Mikes5thAve
Well-Known Member
Ahh, but that depends which '80's car you've got and which one you can start off with.
Case in point: my '80 LeBaron coupe parts car was a non-LB vehicle, pure and simple ECU. That made for a perfect 'donor' because the remainder of the engine bay harness was literally a plug-in (not quite PnP, but close enough) to my '80 Diplomat coupe harness.
The '81 Diplomat coupe I have in my garage is a /6 car and that's an ECU car as well, albeit the wiring is a little different, so not quite as simple as a V8 to V8 swap.
I do agree though that the later '80's cars, perhaps as early as '82 and onwards, are probably much more of a challenge!
Yeah but those 80/81s that for some reason didn't have the computer aren't that common to find to get parts from.
I don't know when the engine plug changed but when I did my 360 swap I wired in the computer because I had all those parts and nothing for the ignition conversion and the engine harness plug was different between the two cars and I had to splice in the ballast resistor that computer used. The plus is half the wiring was already done because of that when I finally did do the ignition conversion.