LS Miata SWAP COST and FULL BUILD COST! Under the $10k Budget?

all right today is the day we're gonna go over the entire cost of the LS lot Miata not only the cost for the swap itself and if we made it under a 10 gram budget but the costs to build the entire car if you wanted to go out and build this exact car tomorrow how much would it cost you how much did it cost me for those of you that are new here this is my LS swap Miata it is a five three and women in black it's got an elegant compact 12-18 springs should be making around 320 horsepower right now very simple setup I didn't want to go too crazy it is a drift car it's got a full cage it's got momo seats etc b/c coilovers all bushings dual caliper rear drop knuckles front and rear etc etc so this is not necessarily a common drift car I ended up with this car in kind of a funny way friend of mine my friend Adam and I went to go buy a car for his girlfriend at the time for like Valentine's Day or something and the car would total cat sucked to me and it's kind of a waste of a trip let's look around and I found this far for 3,200 bucks and it was already turbo mega squirted 1.8 like roll bar hardtop we literally had everything you want it was such a good deal so I bought it you know I had no I was actually trying to buy 240 and I ended up buying him iana you know is my third one but it just kind of like fell into my lap basically so I had to do a clutch in it did a question it put the motor back in all new seals and everything two events later blew the motor holding motor back out put another motor in two events later blew the motor begin so that point I was like alright I'm done with this I'm gonna rebuild the motor gap Turing's do everything and then I'm gonna do a giveaway on the car I just I'm over it I bought a Corvette that was gonna be my drift car and then everyone on the channel talked some sense into me you know my killer this car is like what started your channel you can't you can't get rid of it and I've never really got sentimentally attached to cars but this car does have a special place kind of in my heart you know especially after this so I decided not to do the giveaway and I started to draw a drifting it again and then I fell back in love with it I remembered how fun these cars are a drift because they're very snappy on transition they're very fast and drift even with like not a very big tire and on a very grippy tire you can keep up a lot of faster cars and that's kind of how this whole build idea developed and why we were now here I told myself in the motor blow up again I was gonna swap something into it didn't know what but something and you look around online and you get scared out of LS swaps I've always wanted to do an LS offer to me on it because I think it's so cool it's like the AC Cobra of this generation it's a light car with a very capable powerplant with virtually unlimited potential not very heavy because it's all aluminum super similar work on you can find parts for this everywhere if you're in Indiana at a race event you can go to the store and buy a water pump you can buy a starter you know it's a very good powerplant for an American car that you're going to race because parts availability is everywhere and that's a big factor for me obviously the power you can make solid power naturally aspirated you don't have to turbo it and create heat soak and run into issues where you want to wants to overheat on long stints you know it's just a very solid platform and you people love LS s people hate LS is but it does make sense for a lot of reasons I understand not liking the cool factor you know turbo noises all that stuff I love that stuff too well had all mostly all turbo cars but you just can't argue with the simplicity and the logic of an LS know a problem is you go in the forms and you get scared out of doing an LS swap because everyone says oh yeah LS soft supposed to cost fifteen to twenty grand never seen it done for anywhere near that it always ends up being way more so I started looking into it I was like man this is gonna be expensive maybe I'll do the Ford 302 software I remembered monster Miata made the 500 slot for the Miatas and I went on their website I'm like oh wait they make it LS kit now so I when I talked to them about how it all worked and what all was needed and whatever and it's under five grand for a full swap kit for an LS so it's like crap well I guess we might as well do it and I tallied up I'm like we should definitely be able to do it for under 10 grand so that is kind of where the build started putting in LS in this car for under 10 grand with the monster Miata swap kick that's the only thing that made it doable before that the swap kit alone was like close to 10 grand so once you drop that price down and everything else can kind of fall online and kind of just the overall purpose of the cars you know it's it's probably making about 320 horsepower right now so even with 205 are comp tires in the rear it should be super reliable because it's not a big enough tire or a heavy enough car to really break the drivetrain the drivetrain is built for six seven hundred and with those tires which are only 70 bucks a tire it will be super fast and drift I should be able to keep up with some of the bigger tires higher horsepower cars but while spinning way less money to drive so that's kind of like the whole purpose of this car plus I just like the