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"Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow" (chriskf) 09/15/2016 at 08:44 • Filed to: None

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Brilliant Idea #1: FR-Sublime

Someone needs to be the first to put one of these:

Into one of these:

And get this vanity plate:

petebmwm > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow 09/15/2016 at 08:54

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vKOc…

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > petebmwm 09/15/2016 at 08:58

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Hadn’t heard that before. I’m a fan.

MonkeePuzzle > petebmwm 09/15/2016 at 09:13

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fresh for 88, still fresh :D

petebmwm > MonkeePuzzle 09/15/2016 at 09:52

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You suckers!!!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow 09/15/2016 at 10:11

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The foil here is that the K motor is meant for FWD applications, an F motor would be much easier to swap since it’s already oriented for RWD. The problem is, then, that your car would remain an FRS.

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/15/2016 at 10:30

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Well of course the swap would likely be more difficult than an F motor, but the uniqueness is what would make it even cooler.

Putting K-series motors in RWD applications definitely isn’t unheard of, and surprisingly common for an originally transverse motor swapped into a RWD platform:

It’s even been done on some that originally came with an F series motor. ;)

The F20c/F22c are awesome motors too, I just like the idea of the k-series swap. Also, the combo of a K24 with a K20 head has a lot of torque potential, and gets the added benefit over the F motor of i-VTEC.

Plus, it plays into my theme of a vanity plate that’s also a hat tip to a Sublime song. haha

And the car remaining an FR-S certainly isn’t a problem. ;)

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow 09/15/2016 at 10:38

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Interesting. I’m not really up on my Honda stuff, I wonder if it shares a common block, or at least block architecture, with the K. I have a coworker who says his last car was an Integra that he swapped an “S2000 motor” into. I always assumed he meant a K20, but I asked him and he said he pulled it from a wrecked S2k. Maybe they all have the same or similar motor mounts, which would make it easy to go between FWD and RWD.

But if you can easily do a RWD K, then “KRS ONE” would be awesome!

SkyNet > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow 09/15/2016 at 10:45

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I know because of KRS-One

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Snuze: Needs another Swede 09/15/2016 at 10:49

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F20/22c motors have been swapped into FWD cars for awhile now too.

Those Honda guys are always putting different motors in their cars. haha

Idk that the K swap into the FR-S would necessarily be easy, since it’d be the first one ever (AFAIK). Going from one manf. to another adds added difficulty (wiring/engine management probably being the toughest part). Getting custom motor mounts made can be pricey, but certainly something a good machine shop could make.

K Miata is actually a small company owned by a Chicagoland track guy who first did the swap on his own car, and then got enough interest to start producing kits for others to do the swap themselves.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow 09/15/2016 at 11:13

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Yeah, I started googling around after posting that and found that there have been a fair number of F20 -> FWD swaps, and now there’s even a company that makes a kit to make the swap easier.

Hondas are crazy, they are like legos, just mix and match parts. I had a friend in the Navy who had a “mini-me” swap (I think that’s what they call it) where it was a Civic coupe with a B20 short block, B16 VTEC head, and B18 Integra ECU. It was a surprisingly quick little car.