Jerry DeMoss

Thanks for the info.I have heard many people talk about the ej22 swap and I just wanted to know if there is a diagram available of what wires go to what when I end up putting it back together. Also what year cars did the ej22 come out of? What is the stock power I can expect to get out of the ej22?

Hi I was wondering if anyone has first hand experience putting a 1.8 Ea82 motor into the hole where the ea81 1.6 was. I am looking at converting my hatch to 5speed tranny at the same time of the motor swap. My suby is a 1986 2dr hatch. Is the 1.8 carb engine conversion worth trouble,or is the SPFI engine a better way to go. I am going to build my own intake so I can run dual carbs or a very large single.I am looking at larger than the weber 32/36. I will be running the spfi heads on the carb engine because of better port design and slightly higher compression.For that reason I am going to be building a custom intake manifold.Along with head porting of course and a custom 2'' header to a 2.5'' exhaust.Does anyone know of a company that will make high compression pistons for the ea82. I am looking for at least 10:1 to 12.5:1. Is this really worth the trouble? Am I better off sticking with the ea81 motor? Or going a different route entirely with a different motor? The last car I built was a 1988 suby 2dr hatch, I had ported the head and the intake manifold,Msd blaster coil,weber 32/36 carb, 2 1/4" exhaust. It ran really good.Anyone who has contemplated this before please help. I would like to be pointed in the right direction so I don't end up doing the same thing as someone else has had to do.