motor swap possibilities?

skatersheaskatershea Band Wagon
in Engine & Drivetrain
i will be getting a 86 wagon for free and the only problemm is is that it doesn't pass smog, i need to change the motor but because it is carburated(probably spelled wrong) i have heard it is very difficult to put in a newer fuel injected motor. its front wheel drive it that helps any? kinda a noob to the wagon thing and to the forum :?:

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  • fettcolsfettcols Wagonist
    I haven't looked at the site in a while but over on redpepper's there was a guy that came up with something fairly easy using D16Y8 harness, that is if you can't find an actual SI harness of the same vintage.
  • skatersheaskatershea Band Wagon
    so redpeppers is a website? i was just wondering because i know thhe fuel injections have computers and the carburated motors dont, wouldn't i have to do all thhe crazy wiring and like redo everything from the ecu to the gas tank? all electronically monitored by the ecu right?
  • fettcolsfettcols Wagonist
    What people do is pretty much swap the entire harness from an injected car. There's a guy that figured out how to tie in the front part of a Y7-Y8 harness because I guess there's less to tie into the dash and it's more of a direct engine to ecu route.

    There was guy on ecomodder's site that made a newer dash harness fit into one of the older cars but that would be quite a task for the unprepared. I guess he snipped most of the plugs and connected them to a newer harness. That would be a lot of work and probably many hours with wiring diagrams.

    The links below are to those sites. Redpepper is an amazing resource for the 87 and earlier models.

    http://www.redpepperracing.com/forums/i ... a62855844&
    http://ecomodder.com/
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