My first 3.0l swap

[JSVT]

Well, my clutch went out on my 99 silver frost so I decided to do a 3.0 swap while the engine is out. Doing this swap has been a dream of mine for many years even before I owned one of these cars so I'm super excited. I went the port matched route. I've been at this for quite some time and thought I'd post my progress with the swap on here. I am keeping the SVT cams. SVT Warehouse (SVTTOUR) sourced the engine and did the porting and installed the cams and timing components. Luckily the drive was only a few hours away from me to pick it up.

Engine: 05 Sable 3.0l with 57k miles

Here is the 2.5l (313k miles) removed.

Bugzuki plates and porting


SVT cams, NOS Ford timing chains guides and tensioners installed. 2.5l motor mount and pcv box installed. I had the timing cover powdercoated smoke grey. Put all new timing cover gaskets, front seal and rtv in the correct spots. Bolts all torqued to spec. New pulleys too.


Valve covers powder coated


Valve covers installed with new gaskets. Motor mount powder coated spice black. Power steering pump and pulley installed. Lower intake manifold cleaned out and new gaskets put in. New water pump, belt and tensioner as well.


These were so bad looking before. Went with smoke grey. Looks so much better.



Powdercoated intake and throttle body. Went with a lighter silver to match the car. Found an old style plaque to better match my color scheme. Need to adjust it slightly. EGR will be deleted and tuned out.


Replaced old rusty studs with burnt titanium. New silver cerakoted MSDS headers(y pipe as well) with new gaskets.


Brand new escape oil pan powdercoated

 

[theboss3512]

This is gonna look so good under the hood man!! I just picked up a second 98 CSVT that's already swapped with a 3.0 from a Taurus.
What will you be doing as far as tuning? My daily has a built 2.5 with 11.1 comp, ARP rod, main, and head bolts, forged rods and pistons, and king bearings. I installed msds headers and y pipe, but the car is running the stock ECU and tune currently. I picked up an old SCT x3 thinking it would work, but when I plug it in it says the ECU is not supported so I'm a little stumped.
I also have no idea if the new one I got yesterday has anything for a tune, not sure if you need to tune these when they are 3.0 swapped to be honest. Trying to learn some things!

 

[JSVT]

This is gonna look so good under the hood man!! I just picked up a second 98 CSVT that's already swapped with a 3.0 from a Taurus.
What will you be doing as far as tuning? My daily has a built 2.5 with 11.1 comp, ARP rod, main, and head bolts, forged rods and pistons, and king bearings. I installed msds headers and y pipe, but the car is running the stock ECU and tune currently. I picked up an old SCT x3 thinking it would work, but when I plug it in it says the ECU is not supported so I'm a little stumped.
I also have no idea if the new one I got yesterday has anything for a tune, not sure if you need to tune these when they are 3.0 swapped to be honest. Trying to learn some things!

Thanks man! I can't wait to get it all back in the engine bay. As far as tuning I'm gonna get it on the dyno but I'll probably use the SCTx3. I do see a lot of people using SCTx3 but I don't know enough about it. But I do know plenty of people drive these 3.0l swapped svts without a tune and it does fairly well. I just wanna get the most I can out of it and get rid of the EGR. Tuning is not my area of expertise I will say. I know there is some info in the tuning stickies on here. I'm gonna be digging through it soon.