my77stang

Can you swap an entire PI motor into a non-PI car without any other modifications? does all the wiring still work? the car in question is a 96 cougar and if we can put a slighty newer motor in we'll have a better chance of finding one with lower miles and pick up a couple HP in the process.

if the whole motor isnt a direct swap, i'll probably just stick with a non-PI motor. performance isnt an issue, but if its easily gotten then "why not"

amoosenamedhank

The first question that comes to my mind is the intake manifold. What kind of intake does the cougar use? Is it similar to the mustang or completely different. Because if you use a PI engine you're old intake won't work with the different head ports of the PI heads. So you will need to do something there or run a mustang intake.

Edit: check this out http://forums.tccoa.com/showthread.php?t=94152

my77stang

normally when you buy a junk yard motor it comes with the intake, throttle body, and any sensors attached to the motor so thats not a problem. what i dont know is if all of these various sensors and such are the same or in the same place as the non-pi motors.

amoosenamedhank

but they didn't make thunder birds and cougars with PI engines. So if you buy PI engine it's either going to have a truck intake or a mustang intake.

my77stang

whats the diff between the cougar and stang intakes? they should both be relatively low profile and exit on the passenger side right?

amoosenamedhank

That's what I was ask lol. I don't know if there is a difference, I just thought it would be something to look into. Looking at pictures, they look fairly similar.

That link I gave you should address all of the other questions on the swap.