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Old 06-30-2012, 12:43 AM
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Re: What will 2.3l engine fit in?

Good luck making the computer accept the new engine.

Ideally, you would need to replace the engine, transmission and ALL of the computers (ECU, BCM, airbag, abs, instrument cluster, cruise control and the radio) as they are tied to the bcm password, which is based off the vehicle VIN number. Also all the wiring would have to be replaced. or atleast badly hacked up.

The PCM has been programmed based on the target engine and transmission.

In other words: if it's not the same engine, you can't really swap without lots of hacking in most cases. The only easy swap would be if they use the same sensors in both, and that the parameters are the same... then maybe it could work...
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