way Miata SH Drive in general pure tidbits before we get started on cost I have an ECU master's p.m. you set up so I rewire the whole car with it's basically the little computer that is all your fuses and relays it covers all of your wiring so good of having a fuse a relay and a switch it's all solid-state infinitely resettable etc it's like a really solid setup that's probably like one of the cooler things on the car it's pricey but I like it so anyway that's pretty much the rundown on the car so I guess we'll get started into the cost of everything have it all written down I will also post this on online like in a link below or something download link or whatever so that you guys can see through it and we'll run a tally on the screen as we go so it's not just like this this is this total ok now that you guys know the purpose of the car and why and you know what it was built for and the reasons why we chose this car in this route and all that stuff which is very important and kind of crucial to understanding the car and the budget and all that stuff we're gonna go over what you guys are here for which is how much it all costs do things keep in mind 1 Miata swaps are very expensive just in general no matter what you swap into it you generally have to do an aftermarket subframe and that is what drives the cost up compared to say an S 13 or something where you just need mounts and maybe an oil pan so that is a big factor and the other thing to keep in mind we did get a help from some companies which is very fortunate but I'm not factoring that into the budget I'm not budgeting what I spent on budgeting what you would spent if you went out tomorrow I bought all these parts to build this car so that's what we're gonna go over we're going to start with the swap itself and then we'll get into like the cost of it the whole car so we'll just kind of run through what the swap kit comes with not gonna go over the prices of everything because I'll be on the screen but basically you get the everything to convert the axles so you get the axles and spacers to boot to the band's need to get a set of reman axles the four to 8a axles and swap the shafts over and boots and all that stuff to make them work and get the brooch tubs to make the axles fit in the hubs in the back because obviously the spines are different and woman I'm right here with steam fitting fans clutch master cylinder clutch hose and fittings clutch master cylinder adapter to bolt it to the factory position conditioned crossmember engine mounts diff hanger radiator hanger so basically a radiator mount that mounts to under the core support sway bar mounts which you drop down the sway bar to give you clearance you know under the oil pan otherwise it wouldn't fit in differential torque mount the mast motorsports LS conversion oil and then the big-ticket item the customs upbringing so again that's what drives the cost of these swaps because you have to do it so a total for the entire swap kit the way I did it because I didn't need a few things end up being forty six eighty four okay the next most important thing or biggest part of the swap the engine so I went there out that I would not suggest knowing what I am now and piece together the engine and drivetrain and stuff so I bought a five three truck motor an aluminum block think to Ellen for I don't recall maybe I'll put it on the screen if I can remember what it is but it's a five to the aluminum box truck motor I got it with accessories intake manifold wiring harness ECU didn't come on the starter coil packs problem is the truck accessories will not fit they mount the alternator very high so you have to convert to F body Camaro style accessories or GTO style accessories intake manifold doesn't fit also very high aside to convert to a you know LS one LS 206 you know any one of those style intake manifolds and that's where it starts to get kind of expensive so we run through kind of the cost of 750 for the engine 75 for the g8 manifolds which is kind of what this kids design around fitting 100 bucks to get those ceramic coated 200 bucks for the intake manifold which is kind of confusing I originally buy for 400 bucks as it was supposed to come with fuel injectors fuel rail the auto body they had a holley 90 mil on it it's supposed to be like everything I needed turns out he didn't have the injectors he didn't have the rails that were right I he had some other rails and he also the throttle body ended up having issues so he ended up giving it to me for 200 bucks like after all these issues were discovered truning upgrade 50 bucks soul packs 50 bucks bought both of those from him as well training upgrade was new full packs are used obviously plugs at the parts store 24 bucks plug wires 26 bucks just ACDelco ones Fama's on very simple per vet intake with the actual air intake for 25 bucks off Facebook marketplace which is a pretty good deal because they were all at to 300 bucks on eBay so I got lucky finding that one all Steve found it technically so I went with the sloppy mechanics stage to set up as he calls it so at the elegant cam which was 228 bucks impact 1218 Springs I don't remember the exact specs off the cam out the top of my head I think it's like 585 585 the lift and like to 28 to 30 duration or to 32 32 somewhere that rain but it's very affordable cam and then the springs are super cheap that's a solid setup because it's under 400 bucks