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Ferrari engine swap (kinda)

3941 Views 36 Replies 11 Participants Last post by  thomason2wheels
I am in the early stages of swapping a Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio (baby ferrari) engine into a 22 GR86

I already have the engine and trans and engine wiring has been converted.
Engine is a ferrari developed (basically a V6 twin turbo version of the ferrari californa engine)
It will be run using a MoTec M142 (on a backorder)
We are using ZF 8HP trans controlled by a standalone GCU from TurboLamik

If anyone on here has some experience with CAN messaging please ping me.

Firing up this engine in a GR86 is not super hard with a MoTec but it would be great if we could get some of the factory things to work with this ECU

Thanks
Greg

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Curious about the 8-speed. The FA24D engine has a wide flat torque curve that's not peaky, and the vehicle isn't a lumbering heavyweight...not the usual conditions where an 8-speed is deployed.
Curious about the 8-speed. The FA24D engine has a wide flat torque curve that's not peaky, and the vehicle isn't a lumbering heavyweight...not the usual conditions where an 8-speed is deployed.
Actually answered my own dumb question, lol. You're not using the FA24D! :LOL:
maybe it would help to stay away from the dip

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Yeah, makes sense if you're trying to stay above 4600 rpm to make power at high speeds on a track. On the street, a 10-15 ft-lb dip 3500 to 4500 rpm doesn't really prevent productive use of the available torque from 2500 to 7300 rpm. Between those two points, torque never drops below a very usable 150 ft-lbs.
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The ZF8 is insanely quick and accurate. I don't know where you're coming from.
Go read the question and my answer again.
I was talking about the subaru trans

I am using ZF 8HP because it awesome
I also misunderstood this at first. I finally realized Greg was talking about the stock trans.
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Looks good so far.

I forgot to ask if the original engine in the project car was blown or if it was good and you're using the sale of it to help finance the swap.
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