ok how hard would it to be to swap the whole engine/wireharness/ecu into my car? my current engine is about shot so is the wireing harness. i understand that i will need to find a place to mount the ECU and all that but shurely it cant be that hard. i am planning on moving to the FWD heads at some point so if i can do this that would be one major problem out of the way.

Probably just a pipe dream but i am so pissed at my car right now that i am tempted to sell it to someone for the norust/never wrecked body. have had a few $1000-$2000 offers.

 

It's not hard but I suggest a slightly different approach.

Put in the 3.4 engine first with your old harness. Then replace your harness with another stock used harness for the same car.

It's a nice upgrade and a lot less headaches!

Good luck!

 

Dale did that swap in show truck.

What I was planning w/the 3800 pcm was to put it in the a/c blower box (before it decided to break while being removed) since it was already there & the a/c didn't work anyway.

You'll also need to figure something out w/the tv cable, as teh 3.4 intake/tb mounting doesn't really have space for that routing.

 

get the 3.4,and use the 3.1 sd computer,and swap the 3.1 intake onto the 3.4.
u also need to change the timming cover from the 2.8/3.1 onto the 3.4