If it was free to you I'd say drive it and appreciate it as is.
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Welcome to the forum. As a long block assembly?
It looks the same as it shares the same part #.
The flexplates may be different as the transaxles are different:
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It looks the same as it shares the same part #.
The flexplates may be different as the transaxles are different:
This thread is a great example of why I drive old iron.
My girl picked up a 2.4 touring convertible, runs great, long since paid, solid little runner, completely gutless and constantly hunting for a gear. I had a line on a wrecked 3.6 limited, low miles, cheap, car fax, 1 accident, worth the ask in parts all day long.
I figured transplant the nav, remote start, seat heaters, rims and obviously the motor / trans. Scrap or sell the rest. One model year difference, same gen, should be an easy unbolt one, bolt in the other. Except nobody on the **** internet could tell me how to make the electronics work and play nicely.
As far as I got is migrate the PCM and reflash the VIN to shut up the immobilizer but no answer on how to tell it engine size. Digging deeper I found a PCM that supposedly doesn't care 2.4 v 3.6 but again, generally zero technical clarity on something that shouldn't be more complicated than turning on any other factory option.
In my situation, cost / benefit is a no brainer. The biggest obstacle should be having enough metric wrenches. Starting with 2 complete running vehicles, it should be a weekend job and just about plug and play.
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My girl picked up a 2.4 touring convertible, runs great, long since paid, solid little runner, completely gutless and constantly hunting for a gear. I had a line on a wrecked 3.6 limited, low miles, cheap, car fax, 1 accident, worth the ask in parts all day long.
I figured transplant the nav, remote start, seat heaters, rims and obviously the motor / trans. Scrap or sell the rest. One model year difference, same gen, should be an easy unbolt one, bolt in the other. Except nobody on the **** internet could tell me how to make the electronics work and play nicely.
As far as I got is migrate the PCM and reflash the VIN to shut up the immobilizer but no answer on how to tell it engine size. Digging deeper I found a PCM that supposedly doesn't care 2.4 v 3.6 but again, generally zero technical clarity on something that shouldn't be more complicated than turning on any other factory option.
In my situation, cost / benefit is a no brainer. The biggest obstacle should be having enough metric wrenches. Starting with 2 complete running vehicles, it should be a weekend job and just about plug and play.
Yard man said $2k for the entire copart special. Looks like it got off the road, RF rim rash, a/c lines ripped, bent front sway bar, NO airbag deployment, low miles.
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