Originally Posted by
spawn13b
I found a place that will sell just the motor, uncut harness, and ecu for 1600.
This is the same place XAT uses to get all their motors. They guarantee quality. I didn't want to, but I may just go with an R154. The 6spd is just so damn expensive, and the R154 fits right in the tranny tunnel with no modifications nor would I need a custom drive shaft.
That is a JDM motor for sure. This means smaller injectors, different turbos, different cams, etc. Make sure your comparing apples to apples. It's cool if you are planning to go with a 290hp motor that you will be leaving mostly stock. You'll have to change the harness, turbos, injectors, cams, and a bunch of stuff on the intake manifold to bring it up to US spec, non of which are cheap and you'll still only have a 350hp motor. For what you would spend to do all that you could get a quality NA-t kit from Boostlogic and be making 500hp.
I'm not trying to shoot down your plans just giving you some other options that maybe you didn't thing about.