and you don't need to check piston to valve clearance it's not so crazy that you need to do all this stuff forget like double springs or anything crazy like that it's just a very simple cam upgrade that's affordable and makes good power bought a war throttle body for 140 bucks it's just a eBay aluminum like 90 mil throttle body very good reviews cuz my Holley was messed up the plate was like Dean it wouldn't seal all the way so wouldn't never I all right and it was just kind of a mess so I just replaced it you need to get the GM dipstick tube and dipstick for the mast pan it gives you the part numbers on the mast website I originally bought an aftermarket one and I had a bunch of issues with it it did not seal well I all poured oil out and that also read way too low so I overfilled it filling it up to its correct level so I took that out for the stock one in doesn't leak at all anyway so definitely would recommend just using a stock one I replace the exhaust manifold bolts because obviously some of them are broken there are big heat cycled for 70,000 miles which that engine had 70,000 miles on it I don't think I ever mentioned that but it was a low mileage engine but I replace those it's 15 bucks for all the manifold bolts which is totally worth doing so you don't have to fight with old hardware accessories so again this is why piecing something together gets expensive because I need to convert all the flooding accessories so the alternator is 88 bucks starter was 50 bucks power steering pump with 62 bucks power steering whine and fitting is this you would have to do either way but the line was 40 bucks fittings or 35 bucks that's to convert the rack to the pump and you have like a a n PTFE hose with 90 degree fittings on it the power steering and alternator bracket I went with sex innovations on this because it was easier than hunting down OAM ones if people want an arm and a leg for the OEM ones because they know people need Camaro you know f-body accessories there's a really nice billet come with all the hardware you need because even if you buy a soft Camaro power steering bracket you're probably not gonna have the bolts you're gonna have to source the bolts and all that stuff so to me it made sense to go with their stuff it's very well priced for what it is it comes with everything you need all the hardware and whatnot so I definitely highly suggest doing that if you do piece it together that 128 bucks for both of those manual belt tensioner with 60 bucks you can buy just a stock one I just wanted a manual one in case I had issues but it's slipping in the water pump was 61 bucks luckily I had water pump bolts because my engine came with a water pump on it but again it needed to be changed along with the crank boy he's 68 books I need to get a new serpentine belt with just twenty bucks that was all the accessory drive stuff while the motor is out I went ahead and replaced the front cover rear cover comes with a new front main seal and a front cover gasket so it was 35 bucks for the front 44 for the rear you could buy just the seals for cheaper but it was easier to just buy it all pre-installed bolted on ready to go valve cover gaskets are twenty bucks I put a new pan gasket on it since I was changing the pan anyway that was thirty bucks and that's pretty much it for the engine stuff so now I move on to the transmission and adapter plate so that's kit it's kind of designer on a t56 if you guys have looked in LS swaps you know a t56 SR exorbitantly expensive they're very pricey I mean you're looking at like two grand for a beat one so see neo nine transmissions I bought wanted for 500 bucks it's got a better ratios for for track driving first to fit this close ratio sixth is your overdrive whereas this t56 verse through fourth is your close ratio fifth is your overdrive six is double so that and the t56 is don't shift as well and from what I've seen and what I understand the CEO nine seems to be a little stronger so all-in-all it's a better transmission you just have to adapt it to the engine so to do that we need a GK tech shifter which is 190 bucks it's a shortened shifter location to move the shifter forward as far as we could it's still a little far back from OEM but it's not bad at all just outside of the shifter hole weight obviously need a conversion driveshaft 110 bucks for the 350z front yoke 28 bucks for the Ford 88 rear yoke and then 200 what was it 232 to get it assembled and the actual tube and whatnot in balance so total for the driveshaft was 367 bucks the 48 dip was 40 bucks I got a steal on that because it was a friend of a friend and he this guy bought it and thought it was the wrong where he shoe he thought it was like a to something ratio so I bought it for 40 bucks expecting to have to change the ratio and it turned out to be 327 like worked out perfect so I was the ratios looking for so again to make the trans to the engine you need an adapter plate kit so the collins plate and clutch is $6.99 so that's for the adapter plate to adapt the t56 bellhousing and the clutch disc to work with the ls1 flywheel ls1 pressure plate and then 350z basically the input shaft slave cylinder is 92 bucks why will seventy eight bucks pressure plate 185 256 bellhousing 270 there's between 270 and 230 you can find them for 270 if you just kind of wait a few days and wait till one pops up for that and that's like brand new I think I mean at least