Engine swap
02-28-2016, 11:27 PM
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Engine swap
Hi, i have a 09 lap engine cobalt automatic and it been in a accident. The engine in it still has 60,000 miles and i was wondering what other car would go perfect with the swap? There a few pictures of the balt you can view... and is there any advice about what i shouldnt do, any tips would be helpful
Last edited by Jrocky; 02-28-2016 at 11:35 PM.
02-29-2016, 09:19 AM
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02-29-2016, 12:41 PM
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Lets say a 07, like if i took the engine out of the L61 car and then took the Lap engine out of the other one, what things would i have to change in the car?
03-01-2016, 12:23 PM
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You'd have to swap the entire harness/PCM, then try to get it to play nice with the BCM and the rest of the network. It's possible, but not worth it IMO for a base model auto car. In good shape the car is only worth a couple grand, so you're gonna buy a broken one, then spend hundreds of hours swapping everything, to end up with another base model car?
03-01-2016, 12:42 PM
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You'd have to swap the entire harness/PCM, then try to get it to play nice with the BCM and the rest of the network. It's possible, but not worth it IMO for a base model auto car. In good shape the car is only worth a couple grand, so you're gonna buy a broken one, then spend hundreds of hours swapping everything, to end up with another base model car?
OP its pretty easy to do in an 07+ l61 car if you have hptuners
i have an l61 car, swapped in an 07 le5, used a 10 lap engine harness, and am running an 08 LE5 tune on the stock ecu.
anything is possible
03-01-2016, 04:18 PM
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All the hours im going to be putting into this is nothing for me atm, I'm currently on EI atm so i got plenty of time until i goes back to work. Me and my father would be worth on this together so he'd will give me a hand with all of it. lets say i bought this car Cobalt for parts $400 ono | used cars & trucks | St. John's | Kijiji and i took everything out of the lap and put it into this white cobalt, like i mean everything the guts and all, would it be possible?
03-01-2016, 04:21 PM
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or maybe this car? 2005 cobalt | used cars & trucks | St. John's | Kijiji
03-01-2016, 07:41 PM
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03-01-2016, 07:46 PM
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03-01-2016, 08:12 PM
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thats not really necessary...
I left all of my internal body wiring alone. There are a couple connectors you have to repin but thats not hard at all. All 07-10 base models use the same ecu. Since you already have the ecu you need, you would probably only need to do a VATS(vehicle antitheft system) delete and the car would start right up.
I left all of my internal body wiring alone. There are a couple connectors you have to repin but thats not hard at all. All 07-10 base models use the same ecu. Since you already have the ecu you need, you would probably only need to do a VATS(vehicle antitheft system) delete and the car would start right up.
03-01-2016, 08:39 PM
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thats not really necessary...
I left all of my internal body wiring alone. There are a couple connectors you have to repin but thats not hard at all. All 07-10 base models use the same ecu. Since you already have the ecu you need, you would probably only need to do a VATS(vehicle antitheft system) delete and the car would start right up.
I left all of my internal body wiring alone. There are a couple connectors you have to repin but thats not hard at all. All 07-10 base models use the same ecu. Since you already have the ecu you need, you would probably only need to do a VATS(vehicle antitheft system) delete and the car would start right up.
03-02-2016, 03:01 PM
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Could you get me the diagrams now for future purposes and what about the vvt on the lap, do i just got to hook up the extra harness and put it the ecu?