yardy8301 wrote:Id be more worried about how to pass emissions testing. I don't think you'll have a problem with inspection unless you plan on selling it.
I wont have problem with the sniff test since this engine will be considerably better on emissions than the renny.
As long as the swap goes well and I can get at least one of the ecu's to be cooperative then i should have any ETCs which for now is all they check for on my car, and with this swap I'll basically have the car Mazda should have made in the first place, so I dont intend to sell it
yardy8301 wrote:
What's wrong with your current engine?
let me put it this way, with the amount of miles I drive, if I can manage the same fuel economy as the V6 'stang, then this will save me about $450 dollars a month in fuel meaning that my most optimistic estimate of the swap is paid for in 10 months to a year.
My current engine has straight-6 power and smoothness, 4-cylinder torque and V8 thirst, that and it has 100k miles on it and is argueably a ticking bomb.
the new engine gets 31mpg in a car weighing 600# more than mine, has over 300hp and 280#ft of torque, plus I think the swap will be fun to do since I like doing things like pulling my hair out
v10climber wrote:I support this idea. Therefore, I'd be down for some wrenching sessions. We going to have to do this in your driveway?
sort of, it will be between my garage and my friend down the streets garage, but the first order of business would be stripping the mustang of all it's parts, setting aside what we'll need and logging what I can sell. I'd like to get the engineering of parts to be fabbed and such knocked out without having to give up the rx as a daily driver until its absolutely necessary.
There are a ton of things to think about first though, so I'm looking into it casually for now, but once the trigger is pulled on it I want to get it done prety quickly.
