Ok the other day my friends found a black SE-R for sale in a crap hole dealership and they told me about it so i went to look at it the next day. it had some little things wrong but it was still good an the guy said it had a burned up clutch but i was going to but in a new one anyway so i thought that i could get it cheaper. but heres the SAD part, i went to pop the hood to look at the engine and i about shit myself, there it was a F*$#ing GA16DE. someone put it in there after they blew the sr20.


But i was thinkin i could get it for 500 and put a SR20DET in it. its a 5 speed and i was wondering if the 1.6 and the 2.0 have the same tranny?
thanks

What the heck? Who would go to all the EXTRA expense of swapping a GA16 in for the SR20? That doesn't make any sense at all. Cause then they would have had to get a new tranny ECU, wiring harness, etc. to DOWNGRADE the car.

Are you sure it was an SE-R? Some SE's can look awfully similar. And no, the GA and SR use different trannies.

That doesn't make any sense at all. It was probably an SE, same interior, gauge cluster with a tach, not sure about 4 wheel discs on the SE, doubt it. It wouldn't be hard to screw with the badging to make it look like an SE-R that's for damn sure. Only way to know for sure would be to check the VIN I guess. Noboby in their right mind would go through all that work and expense to down swap like that. At least you would hope not.

No GA's came with 4 wheel disc. that about the only way to tell them apart from the exterior

Did it have a 130 mph speedo? Or a 150 mph?

Rear discs are optional with the ABS package on the 1.6 cars

Well like that Carfax commercial says, "people do some strange things to cars."

yeah, I was thinking about downsizing my SE-R to the 1.6L. that darn 2.0L just has too much power. I can't seem to keep the wheels from spinning?!?!:p

I saw this same car actually when the owner was trying to sell it, so did someone else on the board.... I saw it with my own eyes...

SE-R wheels, SE-R gauge cluster, SE-R seats, 4 wheel disc, and a GA16DE crapply installed (had yellow paint markings on it like it was pulled from a junk yard). I laughed at the guy when he swore up and down it was the right engine for that car, I pulled my NX up to it and popped the hood. He told me since it was a '92 and my nx was a '93 that was the difference, I rolled my eyes... (also, VIN matched that of a SE-R)

Right afterwards I found a clean SE-R, bought and sold it all in about a days time :-P Needed some extra cash for my new house!

Chris

Some riceboy on here did the same thing. He had a 1.6 car with a godawful bodykit, and took an SR20 out of a running SE-R and swapped motors with both cars. Some people just don't deserve to drive SR20 cars :(

I drove that car about a month ago. I met the guy just over the line in Covington, Ky while I was on business in Cincy. The car was in decent shape. I was getting pumped. Then I popped the hood and about puked. The 1.6 was in this car that had all the SE-R items--rear discs, fogs, wheels...everything. How strange.

Curt B. Shumaker
"SHUMAX"

yeah i even looked at the inner door where the vin # and stuff is and it said SR20DE but the hell if it was. and it did have that yellow stuff on the engine to.

and right before i poped the hood my friend said, " that would be funny if someone did a engine swap from a 2.0 to a 1.6" that bastard.

The car is at Metro Used Cars in cincinnati if anyone wants to look at it.

yeah, when i was looking to buy my se-r someone emailed me talking about selling me their "former" se-r. might be the same car.

I don't think he swap the GA16 in there, maybe the last owner just brough some Se-r wheels on it so it looks like the Real Se-r.

Originally posted by Mike sr20de
yeah, I was thinking about downsizing my SE-R to the 1.6L. that darn 2.0L just has too much power. I can't seem to keep the wheels from spinning?!?!:p

well i am almost doing just that. my car is badged SE on the rear and my underhood catalyst sticker is for the GA16DE. but i wont go as far as really swapping the engines. then there is no point.

I see this kind of shit every day on ebay :D