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242 2.3L Ecoboost 6spd Swap **Picture Heavy**

Cool build!! I would love to do an ecoboost in something someday. You worried at all about that trans crossmember? Looks pretty light duty with no real bracing for its intended job.
 
Been dreaming about this for a while myself (as I bounce between various non-LS swaps as the counterpart to my LS-swapped car). Definitely going to live vicariously as you build yours better than I could ever hope to :D

For the next guy planning one out before I'm ready to start (or I commit to some other random non-LS engine), the 2001-2012 Ranger pan and oil pump pickup with a balance shaft delete (and then following up with fabbing some baffling) would be an OE level pan solution. Because of the long Mazda/Ford heritage to the engine, there's a handful of different transmission options (T5, TKO, T56, M5OD, AZ6, MT82, probably a few others) as well with varying gear ratios and durability levels, but the MT82 with a bracket-mounted shifter really does seem like the way to go (although the brackets interfering with the tunnel surprised the heck out of me).
 
Cool build!! I would love to do an ecoboost in something someday. You worried at all about that trans crossmember? Looks pretty light duty with no real bracing for its intended job.

I think it'll do the job quite well, but if it doesn't, I can always build another with similar design. Really won't know until I put some actual torque down.

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For the next guy planning one out before I'm ready to start (or I commit to some other random non-LS engine), the 2001-2012 Ranger pan and oil pump pickup with a balance shaft delete (and then following up with fabbing some baffling) would be an OE level pan solution. ....(although the brackets interfering with the tunnel surprised the heck out of me).

I wanted to stay away from BSD as I've read quite a few articles on them not being worth the gain for the dramatic increase in NVH and reducing engine life. These particular brackets just made the trans wider right where the tunnel narrows before the shifter.
 
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Fueling Stuff


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It took me a while to find this diagram
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The Mustang intake is a complicated one, but I helped to make it further so. I'm using dual LED "bulbs" in a projector housing so I didn't need all four housings.

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So now I have a Demon-esque air tunnel that feeds my airbox

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This is the most complicated short piece of pipe I've worked on. IAT sensor, Bypass Valve dump, catch can dump, and PCV.

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The MT-82 calls for a hydro clutch and the motor has a electric pedal

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***There will be a video at the end of this post!***

PTP Turbo blanket

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Downpipe just to get the car started. It'll eventually be wrapped in PTP lava wrap. This will lead to a full 3" exhaust.

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Finished up all of the front end wiring...

Good quality and bright LEDs for the headlights

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I made this plate to hold the relays for the headlights and driving lights and front power distribution.

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It hangs off the 2 bolts that hold the Miata wiper fluid reservoir.

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Thiccboi radiator from Speedway

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Made a bracket for the coolant tank w/ a fluid sight and a cover/upper bracket for the rad

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Congrats, that sounds incredible. Whats next?

Thanks!

Finish the cage, mount the seats, start finishing the wiring (audio, interior fuse box, accessories - until my eyes bleed), and the shaft for electric power steering.
 
Thanks!

Finish the cage, mount the seats, start finishing the wiring (audio, interior fuse box, accessories - until my eyes bleed), and the shaft for electric power steering.

Nice, excited to see the final product.

Is the 2.3 a viable swap for the masses? This and the Ecotec from GM seem like good options for the Volvo community
 
I think so, but the motor is pretty tall. The motor can be had from all sorts of cars, obviously the mustang is the only RWD one and the FPP wiring kit made the electronics fairly simple.
 
I'm curious how the NPR intercooler will work with the FPP tune. The FPP tune on the 2.0 Ecoboost was a little zesty and it would go into limp mode from the charge temps being too high. I had to send the ECU back to Ford a few times to get a tune that worked well for racing, there's a few 2L engines with holes in lots of pistons and cylinders sitting in the corner of a friends barn. The initial tune was wayyyy too aggressive with boost and timing, and it pretty much ignored the knock sensor(?!?!?!). This was an issue they were starting to see in a few off road buggies/trucks that were using the 2.0L as well. Now SCT and a few others offer tuning kits for the the ecoboost swaps, but back in 2016 it was the dark ages... no one could tune one using the FPP ECU.

All this to say, keep an eye on things.
 
I'm curious how the NPR intercooler will work with the FPP tune. The FPP tune on the 2.0 Ecoboost was a little zesty and it would go into limp mode from the charge temps being too high. I had to send the ECU back to Ford a few times to get a tune that worked well for racing, there's a few 2L engines with holes in lots of pistons and cylinders sitting in the corner of a friends barn. The initial tune was wayyyy too aggressive with boost and timing, and it pretty much ignored the knock sensor(?!?!?!). This was an issue they were starting to see in a few off road buggies/trucks that were using the 2.0L as well. Now SCT and a few others offer tuning kits for the the ecoboost swaps, but back in 2016 it was the dark ages... no one could tune one using the FPP ECU.

All this to say, keep an eye on things.

HPTuners support its now, iirc. That would probably be the best way to go.
 
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