1986 Nissan 200SX XE.. for $100 bucks !?

NismoPower · May 31st, 2004, 06:53 PM

hey everone.. my friend has an 86 nissan 200sx se.. with the 2.0L engine.. it runs,, and drives fine.. he wants 100 bucks for it... what do u think...

i am not familiar with that engine at all.. can anyone tell me anything about the car.. and what possible motor swaps there are for it.. thanks

Myetball · May 31st, 2004, 08:50 PM

It's a CA20E, SOHC eight-valve engine with about 96hp. Same basic lower end as the CA16DE, CA18ET, CA18DE, CA18DET. Has a larger bore and longer stroke than the 1.6 and 1.8 liter cousins but all those motors will swap in nicely. If your tranny bolts up to say a CA18DET then you have no problems. However, if you use and S13 tranny it will end up being a bit short, both in shifter placement and driveshaft length.

NismoPower · May 31st, 2004, 09:01 PM

does the stock tranny bolt up to the ca18det?? its a 5spd.. im not sure which tranny though..

Myetball · May 31st, 2004, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by NismoPower

does the stock tranny bolt up to the ca18det?? its a 5spd.. im not sure which tranny though..

I'm not sure if the S12 tranny bolts right up. There's some guys on NICO forums that were gonna try it but haven't seen the results yet.

Hawkon · Jul 2nd, 2004, 08:34 PM

the flywheel's the missing link after what I've heard.

the CA20E (and other non-twincam CA's) got 8 bolts on the flywheel, the CA18DET has 12.

the clean blocks are identical, so it's a bolt on on the tranny that way.

minute rice sentra · Jul 4th, 2004, 02:44 PM

Twelve bolts? where exactly? My DET and DE have 8 bolts holding the flywheel to the crank. Here's a little 200sx specific info- http://www.club-s12.org/board/index.php?