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I’ve posted a how-to in the how-to forum that goes into more detail if anyone wants more info on how to do the swap.

My brother and I recently completed a successful LLT to LFX engine swap for my 2009 SIDI VE SV6 ute and figured it would be beneficial to share the process for anyone else who is thinking of doing the same. The whole swap was completed for just the price of the LFX + cats, with no tuning or...

Most recent project: successful LLT to LFX swap for just the cost of the engine.

It would probably be beneficial for the community if I made a dedicated forum post outlining how I did the swap. It’s shocking how little info is available out there considering how (relatively) easy it was to do. I always figured it couldn’t be too hard if the shop in QLD were able to do the...

The block is identical, although the heads are redesigned to accomodate the integrated exhaust ports, new plastic intake manifold and bigger injectors. I believe the cams are also a little different. But if you swap everything I did they run basically identical to the LLT.

I believe in the forum my brother found the guy wasn’t swapping the fuel system like I did. He tuned the LLT ecu to run with the LFX fuel systems, which would probably give you all the benefits of the LFX without the hassle of ECU swapping. But of course tuning can be costly.

Ah, the one I had didn’t have a rubber seal. It was just one we had laying around. Certainly not as high quality as that one. Yeah I can see that filter would be better in the long run than a high flow K&N.

My experience would suggest otherwise but what makes you say that? The fact the K&N has a good rubber seal around the outside is the most important thing to me.

Unfortunately it was a simple matter of the air filter not sealing properly. I just used a cheap paper filter for a service and only found out later it wasn’t sitting properly. I was doing a lot of driving on country dirt roads at the time and it had ingested a lot of dust which scored two...

No, didn’t go through the trouble of buying a separate ECU and loom, but that option may still work if you really want all the benefits of the LFX (mainly fuel flex capability).

$3000 for the engine with cats, 80,000 ks. Or I could’ve got an LLT with 125,000 for over $4000

Well I went ahead with the swap, and it was a success! And surprisingly a lot easier than everyone here was making out. I purchased an LFX out of a 2016 SV6 and the cats off the same car, and that was all I bought. My brother luckily found a forum post from someone in the US who did the same...

Almost every LLT engine I can find is at least $4000 with high ks, including out of state, where LFXs are going for about $2500, and that’s for a better engine with lower ks and much closer to me. It will be much better for me to go with the LFX if I can find the info on how to do the swap

Well for one thing LLTs are much harder to come by, especially with low ks, and then they’re much more expensive, and less reliable (or else I probably wouldn’t be in this mess). I’ve seen that it’s possible to do LLT to LFX, I just need to know the details.