94.5stroker
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Little back ground info I have a 94 with 238/100 s369 combo and supporting mods with a 5 speed behind it. I've gotten into drag racing and I'm tired the manual kicking my ass. So I bought a 2002 auto and a built auto and I'm gonna slap my 94 motor with the built tranny behind it into the 02. This will be the first automatic I've ever owned, so it will be a learning curve for sure. I'm hoping to get into the 500-600 range with this set up but I never got it dynod last year after I got it together.
I'm curious on a few things though, I think I will swap the accessory brackets off the 02 motor to help simplify things. Then I should be able to use the sd wiring harness and pcm. Get my tunes changed for the pcm and auto. I'm thinking while its out I will put a fluidampr in to take some of the vibrations out maybe help keep the bottom end happy even though I'm sure its not. Prolly throw a melling in while its off. So if I get a fluidampr should I get a sd one so that everything will have the same number of groves for the serpentine? If I do this will I need to swap water pumps as well for clearance issues?
Also should I go ahead and run a billet flex plate? Or just use the stock flex plate from the 02? Will I need to swap the bell housing adapter plates between the two or are they all the same? Are there any other issues to be addressed from swapping from zf5 to the 4r100? This is my first auto so I don't know anything about the 4r100.
Any other little issues or things I should know to do the OBS to SD swap? I can't think of anything that shouldn't interchange pretty simply but I could be over looking something. I'm hoping my headers will clear but I think when I bought them I asked if there would be any issue between the OBS headers going into a SD, and he said there shouldn't be an issue as long as its OBS headers to OBS T4.
I'm curious on a few things though, I think I will swap the accessory brackets off the 02 motor to help simplify things. Then I should be able to use the sd wiring harness and pcm. Get my tunes changed for the pcm and auto. I'm thinking while its out I will put a fluidampr in to take some of the vibrations out maybe help keep the bottom end happy even though I'm sure its not. Prolly throw a melling in while its off. So if I get a fluidampr should I get a sd one so that everything will have the same number of groves for the serpentine? If I do this will I need to swap water pumps as well for clearance issues?
Also should I go ahead and run a billet flex plate? Or just use the stock flex plate from the 02? Will I need to swap the bell housing adapter plates between the two or are they all the same? Are there any other issues to be addressed from swapping from zf5 to the 4r100? This is my first auto so I don't know anything about the 4r100.
Any other little issues or things I should know to do the OBS to SD swap? I can't think of anything that shouldn't interchange pretty simply but I could be over looking something. I'm hoping my headers will clear but I think when I bought them I asked if there would be any issue between the OBS headers going into a SD, and he said there shouldn't be an issue as long as its OBS headers to OBS T4.
