lol, i told her the answer already, but her and i wanna make sure im right

she is wondering if there is any other brand engine we can put into my 92eclipse (as in not a DSM) and do it without owning a cutting torch or welder lol... i told her many times no, but she is stubborn haha... but does anyone know anything i dont where i could be wrong?

 

well, i'm not quite sure but you can make anything fit with the right custom motor mounts,haha prolly not much been done with those shells. but there's prolly sumthin' out there that'll fit we just dunno yet, and no1's too stupid to try,haha

 

no theres not, and why do you wanna put something else in?

 

because i dont want a DSM because of the reliablilty factor, i know there are a couple good ones out there, but i babied this car so much and treated it better than i treat myself lol... and i still had nothing but problems out of it.. i just dont want a DSM motor

 

dude dsm's can be very reliable cars. you just gotta make sure you treat them good and keep up with maintanance. the reason people get the bad impression from them is because they take them out and start beating the **** out of them and dont keep up with oil changes etc. as long as you treat your car nice (like you want it to last you) and keep up with the maintanance, it will last you a long time. its been around for 15 years now, what says it cant go another?

 

hey man.. i treated that car better than most would, i didnt let oil stay in the engine for over 3k miles once, hell we only put about 10k on it and we changed the oil like 5 times.. and i only got onto it once when i got it runnin right, found out how slow it is and decided i didnt wanna get onto it cuz it wasnt worth it lol.. i treated it good... and still nothing but problems.. i know they CAN be good, but it wasnt for me

 

I had a 92 non turbo (4g63) dsm and it was a very reliable car, I went threw a couple of clutches and tranies but that was my fault lol. It made it to 198k before the timing belt jumped.

Nick, swap in the 4g63 engine its more reliable then the 1.8.

 

You may have been good to it, but what about the person before you. You may have just been a victum of buying someone elses headache.

 

What problem could you have had...i bet non of them had to do with the actual engine itself but all the other parts. What do you want for a car that is over 15 years old?

 

I was thinking the same thing. The only thing you can blame the motor on is crankwalk that is about it