mine whose been brand new and then I went ahead and did a remote bleeder because otherwise the bleeder is like in the bell housing and it's kind of difficult to get to so it's basically just a brake line that comes out and then you have your little bleeder nipple right out there super easy access so I did that in hindsight I should have just pieced that together instead of buying them like kit which is just then piecing it together for you now what I ran like a three foot hose all the way up to the collect master cylinder so I can just put it in there and like weed it by myself but I didn't do that so the total fee adapter plate and everything was 13:54 wiring wise I decided to go with conversion harness you can make it work yourself and kind of scratch through your harness and figure out how to power it and you know eliminate stuff use the factory giant fuse walk or whatever but for 500 bucks you send it off I send it to LSX specialties Andy over there and got the harness rebuilt so it takes out everything you don't need real ohms it heat shrinks it paint is anything you need like I needed my injector clips change and you'd flex fuel sensor wire add in and then turns it into a three wire harness so he basically makes a little tiny fuse box that has all of your engine power stuff that you need and then you just need to run Cox and power key on power and ground so simple like makes it all ice swaps cake like it is the way to go for sure fuel systems this is where things get tricky because I bought the intake manifold and it needed injectors and it needed fuel where else well they have target fuel or is a cheaper so they don't get just a fuel pressure regulator and then I'll just upgrade the injectors to own do 85 and I'll just do only whine because I want to do 80 probably because if I'm gonna do this I might as well upgrade it and then I can do 85 and we went down the rabbit hole with the fuel system and I'm glad we did because it's worthwhile to have it upgraded you know we can handle pretty much you know up to five six hundred horsepower with the setup we have now but it was you know it did cost us to do so so the injectors were 459 the rails were 120 the fittings were two hundred and one dollars of the wine was under ninety six dollars filter was ninety dollars regulator was one hundred and sixty and the pump was 148 that's all Dietrich stuff with DEET works on everything there fittings are like impeccable quality and I figure if I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it right so I just went through and used their stuff for everything the entire fuel system custom-built stainless exhaust so this one's kind of confusing because you could get an exhausting pretty cheaply on something like this if you just use like galvanized and on mandrel bent pipe I mean you could gently make one yourself with a fork score while there this varies all over the place in Tim you did it at grinding our garage as a friend of mine so he didn't kill me on the price but you be expected to pay about a thousand dollars for a custom stainless exhaust like that maybe a little more maybe a little less depending on where you took it and how extensive they went with it hardware this is just a bunch of random stuff like I had to buy bellhousing bolts I had to I clutch pressure plate bolts and buy bolts for like the diff hanger to mount the diff you know just a bunch of little stuff trans mount here and there added all my receipts up and it was like 25 bucks total for all the random hardware I had to buy expansion tank I haven't built it yet but you need one because this kit moves the radiator under the core support which gives you a lot of room in front of the engine but that mr.phil point below the highest point of the LS cooling system so I need to add an expansion tank that brings the fill point above the highest point in the engine which is gonna be about 40 bucks in material for me to build it myself you can find them for like fifty to eighty bucks if you just want to buy one and put it on but I'm gonna build one of myself just to make it fit nice and not be in the way and work the way I want to metal for the radiator support and corner so I had to weld in basically a bard of clearly less intake the vent intake decided to cut out like the front factory kind of crashed the port deal so that was 30 bucks for the material for that and to plate the corners where you have to cut out the shelf in the engine bay I did heat shielding on the fuel lines brake lines finished anything that got anywhere near the exhaust I did like the nice you know 500 700 degree heat shielding wrap which ended up being like 80 bucks for the heat shielding it adds up quick a lot of heat shielding fluids $108 because I literally calculated everything down to like my coolant additive the distilled water trans gear oil diff gear oil engine oil engine filter everything 108 bucks so the grand total for the entire swamp has lead at 13,000 99 dollars it hurts it hurts we did go over budget it's still not bad compared to what everyone says you know 15 to 20 and no one's seen it done for that but we didn't go over budget and there is two main reasons why one we went down the rabbit hole a little bit more than we intended to - we piece together the engine so let me give you just a quick rundown of how you could have got it closer to the 10 grand so the simplest way is just with the intake