I'm looking to swap my inline 4 2.4L, to a V6 3.4L and am looking for some advice and basic price quotes.
Search the 3rd gen forum, you should find everything you need to know.
Basic price quotes? On what?
Sounds like you don't even know what you need or where to start. Once you figure that out, then you can start looking around for those parts and figuring out some prices. Don't expect the motor swap to be a hand out by any standard.
i find it amusing that SHOoff has nothing better to do but follow me around & be an unhelpful dick in even cross-forum. - Jon Mick
i'll do it for $10,000 and a case of beer.
Ill do it for $9999 and a case of beer.
ill do it for 5k and a case of miller light...
but seriously....ill do the labor for 5k plus u find the parts and yes i will help find them but no i will not pay for anything as its not my ride....
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Five thousand bucks for the install plus parts? That seems a little steep....
Buy a Grand Am with a 3.4, get a Mega Squirt, and the 2.2 transmission, I'm paying around $1300 for parts (and selling a bunch off of the Grand Am, so my costs of buying are levelling out), and then my husband is a Mechanic, he'll be doing the swap.
It's the easiest we've found how to do it. We also need motor mounts from an older Grand Am. Other then those 4 things, you're sailing. But yes, finding someone to install it could be hard to do... But good god, $5000!?!
-sunnirae- wrote:Five thousand bucks for the install plus parts? That seems a little steep....
Buy a Grand Am with a 3.4, get a Mega Squirt, and the 2.2 transmission, I'm paying around $1300 for parts (and selling a bunch off of the Grand Am, so my costs of buying are levelling out), and then my husband is a Mechanic, he'll be doing the swap.
It's the easiest we've found how to do it. We also need motor mounts from an older Grand Am. Other then those 4 things, you're sailing. But yes, finding someone to install it could be hard to do... But good god, $5000!?!
Yeah, but people that don't wanna do research or look up simple thing like an engine for themselves, get charged the big bucks.
i find it amusing that SHOoff has nothing better to do but follow me around & be an unhelpful dick in even cross-forum. - Jon Mick
Makes sense. =] My husband did all the research, I'll do all the driving!
-sunnirae- wrote:Five thousand bucks for the install plus parts? That seems a little steep....
Buy a Grand Am with a 3.4, get a Mega Squirt, and the 2.2 transmission, I'm paying around $1300 for parts (and selling a bunch off of the Grand Am, so my costs of buying are levelling out), and then my husband is a Mechanic, he'll be doing the swap.
It's the easiest we've found how to do it. We also need motor mounts from an older Grand Am. Other then those 4 things, you're sailing. But yes, finding someone to install it could be hard to do... But good god, $5000!?!
U realise that with a 2000+, u can use the wiring and PCM from a 00 impala and ALL the gauges work?
What gauges aren't going to work? From all the research we've done, we should be good to go?
And I'll take a peak at the GP! Thanks!
All the gauges and check engine lights work with the 2000+ cars and 2000-2001 Impala pcm.
But what gauges wouldn't work if I used the Mega Squirt - all of them!?
Quiklilcav wrote:^^Yup. MegaSquirt does not run factory gauges, especially on the 00+ vehicles, because everything is in the data stream from the factory ECM. You would have to piggy-back your factory ECM and wiring harness with it.
Not especially hard to do either.
Bonus about this is that it makes the factory wiring stay in place.
i find it amusing that SHOoff has nothing better to do but follow me around & be an unhelpful dick in even cross-forum. - Jon Mick
SHOoff, Would you be able to link me with how to piggyback the ECM with a Megasquirt? I really don't want to rip the WHOLE interior apart for my swap, and it's looking like putting in a megasquirt would be the easiest route.
No, there isn't a link to how to do it. You just have to go by the wiring diagrams.
Who said anything about ripping the whole dash apart? All piggybacking is done under the hood. Save for maybe tapping into an extra spot on the fuse panel. Nothing big.
i find it amusing that SHOoff has nothing better to do but follow me around & be an unhelpful dick in even cross-forum. - Jon Mick
Super thanks guys! My husband has got an idea in his brain. Now I need the Mega Squirt, haha!
