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Engine Swap!
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:02 pm
by frankjt96
Has anyone ever heard of doing the CSVT engine swap with the Focus, sedan, wagon, or hatchback? I've heard ppl talk about it but never actually seen it. Does anyone know anything about it?
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:17 pm
by Pappy
frankjt96 wrote:Has anyone ever heard of doing the CSVT engine swap with the Focus, sedan, wagon, or hatchback? I've heard ppl talk about it but never actually seen it. Does anyone know anything about it?
It's been done. I toyed around with the idea when my motor popped last summer.
There are no 'kits' to do it though. It takes a TON of fabrication (motor mounts, tubing, wire harness work, etc.) The wiring has to be completely re-done, recute and splice pretty much the entire wire harness etc. Not any great way to get it tuned either.
Possible, but hard. Also there is no room left in the bay to ever do anything else to the motor.
I figured it was cheaper to swap in a fresh zetec block and add boost for the same power and the ability to add more if I needed/wanted.
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:43 am
by trahma
There's a reason only 3 swaps were ever done like this. Like Pappy said it's a ton of work to do the swap. ZX3Tuning originally was trying to create a kit based on their yellow car but in the end figured it was far too expensive to try to create the kit and market it.
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:07 am
by Redlineracer12
Might as well drop in a v8 while your at it and convert it to rwd
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:56 am
by o2designs
Yeah, its a pain in the ass swapping in that Mazda motor...
haha
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:03 am
by Redlineracer12
Here we go again....
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:20 pm
by SVT-swap
I would advise that you stay away from that engine. Any repairs on that thing suck.
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:16 am
by Redlineracer12
SVT-swap wrote:I would advise that you stay away from that engine. Any repairs on that thing suck.
I don't know what you're talking about
Easiest engine to work on evar
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:09 pm
by Steve@Tasca
o2designs wrote:Yeah, its a pain in the ass swapping in that Mazda motor...
haha
I thought it was Yamaha
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:09 pm
by harold
Yeah, the Yamaha with 2 T3s hanging off it make a great engine in an XR4Ti...
Re: Engine Swap!
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:27 pm
by focinite
just go with the svtf swap, you only need to cut at the fuel pump ,then yank the harness out, put in the svt harness,change a few connectors,get rid of the abs crap( unless you have abs already then its easier to leave it) bolt it all to gether slam it with 8 psi and a good tune and clutch, and have fun with your 300 horse svt zx3 hybrid.