Well good news. Went to my local napa, honestly a great place. And I spoke to the store manager about their engines. He straight up told me the ironclad engines are straight junk and my napa outsources their engines. I didn’t get a brand name, but they are privately owned. And for basically the same price it also comes with a 7 year unlimited mile warranty. I will be pulling the trigger here within the couple days, and wait on my engine.
Not a simple bolt in and go. Id have to chsnge the tranny, tcase, drive shafts, motor mounts, wiring harness, ecm, probably more im not thinking of. And yea at that point you might as well put a v8 in it. I want to keep it original. And honestly im starting to love this little engine.
Yep if you are going to all that trouble you might as well drop a V-8 into it. While I'll admit I enjoy my V-8 there are times I miss the 4 popper.
For those times you just wanna feel "way underpowered?" lol
Agreed, the easiest thing to replace the 2.5L with is another 2.5L. 4.0L isn't a drop-in swap, and a V8 requires plenty of modifications as well.
I do prefer the originality and maybe 20 years from now the value of an original will blow away a lot of the V8 hack jobs.
$1900 plus $200 for the extended warranty. With a $450 core charge. I know i could’ve gotten it much cheaper directly from s&j but i figure napa took care of the ordering, shipping, and core return so it doesn’t bother me too much. Especially for how helpful and informative the manager was
Be sure to match up the block dowel pin locations with your bell housing before dropping the engine in, they will come with different configurations depending on the previous application.
