Thread: Shortage of SR20VE engines?

Il sell you my VE head if the price is right its rebuilt already.... never used

and shimmed to spec....

Ronald at Soko in Cali. 1-818-756-5333. $795+ shipping. If he doesn't have any more clean VEs then there is a definite shortage. Cleanest motor I've bought from any engine importer. Hope this helps.

I've had the same problem since last november...called engine depot every 2 weeks since first week in november and they keep saying they getting a container in 2 weeks...waited till 3rd week in december and nothing! only option i had was engine zone which has bad rep for bad engines. I still got a engine cuz i really needed to get my car running...did the swap and 1 1/2 week later spun a bearing on my way to work.Also motor had 3 bent valves when i did a leak down test..my chance to clean up the head/headwork..mistake was me not doin anything to the bottom.

i wish you could of seen me VE b4 i sent the head to be rebuilt 6 bent ex valves !!

i'm a hoarder

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It's winter time in Japan. Not too many parts move out of there this time of the year. Next month you will see things pick up alittle and more engines become available.

X1Billion

Ronald has the cleanest motors of anyone. I have given them all my buisness as well as referenced several people to them. They have VE's in stock. I get them for 750 plus shipping. Usually 900 shipped to a shop in yuma. Ive seriously bought about 25+ motors from them. 4 ve's, about 20 de's, and several honda SOHC and DOHC motors. Every single one of them clean as could be. Some had practically no miles on them guranteed as the inside was new and oil was fresh, pan had clean oil with no shavings or flakes at all, every bolt, fuel rail, and brackets still had that anodized brand new look. It looked like it was barely even ever started. All the ve's were clean as hell. Ronald will hook you up if your close buy and even if not it might be better off getting one through them if you cant find any for a decent price close by. Give Ronald a call at Soko and tell him Ashton sent you. He will hook you up.



As for you, Did you take the time to pull the pan and remove the dent from the lower pan as im sure like every jdm motor ive ever gotten, it was probably smashed in the center probably resting against the pickup tube. On the ve's they have a better designed pickup tube than the De's do that wont allow complete starvation when the pan is up against the pickup tube but still it would hinder oil flow. As for bent valves. Explain how that happens unless valves were contacted previously or by you. Most VE's were from automatics which are really really unlikely to be overrevved to cause such a thing. I have a hard time believing the bent valve thing unless it was caused by something you such as an overrev. Just sayin.

A friend of mine imports engines from Japan and he says that the VEs are becoming harder to find and had to buy the entire car at auctions just to get some good motors. I'm sure the recent event in Japan doesn't help much.