what engine swaps have been done with the solara

[Somedude]

you guys are getting dumber and dumber. anybody rocking any kind of solara in the 904 that wants to run at gainesville let me know. unless you are scared of a 1.5 liter sohc surprise. also, just about $3500 in the complete project. go ahead make your assumptions, i'll be waiting for the right retard to actually challenge it.

I ain't scared of a 1.5L SOHC Civic engine, I driven a Civic with that engine. Two words: no torque.

[i20solara02i]

mandarinsolara

why are you even trying to bash on people on what they want to do on their car. people are just looking for option and idea on what motor they can put in the car. of couse it would be cheaper to mod a honda since there so much demand and parts out. ya, you can put 5k in a honda to get a 12sec car. but you have to consider that honda crx or civic don't even weight much to being with. ya you can have ricerocket but it wouuld still look like crap.

[Turbosolara]

lol look, this sohc civic owner maybe with turbo is doing the trash talk. but beware, he has manual window which is good for weight reduction!

i think if someone can make him do 20 pulls a day, he will say bye bye to his 1.5L

[PXLpainter]

im sry but this thread just made me laugh. thumbs down to some of you toyota retards.

hmmm $5k-$6k into solara for maybe mid 14's

or $5k-$6k into civic for high 12's?

Everytime I see you rag on somebody, it just makes me laugh and think of this genius idea you had once upon a time...

http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php? ... ke+removed

doh!

ROFLOL!!!

[Mandarinsolara]

well i tried to start off saying there are no options. and in the end there are still no options, but people keep asking and coming up with the most retarded solutions i have ever heard of in my life. like V8? come on... ive heard my 9 year old step-brother come up with better performance ideads than that. fwd 2jzgte? ive heard my exhaust fart out better ideas than that.

believe me, i was once the solara enthusiast. i also had to learn that solaras will not be fast. ive moved on, and im trying to help the open minded people out. switch to honda. the older honda stuff is a lot easier to start with. there are multiple FREE ecu tuning softwares available. parts for civics are like legos. it is the easiest crap ever to comprehend.

Somedude- 2100lbs doesnt need torque. just increased airflow, a DX tranny, aggressive(lean&mean) tune, and 9k rpms.

[Somedude]

Somedude- 2100lbs doesnt need torque. just increased airflow, a DX tranny, aggressive(lean&mean) tune, and 9k rpms.

Anyone who has experience in tuning a car knows that a car running lean is not good. Second, my family owned a 95 Civic LX for 10 years, don't you tell me that car is fast. Third, no way that car can hit 9000rpm with any mods, that engine block is not known for its strength. Why do you think most Civic modifiers opt for swapping motors?

I have seen a V8 engine swap done in a Honda CRX, don't believe me, search it up in Yahoo. If it is possible in a CRX then it is definitely the same with the Solara.

Don't say crap you don't know. You are known across the web as the model riceboy.

Peace out

[solow1605]

some fools are fags, like mandarin solara. Typical ricer thinks little civics can be fast. I'm from the bay where we have tons and TONS of fast cars. Civics get smashed on to the point where most people dont even run outside hondas anymore. You cannot get a civic to run 12's for 6 g's unless you buy it already running 12's. To get a civic to run 12's you need a built engine and a turbo or an ITR engine w/ heavy bolt ons or boost. Thats gonna be a lot buddy. Stop tryin to play games like you're all hard, come to the bay and get your ass stomped on in your ricer all-too-creative-crap. I have cars from every make that would be glad to walk all over any all-too-creative-crap you drive. all-too-creative-crap i'll run your solara in my xB and your civic in my solara. We'll see whats up then

[---CAMRAZY---]

im sry but this thread just made me laugh. thumbs down to some of you toyota retards.

hmmm $5k-$6k into solara for maybe mid 14's

or $5k-$6k into civic for high 12's?

Everytime I see you rag on somebody, it just makes me laugh and think of this genius idea you had once upon a time...

http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php? ... ke+removed

doh!

ROFLOL!!!

