Thread: mazda speed 3 engine?

Guess I'll check the local mustang forums too LOL. I KNOW there's a late 90s early 2000s mustang at the junkyard. Just didn't look at it yet.

Yup its possible. Ill do it for you! For a small fee of course

yeah i ran into that and ended up mounting the coil pack on top of the cruise control unit in the engine bay.

Somebody will still have 5.8 lowers.

This may have been covered already, but Im not reading back, why not use the whole drivetrain out of a V8 Thunderbird? V8, 5 Speed Stick, Rear wheel drive.

unless you have the ECU and PCM to go with the engine as well as everything else you need to make this swap then it probably wont be worth the money you are going to spend to buy it. the engine will bolt in and it will even bolt to the transmission in your car provided you have a manual trans. if you have an automatic then you will need to convert to car to a maunal in order to make the entire swap go as smoothly as possible as i havent read...

careful about the 2002's you might get one from 2002.5+, if you do you'll have to swap over the old style shifter

ok guys so my hommie figured out how to make everything work, we put the manual ecu in but kept the auto wire harness...it took a lot of hours and research to find out how to do it without changing the whole harness...so if you guys want the write up he did let me know but it will cost, still cheaper than you would pay anywhere else...it's nice to have a speedo again and cruise control...oh yeah also make sure you have the key chip for...

Independent schmindependent. There's nothing catastrophic about solid axles, they work and are pretty tough, if you think your focus will handle like a focus after swapping in a v8 and a IRS of any kind, good luck. Just compare the price of getting the cobra IRS setup to a standard 8.8, the savings can be used to tighten any suspension issues you think you'd have.

Thanks bro