I just put together a site on the cardomains to show the progress and problems regarding the swap of a GTX motor to a Protege.
http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...page_id=263925

It's getting close, I hope to fire it up by the end of the month!

Rick

 

Holy cow man, looking at the wiring photo gives me shivers down my back. Nice touch with the lawn chair.

I am in the process of doing one also but a little simpler approach. For now I will be using the stock GT ECU.

First thing I did after getting it in the car was a test start without the turbo. Believe it or not it actually started. So far so good.

Next is the 89 Probe intercooler and RRFR.

 

One question though. There is a short coolent pipe above the turbo that I see is not connected to anything. Do you know what it is supposed to connect to?

 

Im not too sure which one you mean. Here's the pic for the cooling systems:



Hope that helps

Rick

 

Wow... awesome. This gives me some idea of what will need to be done if I want to do the same thing.

 

Make sure you pick up that Kokanee can from the side of your intercooler before you put the bumper back on hehe

You don't wanna waste beer


Very nice by the way.

 

It's there for "scale" purposes only!

Rick

 

Woa! is this a mistake!

 

Isnt that post whoreing? lol ... From the info ive heard the Vj22 is the same as the Vj20 its just from a european familia .But its looking good keep us updated! . I didnt know the Canadian GT's have the same seats as the gtx and gtr's ..Nice job ..Jon 93 lx/GTR

 

I have not been able to find one thing on the VJ-22, did a google search on VJ-21 and I found lots of GTXs from Sweden, Norway and Germany listing this turbo. I contacted one turbo rebuilder that gave me the spec code:

vj22= 5200IIUP20NRBUL4016EZ BP26 9N2D

The VJ-20 has different spec's. He said there was no info on the region it was used though. But did say the code shows A/R ratio of 20 (VJ-20=15 ) and said the compressor was larger. I would like to know where you might have heard of its use, I've been looking for months so I would know what to expect from the "snail" I guess I will be finding out by the end of the month!

Anyways, when does your GT-R project begin? Post lots of Pic's not too much info on the GT-R around here! Waiting anxiously to hear about it!

Rick

 

Braden told me it was. but who knows.. Im gonna start in April and try to bang the install out in 3 or 4 days with some friends help. then have braden come tune it with me. im just missing a intercooler(1000) and a haltech(1400) and its going in ...Jon 93 lx

 

nice job


when done it will be worthy of this

 

Hopefully we are aiming at 300 whp . im sure we will get there ..Jon 93 lx

 

Im sure with the GTR motor you should be able to get there. But the 3-4 days to do the swap. Thats a tight timeline. I guess if you have everything else done exhaust etc. it shouldn't be too tight with people that know what they're doing.

My wiring is finally finished. I can't wait to turn her over for the first time! Now its off to get the intercooler pipes done.

Rick

 

Hey Rkives do you have the same image has the coolant line but for the vaccum line. The coolant line image help me a lot has my gtx came with all hose disconnected.