Buying 1J Swapped 300, Opinions?
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Lol do you even automotive bro? The Soarer CAME with the 1J, how is that at all out of place? The 1J serves the SC perfectly. The 2J is in NO way "SO" much better, they are practically identical.
And don't get me started on Legends, I love those cars! The Legend coupes were timeless, amazing cars minus head gasket issues. I had a pretty beat up 91 coupe on OZ Superleggera's, SR5Guy ECU, Type 2 heads with a 3.5 block, 1 of maybe 10 ever made Web cam sets, KSports, 6 speed swap the list goes on.. To this day a production number has never been given to the public of how many 6 speeds were produced. There were over 330,000 Legends made between 91-95, I reeeeally doubt only 3k were 6 speed but who knows?. But anyway, fun cars, too bad they are FWD and had zero aftermarket support.
Since Legend fans are rare, here is my old one before I got the SC, I miss that car.
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And don't get me started on Legends, I love those cars! The Legend coupes were timeless, amazing cars minus head gasket issues. I had a pretty beat up 91 coupe on OZ Superleggera's, SR5Guy ECU, Type 2 heads with a 3.5 block, 1 of maybe 10 ever made Web cam sets, KSports, 6 speed swap the list goes on.. To this day a production number has never been given to the public of how many 6 speeds were produced. There were over 330,000 Legends made between 91-95, I reeeeally doubt only 3k were 6 speed but who knows?. But anyway, fun cars, too bad they are FWD and had zero aftermarket support.
Since Legend fans are rare, here is my old one before I got the SC, I miss that car.
Thread jack over, as you were...
Nice Legend, yeah, mine was a 1995 Legend LS 6MT black/tan, 3.5 block, Type II cams, valve springs and intake manifold, 5MT flywheel/clutch (hated the stock dual mass flywheel that came with the 6MT's), RDX injector swap, etc.., it was a fun car but FWD was just a stupid, stupid decision on Honda's part IMO.
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This car was too clean to pass up and that 1J would have left more questions asked than answered. Thanks for all your help everyone!
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I personally would never pay over 3 or close to 4K for a stock sc lol but that's me.. and that 1jz would've left more questions unanswered only if you allowed it.. if you don't ask you won't know right. So whatever questions the owner couldnt answered and if you had any doubt take it to a shop.. and do what you gotta do.. but good look with your new sc anyways. .
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I personally would never pay over 3 or close to 4K for a stock sc lol but that's me.. and that 1jz would've left more questions unanswered only if you allowed it.. if you don't ask you won't know right. So whatever questions the owner couldnt answered and if you had any doubt take it to a shop.. and do what you gotta do.. but good look with your new sc anyways. .
You can get lucky, but that is a fact. It is also dependent on the regional market.
If a person treated a car with love and obsessed over it for life, it very well may not go for 3K.
Outside of that, I agree with you.
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As far as the 1JZ goes, of course I know the Soarer came with that motor standard, that's not what I am arguing, I am just not a fan of motors below 3 liters, I know it's not a popular position to hold, I get it...like I said, the 1JZ and 2JZ engines are all fine engines, I would simply never take a 1JZ over a 2JZ because of parts availability alone, not to mention the motor will likely have a more rev-happy, top end performance characteristic due to the shorter stroke and lower displacement. Either way, I am not here to argue that, 1JZ swaps have just always puzzled me as the motors are about the same price as the 2JZ-GTE Aristo engines, the benefit to the 2JZ is you can get parts for them in the states and they typically make more power with equal mods due to the larger displacement. No big deal, I get it, you like the 1JZ, with good reason too, it's a good motor.
Nice Legend, yeah, mine was a 1995 Legend LS 6MT black/tan, 3.5 block, Type II cams, valve springs and intake manifold, 5MT flywheel/clutch (hated the stock dual mass flywheel that came with the 6MT's), RDX injector swap, etc.., it was a fun car but FWD was just a stupid, stupid decision on Honda's part IMO.
Nice Legend, yeah, mine was a 1995 Legend LS 6MT black/tan, 3.5 block, Type II cams, valve springs and intake manifold, 5MT flywheel/clutch (hated the stock dual mass flywheel that came with the 6MT's), RDX injector swap, etc.., it was a fun car but FWD was just a stupid, stupid decision on Honda's part IMO.
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I personally would never pay over 3 or close to 4K for a stock sc lol but that's me.. and that 1jz would've left more questions unanswered only if you allowed it.. if you don't ask you won't know right. So whatever questions the owner couldnt answered and if you had any doubt take it to a shop.. and do what you gotta do.. but good look with your new sc anyways. .
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If you top out at 3K, you have missed some of the best SC's ever sold and picked from among the worst. Period.
You can get lucky, but that is a fact. It is also dependent on the regional market.
If a person treated a car with love and obsessed over it for life, it very well may not go for 3K.
Outside of that, I agree with you.
You can get lucky, but that is a fact. It is also dependent on the regional market.
If a person treated a car with love and obsessed over it for life, it very well may not go for 3K.
Outside of that, I agree with you.
I just can't do stock cars anymore. Even my lifted cummins move lol 1100lbs of torque with a full exhaust H&S tune intake and a few other small mods . My 2jzgte is my daily.
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