2012 Nissan Versa 1.8L: LKQ Swap

Kinja'd!!! by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 06/29/2017 at 11:53

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STARS: 7


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Car has 68,000 Bay Area highway miles and a fried 1.8L engine. I paid $1,700 for the car and $800 for an LKQ engine with 29k miles.

#redneckdriveway

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Replies (27)

Kinja'd!!! "deprecated account" (savethei4s)
06/29/2017 at 11:57, STARS: 0

Are you just replacing the stock 1.8?

Kinja'd!!! "Wacko" (wacko--)
06/29/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 4

once you remove the old engine we need a pic of you in the empty engine bay and or video of you in engine bay making engine noises.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
06/29/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 2

As is tradition.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:03, STARS: 1

Yes. Not enough room for an LS7.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 1

Shall do.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 1

Promise.

Kinja'd!!! "LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
06/29/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 0

QR25 swap! Too late, but a Versa Spec V would’ve been neat

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 0

Nope. Pure practicality.

Kinja'd!!! "random001" (random001)
06/29/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 0

Is that a different engine? Looks just as nissan...

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/29/2017 at 12:12, STARS: 0

Where I live, you can’t do that because of neighborhood covenants.

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/29/2017 at 12:12, STARS: 0

What are your plans with the car? Drive it? Sell it?

Kinja'd!!! "deprecated account" (savethei4s)
06/29/2017 at 12:13, STARS: 1

:(

Kinja'd!!! "Wacko" (wacko--)
06/29/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 0

not with that attitude there ain’t

Kinja'd!!! "Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
06/29/2017 at 12:22, STARS: 0

Looks like good clean fun.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:24, STARS: 0

The engine on the pallet is the LKQ replacement. I can’t say how Nissan it looks, but that car sure is nice to work on.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:26, STARS: 2

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O.C. does not approve of fascism. Or neighborhood associations.

But if I had your garage, I could do it there.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:27, STARS: 2

Sell it at cost to First Spawn of O.C..

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:29, STARS: 0

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Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0

The car is very nice to work on.

Kinja'd!!! "random001" (random001)
06/29/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0

Yeah, I don’t know Nissan engine designations. That’s really all I was trying to say. Is it a newer engine? Moar powah?

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:33, STARS: 0

Same engine, fewer miles. Chassis is 68k, but engine is 29k.

Kinja'd!!! "random001" (random001)
06/29/2017 at 12:35, STARS: 0

Well....time to turbocharge!

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 12:51, STARS: 0

My hope is for a cute, dependable, half-price car for an adult daughter in graduate school. I’ll let her buy it from me at my cost by making payments.

Kinja'd!!! "random001" (random001)
06/29/2017 at 12:54, STARS: 0

So...wait....so there are people that don’t need a racecar, Because Racecar!?

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 13:03, STARS: 1

That’s what the faded blue ‘71 GMC van in the background is for.

Kinja'd!!! "BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo" (bluemazda2)
06/29/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 0

Well shit.

I’d been imagining that you bought a 2012 Versa Sedan. This is quite the plot twist.

Kinja'd!!! "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
06/29/2017 at 13:28, STARS: 1

I’d have preferred a sedan, but this is what popped up. $2500 with the LKQ engine, but needs tires.