5sfe into my 95 st?, acn i swap a 5sfe into my95 st, would it make a big change? Options

[zero07]

does anyone know if i can swap a 5sfe into my 95 st, would it make a big change?

[Celicaguy13]

Honestly, No the 5SFE is not cost efficient to swap into an ST, why? because you need different motor mounts, ECU, harness, transmission, axels, etc. If you want to swap in a better motor than the 7A then you should sell the 5S and use that money to buy a 4AGE. You can get them relatively cheap and they will bolt up to your current transmission and motor mounts. The only pieces you really need are the ECU and harness.

I'm sorry but that's some bad advice. I wonder why people make mounts, harness, transaxles, axles etc such a big deal? You can get all at once cheap at a wrecking yard. This is far from being a complicated swap and parts are all over. As far as a 4age goes, the only obvious choice for an upgrade is either a ST or BT 4age and even then it's not worth it. And on top of that, I believe you need to use the 4age tranny and axle setup also. Plus ST's get around 120whp and blacktops get about 145whp which is easily obtainable with a slightly modded 5s. Plus you get ALOT MORE torque. This is the reason why we don't see a lot of new ideas come out because people always bad mouth simple swaps that may turn out to something different. This is also the reason why 5sfe projects are trashed because of all this bad garbage floating around.

Anyways dude, I say go for it if you've done enough good research. Look up Jim Snodgrass's old setup. He made good power and all he had was a port job and 1 upgraded cam and made around 140whp 150torque. And i personally know that it was a mild setup because I owned that head at one point.

This post has been edited by Celicaguy13: Apr 25, 2007 - 8:45 PM