bobbywalter
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- Joined
- Aug 9, 2007
- Messages
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- Location
- woodhaven mi
- Vehicle Year
- 1988
- Make / Model
- FORD mostly
- Engine Type
- V8
- Engine Size
- BIGGER
- Transmission
- Automatic
- 2WD / 4WD
- 4WD
- Total Lift
- sawzall?
- Tire Size
- 33-44
- My credo
- it is easier to fix and understand than "her"
i would like to see what you have first. pretty sure you can use a modded setup. your pictures indicate it anyway.When I did this swap my original 2.3 duratec motor did have AC, but before the swap I had a turbo on the 2.3, which required deleting the AC to fit it in there. Even with my current swap the heater blend door gets in the way. I am currently using a little heater core thats meant for utility vehicles. It heats up real nice. It sits right where the passenger side glove box would have been, no big deal to me. I highly recommend going with a 2.3 ecoboost motor. Ford performance no longer sells the controls pack for the 2.0l, its discontinued. The biggest part of this swap is the heater ducting sadly. Lots of hacking away and test fitting. At some point (prob next summer) I would like to pull my whole dash out and throw out all the hacked up ducting since it serves me no purpose anymore at all.