How To Find If My Engine Has Been Changed

[nathn_r33]

I had a car ran in nissans fast and it came back that the car was a RB25DE not a DET. Now i know thet car has a intercooler and the turbo dash and turbo how could i find out if the car has had an engine swap? or find out more about the car?

[boj01]

Look at the blue Japanese manufacturers plate on the firewall and see if it has RB25DE on the engine code.

[nathn_r33]

Look at the blue Japanese manufacturers plate on the firewall and see if it has RB25DE on the engine code.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats just it the blue plate has that it is a DE but everything i can find on the car points to it being a DET. Do you know of anything that a DET has that a DE would not have?

[Driver]

what do the front brakes look like? - they might not of upgraded them.

If the plate on the firewall sais DE. then its had a conversion

[nathn_r33]

Brakes look big but cant say that i have ever seen the brakes on a N.A skyline so couldnt tell if thay are upgreded or not. They look the same as every ones pics in the (how to Anodize your brake calipers).

[Driver]

yeah they are turbo brakes..

[nathn_r33]

yeah they are turbo brakes..

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for that.

Anything other than brakes that would stand out as being a N.A part?

[Mulkers]

Are the wheel hubs/brake assembelies changed from a 4 bolt to a five bolt setup?

[nathn_r33]

Yeah it has 5 bolt setup. Is the 5 bolt the turbo one?

[Driver]

5bolt is turbo..

where the intercooler pipes go thru the chassi where the airbox/pod filters are.. do those 3" holes or watever look like they where cut from factory or done by someone.

My old na r33 didnt have those holes

[nathn_r33]

As far as i can see the holes are factory made. thanks for everyones help on this. could it be that the Japanese manufacturers plate on the firewall is incorrect?

[Ronin 09]

It's possibly a rebody... plates from a written-off GTS on a GTSt

and nope the jap plates will not be incorrect

[LO_R33]

Even if its had a conversion, it seems they've done everything right... as long as it has an engineers certificate if needed, and the engine number is correct on the rta you should be fine.

Dayne

[Links]

Could just have different plates on it - vs. it being a conversion..

[nathn_r33]

Is the GT badge blue or red on a gtst?

[IMACUL8]

red

[Tommyk]

They were both red and blue depending on whether the car was a series1 r32 or series 2

[nathn_r33]

Ok so was the s1 red or the s2?

[JH32]

I thought red was for GTST and blue for non turbo or GTS4 ?

[flagger]

ummm my r32 gtst has a silver gt badge, cause the s1 r32's had no choice in color. s2 on gave the choice of color of the gt badge to the buyer i thought. so they could pick silver, red or blue (obviously silver wasnt popular in s2 cause they were in s1)