but any other suggestions you can make would be appreciated.

[Jeff240sx]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ant @ May 02 2002,01:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">or just cut out the 1st 150-200HP's of my journey by doing the VGTT swap. I know about the new hood and custom drive shaft, but any other suggestions you can make would be appreciated.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Get a JDM spec vg30dett. &nbsp;Thats my only suggestion. &nbsp;
-Jeff

[crazycuban]

<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> Your title is pretty funny...

Anyways, why would you get a JDM TT motor? &nbsp;Don't US spec make 300 or 310, and JDM make 280 (because of the limit)? &nbsp;US would be cheaper and easier to get too...

[ant]

I got a price from the local Nissan tech heads/speed shop. &nbsp;The guy wants to do it, and he has a wrecked tt that he'll sell me the whole thing for $4K. &nbsp;But, his rough estimate for install of engine, custom exhaust, customized front mount intercooler adapted from an sr conversion and four wheel break swap is another $6K. &nbsp;I'm just not ready to put $10K in a 10 year old car that I can't insure and then I would want to do another $10k in suspension and interior mods. It's just too much money right now.