I personally know of 3 cars that have had this swap done, one by RRE, and two by random individuals. Firstly the only piece of sheet metal that needs to be modified is the floor pan in the trunk which is not all that bad you can just cut out the well for the spare tire and put in a new flat piece in its place. You can get a rear end from an AWD and cut the mounts off of the AWD car and put them on your swap or make your own mounts which would give you the option of using a straight axle out of a ford or something if you so desired. You can make a crossmember that welds into the rear frame rails and floor pan since the rear subframe mounts are already there. Now, you can cut the AWD fuel tank mounts out and install them on your Swap or fabricate your own. The rear driveshaft mount can be cut out of an AWD but it is not difficult to fabricate one of your own. After you cut the front driveshaft mounts out of an AWD, including the very front crossmember mounts, all that's left is putting in the AWD front cross member, spindles, and steering half shaft. In other words, most everything can be sourced directly from an AWD donor, including the x-member mounts, rear driveshaft mounts, and trunk floor, or you can fabricate your own. THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY 3+ PEOPLE, IT IS POSSIBLE!
To turbo an NA 4G63, the least you need is the exhaust, manifold, turbo, intercooler and piping, BOV, and an SAFC, but you can and probably should go as far as adding a turbo ecu (with extra wires), knock sensor, turbo MAF, injectors, fuel pump, turbo oil pan, turbo intake cam, FPR, and turbo pistons. This all depends on your future intentions for the car, if you do a very basic install with NA pistons, NA ECU, and an SAFC, you can handle roughly 8psi without breaking things and should set the BOV accordingly. If you plan on modifying the car to be similar to a more heavily modified DSM you'll definitely need the stronger turbo pistons, knock sensor, and other components listed above including fuel and you'll have to remember that the NA blocks do not have oil squirters so you should really only go to around 14psi max. If you install a turbo ecu you will have to manually wire both the knock sensor (the block is already tapped for the sensor) and the MAF up using the diagram to adhere the wires to the correct pin locations on the connector. You can drill into your NA oil pan and fabricate a connection for the oil return or simply source a turbo oil pan for this. For anyone just wanting low boost on their DSM, it is actually very easy to do a GS-T conversion all things considered. After you have gone from GS to GS-T, all that's left is to go from GS-T to GSX and then you've got yourself a real gem!
Not as "bolt on" as the 2G swap (which is still not technically entirely bolt on at all), but not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Measure meticulously and you don't have alignment issues.
been looking everywhere for this but seems the headlights are bigger on the TSI or non pop up headlights. might need a bumper and hood conversion with headlights
@@deathcode8637 the channel Slipping Time here on TH-cam did the conversion you need the entire front clip (fenders, hood, bumper, etc.) and the line going down the side of the body is different between 1Ga and 1Gb so he had to get rid of the line on the fenders to make it match better but it came out perfect
Did you ever do the swap? I'm looking at doing the same thing to a 1G and the fabrication doesn't bother me, I used to own a frame and collision repair shop before I took an early retirement due to health issues.
Photos of the swap:
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I personally know of 3 cars that have had this swap done, one by RRE, and two by random individuals. Firstly the only piece of sheet metal that needs to be modified is the floor pan in the trunk which is not all that bad you can just cut out the well for the spare tire and put in a new flat piece in its place. You can get a rear end from an AWD and cut the mounts off of the AWD car and put them on your swap or make your own mounts which would give you the option of using a straight axle out of a ford or something if you so desired. You can make a crossmember that welds into the rear frame rails and floor pan since the rear subframe mounts are already there. Now, you can cut the AWD fuel tank mounts out and install them on your Swap or fabricate your own. The rear driveshaft mount can be cut out of an AWD but it is not difficult to fabricate one of your own. After you cut the front driveshaft mounts out of an AWD, including the very front crossmember mounts, all that's left is putting in the AWD front cross member, spindles, and steering half shaft. In other words, most everything can be sourced directly from an AWD donor, including the x-member mounts, rear driveshaft mounts, and trunk floor, or you can fabricate your own. THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY 3+ PEOPLE, IT IS POSSIBLE!
Good write up in the description! 👍
To turbo an NA 4G63, the least you need is the exhaust, manifold, turbo, intercooler and piping, BOV, and an SAFC, but you can and probably should go as far as adding a turbo ecu (with extra wires), knock sensor, turbo MAF, injectors, fuel pump, turbo oil pan, turbo intake cam, FPR, and turbo pistons. This all depends on your future intentions for the car, if you do a very basic install with NA pistons, NA ECU, and an SAFC, you can handle roughly 8psi without breaking things and should set the BOV accordingly. If you plan on modifying the car to be similar to a more heavily modified DSM you'll definitely need the stronger turbo pistons, knock sensor, and other components listed above including fuel and you'll have to remember that the NA blocks do not have oil squirters so you should really only go to around 14psi max. If you install a turbo ecu you will have to manually wire both the knock sensor (the block is already tapped for the sensor) and the MAF up using the diagram to adhere the wires to the correct pin locations on the connector. You can drill into your NA oil pan and fabricate a connection for the oil return or simply source a turbo oil pan for this. For anyone just wanting low boost on their DSM, it is actually very easy to do a GS-T conversion all things considered. After you have gone from GS to GS-T, all that's left is to go from GS-T to GSX and then you've got yourself a real gem!
Not as "bolt on" as the 2G swap (which is still not technically entirely bolt on at all), but not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Measure meticulously and you don't have alignment issues.
As mentioned, this is going to be extremely difficult; it has been done by a few shops that soon after declared they would never be doing it again
I wouldn't mind seeing it converted to pop up headlights as well!
been looking everywhere for this but seems the headlights are bigger on the TSI or non pop up headlights. might need a bumper and hood conversion with headlights
@@deathcode8637 the channel Slipping Time here on TH-cam did the conversion you need the entire front clip (fenders, hood, bumper, etc.) and the line going down the side of the body is different between 1Ga and 1Gb so he had to get rid of the line on the fenders to make it match better but it came out perfect
Would like to see more on this us csm guys awd swap all the time but if you find a junkyard gsx or eagle tsi to get the floorpan and such do it.
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@@BOVAction great work, looks like a solid setup you took the time to do it right.
@@mitsubishikid1187 thank you, I really appreciate it! If you have any questions in the future feel free to ask!
yeaah buddy!😎🤘🤘
Did you ever do the swap? I'm looking at doing the same thing to a 1G and the fabrication doesn't bother me, I used to own a frame and collision repair shop before I took an early retirement due to health issues.
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Any updates bro?
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