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Bless fuel injection. LOL. It seems that every new generation of cars has some extra kick. If it wasn't a variable intake manifold then it was variable cam timing. Now all of a sudden we have 2-stage VTCs. I have to disagree with the complexity issue. People have this blindfold on them that makes them believe that a full 3.5 swap it is extremely difficult, but when I look at all the pin-outs, what is different, what is simular ... it all seems like it is just time consuming and requires dedication. From the little debate thread I opened a while ago, someone provided that fact that 7 of the 9 harnesses were plug and play. Among the ones that just don't line up period (like Drive-by-wire), they are just run as new wires. I am willing to bet that it is possible with a fully intact 3.5 ECU, main harness, and engine harness that you can crank the car and drive (with a manual transmission) without ANY soldering. (Note you will probably have a CEL and have a few options not working).
Please note that I am not saying it is cheap or easy to find fully intact harnesses cause they are usually cut at the junkyard.
My point in all this rant is that it shouldn't be too much extra wiring to get ths new technologies to work.
The main hang is my belief that we will not see a FWD configuation of this engine for a little while (and it may require cutting the hood).
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