superhoeper wrote:Bringing this thread back from the dead. I'm planing on doing a 3sgte swap in my te38. I know what bell housing and transmission I'm gonna use, but I'm having troubles figuring out what version of the engine I want to use. Are any of them easier to use for rwd? From what I've read you can use the 2s oil pan and pickup on a gen 1-3 3sgte. Dose anyone know if the 2s pan and pickup will fit on the gen 4 3sgte? Every generation has its ups an downs. The 4th gen is very bitter sweet. The COP is awesome. The turbo exhaust housing being cast into the manifold sucks since you can't just flip the turbo around. Version 3 is the most powerful with a distributor but the block is weak. And versions 1 and 2 are super easy to find parts for (and cheap to) here in the states but they're outdated and don't make as much power with the bigport heads. So what do you guys suggest?
The majority swap engine version parts together to build an bullet proof block