Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting 95 Intake manifold on 96 engine?

Munched a rod bearing on my 95SE and just bought a 96 mystique engine on Ebay. To the best of my knowledge, this should pretty mutch bolt in. I know the 96 duratecs used the electricaly operated IMRC while my 95 uses the vacuum actuation. Anyone see any problems with swapping UIM and LIM from my 95 to the 96 engine?

Also, I will probably rebuild my old engine myself. I am not anticipating any major machine work to be nescessary (I hope!) as it only ran for about 40 seconds at idle with the bad bearing, just long enough for me to crall under and put a mechanics stethascope on the oil pan. Oil pressure stayed good.(Sucker gave out right in my driveway!)

Has anyone here actually rebuilt a 2.5 themselves ? If so how hard was it and how expensive to do? I've rebuilt a bunch of small block Chevy's and a couple of Mazda 4 cylinders, so per se rebuilding an engine is NOT new to me. Any info would be helpfull!