manifold itself so I like I said I bought the intake and I had to buy the injectors and the rails and and all this stuff whereas you could have just bought a stock ls1 intake with your fuel injector your fuel rails you know everything you need for 280 bucks instead of the way I did it which ended up being about a thousand and thirty nine dollars because you know adding on the night fuel system parts and all that stuff that would have saved you over 700 bucks right there brought you down to the low twelve thousand dollar range the biggest way you could have saved money is doing what I originally intended on doing the best way to do this if you're gonna do a swap is to buy a car and parted out and that's what I wanted to do but when I started this build as most of you know I started in a two-car garage in a neighborhood small driveway you know and as much as I wanted to I really didn't have room to part out an entire car take it apart store the parts sell the parts and do all that I just didn't have the time and I didn't have the room to do it then now I could definitely do it and that would be the way to go because based on the math I did on some cars that were for sale you can buy basically a stock one for about four grand and by the time you sell everything you'll be about twenty five hundred into your whole drivetrain or and you could buy like a modern and I found a couple of those where like if you just sold all the aftermarket parts for like pretty cheap you'd end up with a modified like six liter even for 2,500 bucks what's the entire drivetrain so we're gonna call it 2500 bucks and you get everything and the key is you get everything you are not piecing together bolts for your flywheel you're not piecing together this and that and accessories and accessory brackets like you literally have everything out of the car you have the intake manifold the accessories a wiring harness the coil packs you know the manifold you would really have everything you need so we had did it piece everything together the drivetrain cost me thirty nine hundred and thirty six dollars since I did it that way I went down there I have a whole little bit it was thirteen hundred and seventy four dollars into fuel system stuff which again allows me to run 85 my power level is drastically increased you know my capability but still thirteen hundred and seventy four dollars so the total to do it the way I did it was five thousand three hundred and ten dollars the way you could have done it is you'd have the whole drive through twenty five hundred bucks you know corvette fuel pressure regulator for 50 bucks 38 tows for 30 bucks and then you meet the d torques pump for 148 bucks so you'd have 27 28 into your whole drivetrain and that's literally everything obviously that's not gonna allow you to run e85 but you know it would be as it is right now I'm not running 85 currently you could have a motor in and running and be good so if I had done it that way that would have brought the cost down to ten thousand five hundred seventeen dollars which is coolest our budget I know it's like daydreaming and like if we got I went a GAD to get the car for this much and whatever but I mean that's pretty close and I'm happy with that I mean it is not what we were said we were gonna do and we are over budget but we did go down the rabbit hole and we did make some mistakes this was my first LS swap I learned a lot and definitely in the future if I ever were to do it again assuming the donor cars didn't go up create the amount of money I would absolutely do a donor car like no way I would piece it together again because there's just so much little stuff look if you got just a block now you need water pump bolts you can go put your water pump on oh crap it on how the water pump bolts oh I don't have a thermostat housing I don't know thermostat housing bolts you know it's just all this little stuff that adds up to not only just add up but it takes time you look you think you're ready to go and you start putting it together and realize you're missing you know I've been take manifold bolts you just bought an intake manifold but you don't have the bolts from your owner or from that into you know it's like silly stuff like that so that's why pulling a holder action out of a car I'm keeping everything you need it's really the way to go and it would have saved me a lot of money okay so now we'll talk about the actual like the whole build so we'll run through this pretty quick I bought the car for 3,200 bucks I bought those wheels that are now for 800 bucks front tires our toil proxies are triple Eight's they were 230 bucks the rares were 150 bucks federal 595 RS our seats were 880 which is kind of confusing because I got the halo seat when I was supposed to be getting a start seat so I kind of got that one for the price of a start but just go with it 880 harnesses 400 bucks steering wheel 400 bucks hovered after and quick release hundred eighty bucks this is where the price fit it's hard so the PMU setup that i went with on you guys about thirteen hundred and forty nine bucks the key pad for that was four hundred and thirty bucks the PM unique an adapter was 150 bucks bushings for 230 bucks age was two grand paint was 2500 pages were two hundred for the oil and water but I got a bunch of gauges with the car I had the wideband with the car and boost with the car angle it was 811 rear drop knuckles are 389 