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Cool yes, practical, not very. I've never heard of anyone doing this, but anything is possible. Big problem might be getting parts for the engine. Word on the street is some of the parts for these rare engines are made of unobtainium. If you are planning on driving the car, a more practical engine is an LS or another Gen I.
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Youll want one that is complete with all accessories, everything. If you dont have an ECM youll have to go aftermarket
The fuel system uses 2 fuel pumps, 2 sets of injectors and a funky cooling system that uses a bypass. Youll need it so you dont blow your tanks up
Id use a BB front spring too...one good thing is once in youll probably never be able to blow it up, wear it out or have to work on it. THey are one anvil of an engine you can beat on endlessly.
wow- and see, I contemplated getting a 90 ZR1 and swapping in an LS so I could drive it. It would be an interesting, or at least incredibly expensive, swap.
Why not just take the easy route - swap in a LS???
I'd do it -just because you can!!! I think it's a really neat engine... IIRC there were about 7000 ZR1s built. And there is a number brand new crate engines have been mothballed.
Supposedly each engine was dynoed before it shipped out.
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