Thanks for all the kind words. I usually avoid forums like the plague. I figured I would get flamed for speaking poorly of the Rover v8.
There are plenty of 4.3l v6s out there and many junk yards yank the engine out with all accessories, ecu, wiring, O2 ect.. My thought right now is to pull everything out of the rover engine compartment, repaint, and start from scratch.
There is no doubt I will need to reprogram the ECU. I will have to disable the immobilizer for starters. I am sure there will be other random diagnostic problems I will work threw so I will definitely have the diagnostic port wired correctly to play with that. The reason I mention the manual transmission is that most likely the engine I get will be an automatic. The ECU will be looking for communication from the automatic transmission controller and when it doesn't find it it will not be happy. One thought is to just buy an ECU from a manual truck and start with that because the calibration differences can be pretty difficult to figure out.
I really want to use production hardware for reliability. I want this truck to last a long time and be able to take me to some pretty remote areas. I am not new to aftermarket or production ECUs. I do realize gaining access to changing the calibration on some production ECUs can be difficult. I have back up plans though and people I can get help from. I am not worried though, It most likely runs a similar Delphi system like that of the LS1 and there is a world of aftermarket programmers for those. I can't say anymore then that but if someone is really seriously interested you can contact me privately.
Also I am not worried at all about emissions. If things go to plan and I can use the GM factory ECU with 02 sensors and aftermarket cats, the emissions should be much better then the 1996 4.0l Rover.
Unfortunately I have been spending money on other things recently and have not gotten up the funds for the new engine to really get started. I am thinking middle to end of July I will start though.
I will try to take a lot of pictures but don't expect a huge website detailing the install.
Sam
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