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  • Running for a week!!!!

    My brother and my self did the swap in a period of six days, thats counting picking up the motor, parts car, and the clutch and other odd parts. My car was a 2.8 with an auto-trans, it has sat for two years till now. It now has a 3400 out of a van, the 5-speed is out of a 91 cavalier, I used my 89 computer. As far as the Egr goes, we just eleminated it.(just a plate to cover it, no chip, no codes) The car idles at 700rpm....no idle issues like a lot of people said I would. We made the front motor mount in about 30 minutes, works great and I am running the new a/c compressor. This is a week today since I got it out and the only problem I had was I dropped a coil the first day, I have extra. drove it to school all week and pulled almost 27mpg with stock plugs in the motor (70,000 miles) and I don't baby things.

    The car runs great and everything works great but the only thing I haven't had a chance to look at is the speedo crap. My car had a gear driven speedo and the new trans has a electronicle. How do you get by this?

    I will get some pics up in a bit.

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    I would possibly swap to a newer ECM and cluster that uses an electric spedo. The J body guys can help you out way more then me. I haven't done anything with a J body before. But congrats on the successful swap
    -60v6's 2nd Jon M.
    91 Black Lumina Z34-5 speed
    92 Black Lumina Z34 5 speed (getting there, slowly... follow the progress here)
    94 Red Ford Ranger 2WD-5 speed
    Originally posted by Jay Leno
    Tires are cheap clutches...

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    • #3
      Thanks.I might have to switch? See, I am wondering if I can just change things out on the trans to be able to run and gear driven speedo.

      I raced a chevy xtreme truck today, took him by like 5-6 car lengths with some MAJOR wheel hop in 2nd and 3rd.

      It was on at the track of course

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      • #4
        Like I said, your better bet is the J body guys, or possibly the 3x00 area here. I am sure someone around here has done a similar swap and can point you in the right direction. But, I am not that person, unfortunately.
        -60v6's 2nd Jon M.
        91 Black Lumina Z34-5 speed
        92 Black Lumina Z34 5 speed (getting there, slowly... follow the progress here)
        94 Red Ford Ranger 2WD-5 speed
        Originally posted by Jay Leno
        Tires are cheap clutches...

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