copper lines now that's different

 

No ebay flammage? I'm disappointed. They ride and handle well. Not great, but good.

 

Late pic for funsies. I forgot the balancer and chains LOL. I strapped the motor in and out and pulled the tranny up with them

 

Utec = biggest PoS made. 100% junk. Turbo XS should commit seppuku.

 

Not to argue with you but I disagree. Utec for the cost and ease of operation is pretty damn good. I'm not saying it's the greatest thing ever. But for the price you can't go wrong. It's not the systems fault that it's older technology. I mean here it is ten years later and still a usable system. Turbo xs kinda screwed everyone by never updating the software and abandoning the thing yea. It works for what I need on my turbo 5.5 gen.

Do you have one that you're having trouble with? I'm fairly good at using and tuning with it maybe I can help you out?

 

Hardware is junk. ****er is going in the trash. No spark on cylinder 1. I'm using Darren's PnP harness.
Googling reveals that misfires are more common than herpes on these.

 

Hmmm. Could be a bad unit. Never had a no spark issue so I'm guessing if everything on the car is right which I believe it would be then maybe you have a defective unit. Unfortunately when Buying these used it happens a fair amount. I had to go thru a couple of tuner boxes before I came to the conclusion it was in the wiring harness. Someone had hacked into it so it was getting power but the o2 sensor wasn't. New wire harness problem solved. The utec itself I hadn't experienced any issues.

Just to make sure you did run a good ground? The same molex connector that has the selector wheel on it should have a wire off of it for a ground connection. If you don't ground that wire I know you can have different stuff happen.

 

Yeah, I grounded that pin.

 

Other people want to do the swap, but they're a bit shy due to some info missing. It would be great if you 5.7 guys could post the missing info.

 

I've been following the 5.7 swap stuff recently and I'm digging people's progress for sure. I don't want to change the subject too much, but I feel you on the UTEC thing. I'm new to a lot of this tuning game, and I personally haven't worked with tuning the UTEC, but the UTEC is responsible for a lot of the weird driveability problems with my car. It does its job, but it still is flawed. Cef had to bring an extra UTEC just in case my UTEC didn't work. I'll probably be looking into something better when I have some money again.

Definitely following these swaps though for more info. One day my 3.5 will kick the bucket.

 

Just reading back over this thread, and thought I would update.

The Utec was fine, the harness had loose contacts and wouldn't work.

I got a plug from the JY and redid the ENTIRE harness after getting this from him. It was figured out by installing the Utec in my 06 g35 for testing.

 

OOOOO, now that its available you should flash the stock ecu. Drivability issues be gone!

 

glad I came across this one, lots of good info in this thread. I just gone done installing my alternator, power steering pump, front compressor bracket and Nisformance tensioner. I actually trimmed a small chunk off the rear cam gear cover/timing chain tensioner cover in case the belt gets too close..

 

Sory to necro and old thread, but I have to ask, what alternator pully did you use there?