Casey Daniel Powers

my wife has a 97 acura tl 2.5 the trannys goin out and the motors tired... i was told you can swap over to a j series 3.2 v-6... i wanna have a lil fun with the swap, i wanna go with the 3.2 and a 6 speed stick, where can i find out motor, wiring, motor mounts ect? i'd appeciate the help

Ken1997TL

Hi and welcome.

You can't do a J series engine swap. It wouldn't fit and even if it did, the transmission wouldn't work on it.

Your G series engine as you can see when you pop the hood, is mounted front to rear instead of side to side.

main70072

You may want to consider a manual transmission swap from an Acura Vigor and post a progress thread on here.

Casey Daniel Powers

what would be a good motor tranny set up to replace the stock one then? i want it to have a lot more power then stock

Ken1997TL

Turbo your existing engine and the manual transmission swap from a Vigor. Oh and figure out the OBD-2 to OBD-1 conversion.

Casey Daniel Powers

k, thanks

jrot

this manual swap sounds awesome, is that a hard one to pull off???

Casey Daniel Powers

where can i find a good motor for this car? and how hard is to swap?