Was curious about going different routes on power. Either turbo, S/C, or an LS swap. I was curious of an LS Swap because I hear these engines are darn light, and supposedly get better mpgs than the F20 due to its power pulling little weight. Than again that F20 is sort of the soul of that car. I looked into it and was just curious how these guys got the power steering to work out. Between the three, what route would you take? Turbo/Supercharger or a swap?

 

I've always liked the idea of an ls or bigger engine swap in general but i doubt i'd personally ever consider doing it. The f series, when boosted, will make good power reliably so why spend the headache swapping it unless thats 100% the route you want to go?

Your best bet is to find someone who has swapped their personal car and get as much info about what they had to do then make your choice from there. From what I hear, its not a bolt in kind of deal. You'll have to cut certain parts of the car away to fit and custom fabricate a few things to get it in there.

 

An s2k you dont rev the crap out of would be lame in my opinion. Only way I would do this is if I built it to rev to 8k+

 

when i did my swap i had to do several similar things as far as moving the steering rack and also the front crossmember, pm me if your considering the LS swap and i can point you in the right direction

 

I love those motors but if given the choice I would probably go turbo. I am pretty sure turbo would be your best bang for your buck power wise as well. That being said.. an ls swapped s2000 would be a lot of fun!

 

one turbo and one ls swapped. thats my dream and the ls one would be my DD

 

i'm in the same boat lol after finishing my built 2J 00' im swapping an LS1 and T56 into my daily 02'

 

Oh forgot thats the other option, 2JZ-GTE

 

relatively easy to mount if you don't care to maintain the correct weight distribution, if i did it over again i would have started with the LS motor platform just due to the kit being out for it! my 2JZ slowly edged its way closer and closer to my firewall and now it is sitting roughly 2" further back into the firewall as i said just because i would rather maintain the weight distribution and the handling charcteristics of the vehicle

 

Isn't the 2Jz swap (all said and done) like 16K? Talked to a few guys including some dude that does the swaps in FL and its upwards of 14-16k