Engine swap

[George Smiley]

Hi all

My friend recently bought a Monaro with a duff engine. He is looking to swap a 5.7 hemi into it, is this easy?

[bigwheel]

Including the ECU?

[George Smiley]

it comes with ecu and loom

[vxr2010]

I would just put a tuned monaro engine into it , it often costs the earth or causes big headaches swapping an engine for another , unless the car is designed for it , a friend of mine put a lotus carlton engine into a carlton estate plus put an auto box , it always seem to have issues and cost a load

[mfp4073]

I would make it easy, sell the Hemi and buy the correct engine for the Monaro, otherwise it's going to be a lot of grief for no benefit.

[anonymous-user]

This is the worst idea ever, I’d wager it will be impossible to get the ECU and standard BCM to talk to each other. Then you have all the hassle of making it fit for no benefit. Just get another LS1 or LS2.

[jameshsv]

bigwheel said:

Including the ECU?

What makes the engine is duff.

[SturdyHSV]

Sadly I'd be inclined to agree, getting a factory dodge ecu (assuming that's what comes with the engine) talking to the Monaro BCM will be.... Hard. Also, nobody else will have done it, so he'll be learning it all himself.

And then ultimately, you'll end up with... A worse engine than a decent ls1?

If he went completely standalone ecu (£££) then I imagine at least there'll be some experience online of wiring it in to a Monaro, either a haltech and check the aus forums, or something American and check ls1gto.com etc.

Do the hemis just bolt up to a t56?

[George Smiley]

They've given up on idea plus a hemi would be wrong