Duratec 2.3 engine swap

xr4man · Post by **xr4man** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:11 am

can't wait

Post by **anglin** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:44 pm

Greenturbo wrote:sweet!

No kidding! I'm so glad the project is continuing. I can't wait to see how things continue with it.

In the meanwhile, Ray Covino sent me the following link earlier today. I guy has got a Duratec 2.3 in his SVO and it doesn't look like it is going to take too much longer to wrap up.

http://forums.focaljet.com/team-rigz/50 ... nside.html

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:00 am

Anglin,

Mr. Blue's roommate there (omnifocus) is a nationally competitive autoX'r, just as a FYI. i believe he's taken a couple HS championships with his focus, and recently placed with his FSP just ducky racing focus.

BeefFajitas · Post by **BeefFajitas** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:42 am

Cool build. He's gonna catch hell from the SVO guys... but oh well.

Post by **hEaT** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:09 am

BeefFajitas wrote:Cool build. He's gonna catch hell from the SVO guys... but oh well.

At least it's still a Ford/Mazda motor. Could be a 2JZ or something

Frag · Post by **Frag** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:46 pm

He started a post on Turboford as well. It's been a warm greeting.

Post by **anglin** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:02 am

I saw "turboford" and "warm greeting" and believed you were being sarcastic. Imagine my surprise when I read the thread and it actually was a warm greeting!

I'm glad more of these RWD turbo Duratec projects are happening. It's only good for the future of our hobby.

Cosworth · Post by **Cosworth** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:04 pm

I love the swap, and your welds look excellent. So your going to run the Megasquirt, which one? i am waiting for the new SM2 which is geared for squential injection. Cool project

SoKalXR · Post by **SoKalXR** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:07 am

Hey Rat Fink. Any more progress man? I wanna come look at this thing. Hell I wanna drive it if you'll let me!

Post by **espacef1fan** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:33 am

Wonder if he would be interested in making mounts and oil pans for this swap......

RatFink · Post by **RatFink** » Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:43 am

espacef1fan wrote:Wonder if he would be interested in making mounts and oil pans for this swap......

No, he wouldn't lol... This swap is way more involved than some mounts and an oil pan. He is actually trying to clear his plate, so he can make some more progress on this thing, just way too buried in customers work to do anything for himself. Besides I thought you said Quads For Rods=Fail?

Post by **espacef1fan** » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:15 pm

RatFink wrote:
espacef1fan wrote:Wonder if he would be interested in making mounts and oil pans for this swap......
No, he wouldn't lol... This swap is way more involved than some mounts and an oil pan. He is actually trying to clear his plate, so he can make some more progress on this thing, just way too buried in customers work to do anything for himself. Besides I thought you said Quads For Rods=Fail?

Mmm..I did say that. Dont care for the means to the solution... I'm going to try a different solution.

That header is sweet, would love to have that.

Anyways I'm going to try to use as much off the shelf stuff as possible, with a price list and see if I cant get more people to do this swap...

Jgrove998 · Post by **Jgrove998** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:48 pm

Sweet project.

I'm partial to it because I have the Focus ST that is boosted on 8 psi.

Post by **timxr8** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:17 pm

Any update? I'm in the middle of acquiring parts to do this exact swap, but I'll be using a log type header and a T3/T04B (pretty much an Escos spec T34 turbo). Which gearing are you planning on with the T5? Rearend? Suspension? Just curious.

RatFink · Post by **RatFink** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:15 pm

timxr8 wrote:Any update? I'm in the middle of acquiring parts to do this exact swap, but I'll be using a log type header and a T3/T04B (pretty much an Escos spec T34 turbo). Which gearing are you planning on with the T5? Rearend? Suspension? Just curious.

Wow, necro post come to life, lol. I almost feel bad replying without posting new pictures, but I am hammering down, getting ready for the BITD Vegas to Reno race. Anyway, I look forward to see what you come up with.
As far as my rear end, I am building my own beam with six degrees of angle and my own buggy type tubular trailing arms, using Chebby micro stub axles and 930 CV's I will probably keep the diff factory because the housing is all light weight aluminum and what not, but I do plan on adding a clutch type LSD. via MC2. My ultimate goal has shifted to all out Time Attack. I am looking into G Force gear boxes now and we will have to see where we go from here.

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