Only if you're drinking the coolaid. It's well documented that you can have the Eco or the Boost.. but not both at the same time.

 

Would be interesting... but I don't think practical unless your a master fab and get off on this stuff. Oh wait you probably are. Haha.

X2 on the LSX. Hard to recommend throwing a chevy engine in a ford but its been done before effectively and would probably be cheaper with a lot more support as far as documentation and others who have done it.

 

If all you want is cheap HP then go get a 351 and throw any decent aftermarket HCI combo at it, done... No need to go and contaminate your Ford with a Govt Motors swap.

But that's not what this thread is all about anyways, it's about spending all the money you got plus some only to end up with a truck with the lamest exhaust sound on the planet.

 

1966 F100 EcoBoost Engine Swap (EcoBoosted) - The Garage Journal Board

 

I love 351's as much as much as one can, but it'd be a tight squeeze in a ranger. A stroker 302 would be better suited...the best thing about a 302 is its ability to squeeze into small spaces.

OR of course, lsx....hard to deny the venerable ls' potential.

Now if it was some Nissan engine we were talkin about swapping, that'd be blasphemy!

 

Some time back, Hot Rod (maybe CC) featured a 1st gen camaro with a big Japanese 6 (turbo?) & the chevi-verse imploded.

 

I think I saw that, Asian dude with a supra donor engine. Prob had the Jap car crowd up in arms too.

If it rips, it rips....if it's silly and rips, it's also still silly.

 

A local guy here has squeezed a 6.2 into a focus, now that's tight! A 351 stroker would trump an ls in my book.

 

Oh just about anything can be done, like the big block beetles where you see the driver basically in the back seat. There's doable, and there's practical.

A 351 is great, king of the small blocks for its strokability, strength, design ...but ls comes from a different era and is superior in many ways thanks to its evolution. It's too bad ford didn't take the next evolutionary step with the sbf....who knows what an aluminum 351 with 6 bolt mains, huge stroke potential, giant head bolts, free flowing heads would be like. It's not that the ls is superior, it's that it benefits from another generation of evolution. It's really not a fair comparison. 351 was king and is still awesome, ford didn't take it to another gen which would likely have led to its new crown, instead we got the modular.

There is also merit in the fact that the ls is compact enough to squeeze into just about anything.

 

Note this ^^^ is no longer the case now that the control pack is available from FMS...

CONTROLS PACK - 2013 3.5L ECO BOOST MANUAL TRANSMISSION | Part Details for M-6017-35CNTRL | Ford Performance Racing Parts

 

I've been thinking about an Ecoboost swap and researching this since Ford introduced the engines. It's not cheap nor simple to do, especially if you're going to be the first to try it. However, Coyote 5.0L swaps were the same way at first and now the big thing with a Fox or New Edge Mustang is to do that swap.

The controls pack above requires a 3.5L 2013+ Ecoboost engine as there have been revisions to the turbos and piping since Ford starting making them. Last I heard, the whole enginge was at least on Revision D, but that was over a year ago. You don't want the early turbos anyways since those were the ones having the hesitation issues before the 2013 upgrade. My dad has gone through 6 turbos on his 2011 F150, but the new ones seem to be holding up for now. The other major improvement in 2013 was correcting the intercooler piping to avoid having water from the bottom of the intercooler being sucked up into the engine. My wife's 2014 Ecoboost has all of these upgrades, but definitely something to think about if planning an engine swap.

As for the 351 vs LSx discussion, it's like comparing apples to giraffes. The LS is swapped into everything because it's been produced for a long time, has a small profile and can easily swap parts between the various versions. As a result the aftermarket has huge support for these engines. The 351 started to be phased out of Ford vehicles in 1991. That's before MAF systems were even designed for it and a major factor in modern engine tuning. Also there was always the Windsor vs Cleveland differences. I know I'm generalizing, but Ford gave up on this engine, causing the aftermarket and people looking for engines swaps to choose other options as well. As a result, it causes a discussions like this one trying to choose an engine to work with compared to GM's LS platform.

 

I checked that link out!!!WoW that guy has some talent! Lots to read the pics are great!