diff --git a/system-contracts/contracts/Constants.sol b/system-contracts/contracts/Constants.sol
index 0f8e2307f..1f911975f 100644
--- a/system-contracts/contracts/Constants.sol
+++ b/system-contracts/contracts/Constants.sol
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {IPubdataChunkPublisher} from "./interfaces/IPubdataChunkPublisher.sol";
 
 /// @dev All the system contracts introduced by zkSync have their addresses
 /// started from 2^15 in order to avoid collision with Ethereum precompiles.
-uint160 constant SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET = {{SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET}}; // 2^15
+uint160 constant SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET = 0x8000; // 2^15
 
 /// @dev Unlike the value above, it is not overridden for the purpose of testing and
 /// is identical to the constant value actually used as the system contracts offset on
diff --git a/system-contracts/scripts/preprocess-system-contracts.ts b/system-contracts/scripts/preprocess-system-contracts.ts
index acecee1ac..9be3518c4 100644
--- a/system-contracts/scripts/preprocess-system-contracts.ts
+++ b/system-contracts/scripts/preprocess-system-contracts.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import * as fs from "fs";
 import { existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from "fs";
 import path from "path";
 import { renderFile } from "template-file";
@@ -16,15 +17,18 @@ async function preprocess(testMode: boolean) {
     console.log("\x1b[31mWarning: test mode for the preprocessing being used!\x1b[0m");
     params.SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET = "0x9000";
   }
+  const substring = "uint160 constant SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET = 0x8000;"
+  const replacingSubstring = `uint160 constant SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET = ${params.SYSTEM_CONTRACTS_OFFSET};`
 
   const contracts = await glob(
     [`${CONTRACTS_DIR}/**/*.sol`, `${CONTRACTS_DIR}/**/*.yul`, `${CONTRACTS_DIR}/**/*.zasm`],
     { onlyFiles: true }
   );
 
-  for (const contract of contracts) {
-    const preprocessed = await renderFile(contract, params);
-    const fileName = `${OUTPUT_DIR}/${contract.slice(CONTRACTS_DIR.length)}`;
+  for (const contractPath of contracts) {
+    let contract = fs.readFileSync(contractPath,'utf8');
+    const preprocessed = await contract.replace(substring, replacingSubstring);
+    const fileName = `${OUTPUT_DIR}/${contractPath.slice(CONTRACTS_DIR.length)}`;
     const directory = path.dirname(fileName);
     if (!existsSync(directory)) {
       mkdirSync(directory, { recursive: true });