LMFFAO!!!!!! Someone boot this kid out of here!!!



Milt

[solow1605]

Kid's a square....

[lightear]

If a friggin skyline engine can go in a friggin mustang....then....

...i'm sure nething is possible. Engine swaps are a good thing to talk about and it should never be discouraged. I think its also about the love for our cars. The thought of disbanding my solara just becuase I want something more powerful is quite sad. But hey, I know why some people do it. It is the ideal way of approaching this.

I have to agree it all comes down to money, time....and most important of all.... the love for your solara.

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Oh and btw...not to bash on american muscle cars: I loved the mustang in tokyo drift, but i found it FRIGGIN odd and retarded to be used as "the car" at the end of the movie.

[PXLpainter]

Exactly!

Not only that - its the heart of car modding! I mean, C'mon - doing ANYTHING to your car isn't going to increase the value of it... so why do anything at all if you're looking at it like that I say!

Major modding should never be discouraged if attempted in the interest of being different or trying something extreme... (and I don't mean removing the air filtration system and chance ruining your engine just to be different!)

I applaud anyone who attempts to go radical - after all, it has nothing to do with be cost-concious, etc... its about the love of the car and the thrill of daring to try something outrageous! Hell - if I had the Time, $$ and place to do it, I wouldn't hesitate for a second!:D

[hskrsolara]

haha PXL, great addition with josh's avatar...I almost fell out of my chair!

[made in china]

There's many diff ways too look at performance. Some guys think that going fast in a straight line after a roll (powerful Hondas), or going fast in corners (Miatas) is the end all of performance arguments. Then you get guys that really have fast cars that launch hard, like AWD turbo cars...these cars beat up even the fastest Hondas in the straights because fast Hondas have a hard time getting power down, and they need things like "rolling starts". And these AWD cars even take down the Miata boys. Whatever. Everyone puts a spin on it. The guys I used to work with all had big towing trucks, and they go out into the parking lot after work and hook up two trucks with chains and see who could pull harder. These guys could care less how fast there truck was, they wanted to see whose truck could haul more toys on the weekend.

I don't care about fast little cars that have been stripped of all their safety systems for the sake of going fast. These cars are noisy and unsafe, and absolutely no fun in bad traffic. My Integra could tear it up, but it seemed every other guy or redneck chick in a SUV or truck had my car in their cross hairs. I like a safe car that's comfortable...so you can verbally vomit all you want about how fast your SOHC is, but if we strap your SOHC to my V6 5 speed Solara, I'm gonna drag your butt around all day. Then we can try taking our cars and smashing them head on into each other. We'll see what car performs better then. That's my spin on things.

BTW, Mandarinsolara, I don't even closely think the Solara is a performance machine, unless you consider floating on clouds to be "performance". I'm just sticking it out with this car, and other people don't realize that a I6 or Domestic V8 or RWD really can't be realistically installed in these cars. But even then you shouldn't call someone a "retard" just because they don't understand that highly technical stuff as well as you surely do.

[solow1605]

Thats the funny part, half the people on this board know more than he does and a lot of them are posting in this thread. I still cant get over what he said about how to make a civic "fast". That was possibly the stupidest thing ever as is he. If you REALLY want to start getting into fast cars for that kind of money, spend it on an LT1 camaro. Tons and tons more potential than a civic.

[PDX SuperSolara]

Some swaps are possible, but the 1MZ can be made to produce a fair amount of power by itself if you don't feel the need to go crazy and blow it up as I know some people have. I personally know of at least one automatic Solara with 275 HP at the wheels. It is supercharged of course and has various other upgrades but nothing too difficult and still passes emissions. The other Toy V6 engines would probably be nearly impossible to confiqure with a S/C to better that power, and be difficult to pass emissions as well. More HP is always better, but in this platform, I don't think it is worth the trouble or expense. I would look at rear wheel drive to better get the power down. By the way, torque steer is not a problem as was illuded to earlier, it's just the lack of traction even with sticky tires. But at 30 to 120 you can still surprise a lot of folks!