Basics to a 3.6 tranplant

[rdane]

Bill V. mentoned,
"A very nice relatively inexpensive transplant package is a late 92 thru 94 964 or 95 993."

Is there a problem with later engines doing the engine swap? I am looking at a 3.6 from a '96 993.

[eion]

There's no problem with using a '96 or later engine (quite the opposite, in fact), as long as it's a European one that doesn't have the OBD-II stuff.

http://instant-g.com/Products/36Conversion/FAQs.html

[Paco Anton]

I guess the "inexpensive" part refers to the fact that post '95 engines are more expensive than 92-95.

Just my €0.02

[Bill Verburg]

Any of them can be t/p'd here's the heirarchy(IMHO) sorted by bang/bucks/issues

• 97-98 euro OBD1 most bang/fewest issues/ most bucks
• 96 OBD1 euro not sure but US models used a no longer supported OBD2 DME which must be swapped out for a 97 -98 version i just do not know what version of the DME was used in Europe
• 95 993 they are all the same( MAF & engine mounted filter are +'s
• 92-94 964 they are all the same (plastic manifolds and resolved head gasket issue are +'s)
• 97-98 US OBD2 I wouldn't touch one of these w/ a 10' pole there are people that have none them though
• 89-92 964 manifold/head gasket issues

Steve Timmins has more info in eion's reference