rear calipers are 50 bucks for the second pair because I want to do a caliper set up obviously pads are fifty five dollars a set three sets because it will Kyle pair 165 rotors were eighty dollars for all four electric thirty bucks look at 85 bucks circuit breaker for the main batteries connect 20 bucks for gauge wires 30 bucks random yr 30 bucks each string connectors 15 bucks weather pack connectors 30 bucks that was to be able to disconnect all the mini-sub harnesses you know 3 4 5 pin that's basically how I wired the whole car with the PMU for the Aged cable ends 12 bucks spray paint 56 bucks carpet 100 bucks Afghan 300 bucks tie rod 26 bucks inner tie rod 6 bucks super cheap rock auto rear bearings and seals 45 bucks front lower and upper ball joint 78 books ebrake set up to 50 I'm not really sure on that one because I am gonna like build it myself I'm just gonna use like a little wood master and make the bracket and make the handle and then I always have to buy wine so I two fifties should be more than enough for that abs for the gauges 15 bucks exhaust hangers the little rubber and ones I need to replace those that was eight bucks I tried to cover a wood everything I walked around the car I looked at it I ran through them I had a trip to cover glittery every single part on the car the total for all that sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty six dollars that's including the cost of the car but I sold the turbo kit for two grand the mega swear in front of hundred the tourists that were 750 in a trance for seventy five so I sold all the parts that came on the car for thirty three hundred and twenty five dollars so that puts me at thirteen thousand six hundred sixty one into the car bill plus the thirteen thousand ninety nine to the swap twenty six thousand seven hundred sixty dollars which is honestly more than I thought it was gonna be again we were lucky enough to have sponsors to help us out like made the bill go by way faster if I were to have to have bought everything at full price it would have taken me a lot longer to get this bill done so I just want to say huge thanks to you know everyone that worked with us on this project and helped us out because they're the reason we were able to get it done and another thing I guess we can get up now entire sitting another thing to note is that this project took me right out of year and that was with me working a normal job working on it in the evenings on the weekends but it's so they're drifting so a lot of weekends I'd be doing that so pretty much just like in my spare time putting it together at the last couple months I had pretty much full time to dedicate to it but I think if I had all the parts I could knock out the whole bill in two to four months not counting waiting for the occasion paint just me putting it all together it really isn't that bad and it seems like a lot of work but it's really not but it is it's one of those things but I I definitely think I could have knocked it out a lot quicker if I had the amount of time I have now since the beginning and if I you know knowing what I've been doing now having done it once makes it way easier to do it a second time but yeah that is my my LS Miata and that is how much it costs give you guys a quick tour underneath so we've got my super nice stainless exhaust built by grinding hard garage got our monster conversion axles and BC clovers for date eight diff with the monster mounts we have our drive shafts that we got custom made our CD o.9 trans Collins adapter t56 bellhousing mask pan this is the monster Miata subframe my destroyer die angle kit drop knuckles and everything be sequels up here as well radiator mount setup accessory drive all that good stuff that's pretty much all I can think of so if you guys have any other questions on the build or you want to know something or you think I missed something let me know in the comments below you know trying to cover it but might as well take it for a drive now I can't leave you guys with talking about a car for probably what's 30 minutes I would guess so let's go saver one thing that I was thinking about just now as I was getting ready to go drive if this were to be a streetcar if I hadn't crashed it which would it wouldn't be a new body panels and it wouldn't need a paint if I didn't need a cage it because it's a drift car and if I didn't rewire the whole entire car because again it's a drift car and I'm wasn't keeping any of the stock features anyway if you take those three things out that drops the price down sixty five hundred bucks which brings it down to around 20 grand so this car would be replicated as a street car still with all the suspension stuff the angle stuff to drop knuckles everything for 20 grand which really I forgot to close though is not that bad it's really not that pet it seemed bad at 26 grams but you think you know the cage and the paint job and then the super fancy wiring are a huge part of that so that's just something to keep in mind what do you think like the total cost of the score I want to get my engage Buster working I'm gonna get the speedo and the time working impossible be nice to have both oh man motorcycling really it's really the exotics like in the car sniffing it I know or like you hear the frenetic honor sounds like a typical like grunty v8 but if you hear it from the back it's like raspy like high revving sounding it's different

