K20A conversion for DC5S

[FDCivic]

Hey,

I've recently had some beef with my insurance company. They screwed up with a hydrolock repair and have now agreed to settle with a payout. Whats going to happen now is, I have the option of buying my car back at its salvage price of around 8k. All I have to do is whack in a K20A and then I'm off.

The cars fine, I only ran into a puddle so all the wiring should be in good nick. Was just wondering if the JDM k20A would be a direct fit and also, would I need a new ECU or would my current ECU work with it? Also, would it be worth the effort and time to do that or should I just buy a different car? I loved my car to bits and am not ready to part it just yet and it would save me heaps of money too haha

thanks

[THEEYA]

By the looks of your post, looks like you still love your car, and yea you should be able to get it back and running even faster with money to spare i hope? :P

[FDCivic]

I'd have a lot to spare but Looking at the prices of evo 8's on carsales have got me contemplating haha

[bennjamin]

there is a EP3 K20a on this site - username b16a2 I think - about $3k just chuck that in and sell the car for profit IMO.

[fatboyz39]

You'll need to reuse your TYPE S engine loom. Other then that everything should plug in and run on the stock ECU fine.

[dlai5552]

I remember that Kpro for my type R wouldn't fit the type s, so I would have thought you would of needed a different ecu :S

[fatboyz39]

That's due to your wiring loom.