Swapping to LT1 on a tight budget...
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From: West Des Moines, IA
Car: 2008.5 Mazdaspeed 3 GT
Engine: 2.3 DISI Turbo
Transmission: 6 speed MT
Swapping to LT1 on a tight budget...
- LT1 intake minus rails/injectors $50 shipped
- Low mileage rails from Ebay $80 shipped
- 9000 mile 19# Mustang injectors $80 shipped
- '87+ distributor/coil/wires/misc $87 shipped
The modifications to the manifold (clearance for distributor/distributor hole/EGR block/etc) will all be done in my garage shop myself. Now all I need is the fuel lines/connectors that I will probably have made locally for $40 or so. With gaskets it should still be less than $400 for the convertion. I should be able to get more than that for the stock TPI units and SLP runner set up, even more if I powder coat it before I sell it. It could actually pay to convert to the LT1 set up!!!
I'll have pics soon of the LT1 intake after the modifications are done and it's powder coated. I can't wait!!!:lala:
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From: West Des Moines, IA
Car: 2008.5 Mazdaspeed 3 GT
Engine: 2.3 DISI Turbo
Transmission: 6 speed MT
Originally posted by Vader
Don't forget the cost of the MAF/TB plumbing, and possible reprogramming of the ECM.
Thsi should prove interesting, Keep us posted on the progress.
Don't forget the cost of the MAF/TB plumbing, and possible reprogramming of the ECM.
Thsi should prove interesting, Keep us posted on the progress.


The ECM is already reprogrammed via PP2 and a Moates adapter. The only other thing I need is a remote thermostat housing that I can hopefully pick up cheap at a swap meet/Ebay/or other form. The radiator hoses I should be fine with from other projects I've had.
A bit of slight cost for materials to fabricate the distributor spacer/EGR block off plates/etc, but those pieces I should be able to find in scrap at the metal supply shop really cheap, or in my metal pile in the corner of the garage.
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