Channel: Taylor Ray

Views: 393,372

Keywords: turbo miata, ls1 miata, rb miata, miata fails, miata crash, miata how to, turbo miata drift, miata drift, miata slammed, sr20 miata, jz miata, 350z drift, 350z fail, turbo 350z, 350z crash, 350z how to, 350z coilovers, 350z angle, corvette drift, corvette slammed, corvette turbo, c5 drift, c5 slamed, jdm corvette, jdm c5, corvette how to, corvette fails, 2jz corvette, 2jz mustang

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Length: 29min 56sec (1796 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 15 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/anownedguy]

well there goes my dreams cause I'm never going to have that throw away type of money.

[u/Fugner]

TL;DW:

Total swap cost with E85 capability: $13,099

Could be done for $10,517 if pulled from a Camaro and no E85.

Total build cost: $30,085. $26,760 after selling parts originally with the car.

I just thought it was an interesting video because it's not often you see the price of a build broken down like this.

[u/WeirdFlexBut0K]

I want a video like this but for a TJ wrangler.

I want a LS (LQ9) in a TJ with nv4500 (comes from factory in later TJs)

Surely it'd be cheaper than a Miata. Hopefully, anyway

[u/aceogorion1]

He put a lot of extras on there, many of which are sadly unavoidable because Miata. That's the thing with swaps like this, there's so much variability which goes into it that no size fits all.

You can go from pulling a junkyard 5.3 on half off day for 200 with harness bits and drop it into an already sbc car with less then a hundred bucks worth of engine mount adapters and 150 worth of speeduino standalone, up to... well what you see in this Miata. There's so much range, and it really depends on the vehicle you're putting it into and more importantly both your skills with a wrench (even better a welder) and your willingness to do so. The less you want to wrench now and in the future the more you've got to spend to insure you're rolling fewer dice.

You can also help that (not cure it) with some careful pre junkyard pull examination, amazon borescopes are real cheap now, and a leakdown test goes a long way. However in some yards you've got to get crafty because they don't like seeing compressed air or batteries brought in.

[u/StudentDriver69]

So we are going to starts a sub 10k, LS, spec Miata race series now... right?