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TomT

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Hey Guys,

Excuse me if this is in the wrong place, wasn't sure.

As some of you may have seen in the "What's pissing you off today" thread I've had the very unfortunate event where I've hit a patch of oil in my pride and joy at powercruise and gone into the concrete wall with driver's side at about 80kph.

I can barely stand to look at the car but from what we've gathered (haven't had it properly check yet):

- Only passenger rear door opens properly

- Most panels are destroyed

- Both wheels on driver's side are destroyed

- front driver's wheel does what it wants (broken suspension?)

- Windscreen, bonnet, boot etc all gone.

As far as I know mechanically all seems ok. Engine/turbo/gearbox/intercooler all look untouched. Turned it off straight away, coolant hose on cold side snapped both ends that's about all we could see with a tiny look. (Apart from small cosmetic things like hot side air box squashed etc)

Selling isn't going to do much considering how much I've spent on all the parts.

What I'm thinking is getting maybe a cheaper g6e with some luxeries and swapping everything over (driveline, engine, brakes, fuel system, intercooler etc)

Has anyone done this or know how much work/problems/money is involved in the swap? Will be doing as much of the swap as possible myself.

Also will a turbo/non turbo g6e make any difference if only keeping body? Coming from a 2010 xr6t sedan.

Thanks in advance! Hurting bad here :(

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Mate sorry to hear brother

To answer your question

A non turbo g6e will do if you are swapping your ecu and entire driveline over

Sorry to hear bud

Sucks about the oil slick

Did the even organizers say anything

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Excuse me if silly question but why would you need to swap ECU?

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Your ECU is set for your car and icc etc. So if you change it all over easy as. Otherwise the other cars ECU will need so form of programming to accept the change.

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Oh ok, does that apply say if you bought a built engine too?

Obviously if I buy a car to swap everything into the ICC will be in there, I was just hoping to swap everything and flash the new ecu with tune.

What part that I'm swapping is the ecu linked to?

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Oh no. Sorry to hear this!

I would imagine the cheapest way will be to buy an XR6 non turbo and swap it all over if your capable of doing it yourself.

I'd imagine it's going to get pretty expensive if you need to pay somebody to do it.

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Is there any weaker parts in the N/A models that I won't be changing? I heard diff cradle could be

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All I've heard it's easier to keep the drive train mated with its original ecu and then you have to get Ford to resync the rest of it

But that's only what I've heard

And also unsure about weaker parts

You could be a trail blazer for this

All though I do know of a guy on here who changed his g6 to an xr6t drive line

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The ECU talks to the other modules, as for the engine its more keeping a tune with an engine. The ECU I'm pretty sure will just drive any engine as it doesn't know any better. But the BEM and some other modules are paired to the ECU.

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Would any of those modules be in the engine or driveline though? (I know BEM is body electrics but not sure where that is)

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