JDM engines direct swap?

This is a very tricky situation The generation 3 engine that you will buy from the JDM suppliers as a direct bolt-in but storage and transportation of these engine is very lacking It is very difficult to get one in really good shape to be honest about it You have to be able to go to a place where you can see a few of them not just have anything trucked to your door because when you take off the intake manifold and take a look at a few places you'll find water and all kinds of shit in these things excuse my friend should automatically be changed by automatic moderating anyway. So beware of this when these engines are pulled in Asia they're thrown in piles many times things are broken on the engines and they're set off to the side and just left the rot and the rest of them that haven't broken or haven't smacked the floor too hard or whatever goes on get shipped to wherever they're going and probably not very good conditions this stuff is shipped as junk scrap so it is in a part of the ship where if it gets wet it's not a huge deal on and on and on so if you have an engine that has an exploded hasn't rattled enough to crack the center girdle or any of those funny business things you have good piston extension and deck height out of the block I would fix what I have knowing what I know now. If any of these things dictate that's this stuff is bad it may be actually less money for you to buy a manufactured or remanufactured center section that's your reciprocating mass and apply that to your block lower girdle and add your remanufactured head might be a better way to spend your money

 

The engines fit the same but you have to use your wiring harness and ecus because a real JDM engine was used in a right hand drive car instead of our left hand cars and the ecus are different.

I would agree that you should hand pick an engine and verify the label says
X2ZR-W20 instead of X2ZR-W25. JDM injectors are tan. Otherwise you are getting a US junkyard engine.