i have a mate with a stock standard bottom end ca18de in his onevia, making 200rwkw for the last 3 years lol.. seeing as though my engine will be pushing north of 500hp once sorted id like to run the det block for the piston cooling.. ive seen way too many trucks fry the guts out of the piston from a blocked squirter, diesel i know, but i dont wanna risk a $10k engine lol..

Andy.. ill have to go have a look over the engines, they are in parts im pretty sure, just bits and pieces i have collected over the years.. but ill get back to ya

Thats right nick all the early ca have no girdle but supposedly also all fwd ca18de.
Im not using the girdle from my 180sx so using the bolts from the ca16de fwd engine.

Are any of the de engines you have in running order ? Got a complete det here will sell or trade it minus bolt ons like alternator, turbo and manifold. For the right price or trade i will travel some of the way. PM me if ya keen and we may agree on a meeting place and price.

wardy ive heardthat on some high performance engines, RBs and Subi engines, they actually remove the piston cooler jets to get more oil going to the bearings and such

my CA is built into a DE block so there are no piston coolers in it. i dont see it as that much of an issue given the amount of engines out there that dont have them fitted and are making large amounts of power...im more concerned that my spool rods dont have the bore squirter hole in them like the factory rods did


D, its not the DEs that dont have girdles. its just the early CAs from what ive seen. as both my DEs have had girdles on them, both were silvia engines

Too bad Riverina Performance Center is not open yet.

Nah D no pick a part as far as 450km away from here. I have like 3 ca18de engines lying around here.. They don't have piston coolers like the det engines. So unfortunately I can't use those from a reliability point of view. I've also considered different engines but the car will be engineered with a ca18 engine number, and I wanna keep it that way to keep the fuzz off my back lol

you have a pick a part in Junee?
Here in melbourne plenty of exa with ca18de
I have the ladderbrace or main bearing girdle spare which
is used on det models that I dont need and long bolts to
suit it just want postage for them.
If you desperately need an engine and cant get one through
ebay or other websites (eg. try aus12.org) I could pull one
out of the exas and just add the girdle and longer bolts.
Youll need to arrange freight using e-go which is about
80-100 bucks up to 130kg on a skid.
Have you thought of doing up an L or K series with the best head
of them all the ka24de? biggest valves, best architecture etc.

lol yeh just a bit of a drive! around 1400km.. but ill keep it in mind if i cant get one mate, may be able to sort something out. cheers for the offer though

Got one here but its a little bit of a drive for u
Pm me if u still need one
Trent

spot on oda70.. i considered the ca20 swap, but with the amount of boost and power i plan on, i think i should spend the cash on a billet crank