Personally, for those of whom do not have the money for a motor swap G64/G63 more or less at minimum of $2k for Forced Induc.. A DOHC swap would save you a good chunk of change, much more time, and gain atleast 30-40 ponies at the rubber.

Not everyones personal alternative, but i personally am limited on funds so with my tax return just arriving, id rather not yank this block at 133k miles on it and just leave it the way MITSU should have being at that DOHC. Shoulda been a requirement IMO

But i will agree this is YOUR idea and project. If money has no say follow through with your idea. Good luck on the build, I too would love to see this creation of masterpiece ressurect!

 

Ever make that swap?

 

ever make the swap?

 

The dohc? or the engine itself?

 

I was told this was a very hard. time consuming and exspensive swap. It might be easier do do an evo 3 swap or just turbo the exsisting platform.

 

Based on your post of doing an evo 3 you should not be doing any type of swap...

 

What does this mean? It makes no sense to me I'm throwing out a suggestion I don't need a swap nor have I done one I drive a Evo 9 MR DD.

 

It means you clearly have no idea what your talking about so probably a better idea in this situation to just not say anything rather then trying to increase your post count.

The evo 3 engine is backward configuration to the lancer so doing a evo 3 swap would be even more difficult.

Congrats on your evo 9, probably a good idea to stay in the evo section.

 

You're totally right about the evo 3 my mistake I thought I recalled someone on another forum saying something about doing the evo 3 motor in a lancer. Nice lancer, it was a new topic no need to be such a jerk.

 

See the thing is its not a time consuming swap. As I've said before, its pretty straight forward. The engine and transmission drop right in without any type modifiation. Of course the passenger side motor mount will have to be reinforced but thats about it. Also Im not planning on doing AWD, just FWD. It would be nice to do a RWD but I dont have the tools nor the experience to do the fabrication. Yes I know there will be traction problems but I'll figure it out. The Hardest part about the swap is the electrical portion, which still in itself is pretty damn easy too. I really dont understand why people make this out to be such a difficult, time consuming, and sometimes people say impossible swap. How about you naysayers try doing some research before you dog the idea. Unfortunately people are right on one thing, it is an expensive swap, the engines and transmissions start around 2.5K to buy.

On another topic. Its easy to put a DOHC cylinder head onto to the USDM Lancer. The 8th gen (1996-2003) JDM Mitsu Galant used a 4G94 with a DOHC cylinder head. All you need to do is buy that head(with subsequent internals), a larger timing belt, 3mm headgasket(instead of the 5mm that comes with the SOHC head), and the JDM 4g94 idler pullies. And no, you dont need a different intake manifold, the stock one works just fine. There's really no difference here, you dont have to modify anything, both SOHC and DOHC use the exact same bottom end and have the same bore and stroke and deck height. A difference between the 2 is the DOHC runs at a 11:1 compression ratio as opposed to the 9.5:1 on the SOHC. The DOHC head can net you around 25-30 wheel horsepower. The problem is actually finding the parts, there's a guy in Australia who has a stockpile of them but you will pay the price. Just look up LLT Racing, he's got the stuff.
Or you could just take a DOHC head from a 4g93.

 

No one said that the evo swap was difficult, but as you stated yourself the issue would primarily be traction. The axles can handle like 300 WHP if I'm not mistake, at least reliably. Not to mention the tires that our car can fit aren't the most "race" worthy. If you just daily drive your lancer, there is really no point...and even if you auto x, still no point because the different engine puts you in a whole new class where you would get your *** handed to you.