W.A conversion cost from EA82 to EJ
- Kalbarri_baru
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W.A conversion cost from EA82 to EJ
Heya,
Had a good look at the benifits of an EJ over an EA82 fitted with a weber, and finally made a decision to do the conversion to an EJ, however would anyone have a rough idea how long the conversion would take and an estimate of the full costs involved, eg: motor, gearbox (the whole shabang).
Oh yeah my L Series is a 93 Sportswagon, Manual, Dual range (want to keep the dual range), carby, and 2inch lift
Cheers WayneO................
Had a good look at the benifits of an EJ over an EA82 fitted with a weber, and finally made a decision to do the conversion to an EJ, however would anyone have a rough idea how long the conversion would take and an estimate of the full costs involved, eg: motor, gearbox (the whole shabang).
Oh yeah my L Series is a 93 Sportswagon, Manual, Dual range (want to keep the dual range), carby, and 2inch lift
Cheers WayneO................
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About $3000 if you do it yourself and by new parts like clutch, adapter plate, t-belt, W-pump, seals, doner car or engine, getting the loom stripped, Radiator to suit etc
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- El_Freddo
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And buy all the other parts from KPM (aka guyph ^^^).guyph_01 wrote:About $3000 if you do it yourself and by new parts like clutch, adapter plate, t-belt, W-pump, seals, doner car or engine, getting the loom stripped, Radiator to suit etc
Seriously you can do it for a lot less - it all depends on how you go about it, how much of a rush you're in and if you do the majority of the work yourself if not all of it.
Firstly parts: Do your homework and shop carefully - you can pick up some good parts out there if you're careful with how you do it.
You could get a complete vehicle and strip out what you need - you'll have everything there except for the high pressure fuel pump - look up VN external EFI pump, it's cheaper than a VL turbo pump and does the same job. You can use this radiator by cutting the lower support frame, do a search on this one as a few have done it. Or you could have a new custom radiator made up or do with what you've got and hope for the best (not the way to do it but again, some have).
As for the water pump and cam belt kit look into fleabay motors in the US. I got my kit from there for less than half of what I could get over here. Jump on rockauto dot com and find the part number of a kit you're interested in there then look for it on fleabay. I went with a dayco kit. You MUST replace the water pump - if you don't it will only cost you later down the track, either in time (if you're lucky) or maybe a cooked engine (if you're unlucky).
You will also need to sort out some thing with the exhaust. You either get a custom one or do a cut and shut to shorten the rear section of the stock exhaust - it's not ideal but it will get you through until you get a custom one sorted. 2.25 inch is a good size, and depending on your taste you can have it made to be rumbly and louder or kept quiet
You also need to look into your clutch setup and adaptor plate too.
I hope this helps you out.
Cheers
Bennie
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Thats KPM's "special morning price for you sir"guyph_01 wrote:About $3000 if you do it yourself and by new parts like clutch, adapter plate, t-belt, W-pump, seals, doner car or engine, getting the loom stripped, Radiator to suit etc
but it really depends on what you want.
Engine ECU and loom 300-1000 dollars depending on what motor.
Getting Subarino to strip the loom starting price of 250 dollars (remember starting price and he may have changed this)
clutch kit 150 -300 dollars
timing belt kit and water pump 200 - 600 dollars
Custom Radiator up to 350 dollars
"L" series MPFI fuel tank, pump and fuel lines from memory 150 dollars the last time I sourced one.
cost of labor 110 dollars an hour (or 12 cartons of CC an hour)
it is worth doing, my vortex was converted in 2 days (it was MPFI to start with)
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Cheers for the info, so much to digest, just waiting for the neurofen to kick in.
Looks like I will be getting a second L that is already converted, have seen a few advertised every now and then on both ebay and gumtree, so might be worth waiting for one around the $2500 to $3000 mark.
Again Cheers
Looks like I will be getting a second L that is already converted, have seen a few advertised every now and then on both ebay and gumtree, so might be worth waiting for one around the $2500 to $3000 mark.
Again Cheers
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Jules, Without you labour cost it come up to about $2600 max
u forgot the gearbox engine adaptor plate
Redrilled flywheel
and all the little cost that add up etc etc
u forgot the gearbox engine adaptor plate
Redrilled flywheel
and all the little cost that add up etc etc
The project, EJ22 --->>> EJ25 Quad CAM:D touring wagon
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I second that !!TOONGA wrote:Talk to RSR when you are drving along the beach from Horrocks to Kallbari
There are ways around doing this which work much better in my opinionguyph_01 wrote:u forgot the gearbox engine adaptor plate
Redrilled flywheel
and all the little cost that add up etc etc
You know you are getting old when the candles on your birthday cake start to cost more than the cake itself.
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