# Engine Swap **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [December 12, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247 "2007-12-12T00:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Navin\_R\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@Navin\_R\_Johnson](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Navin_R_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/1 "2007-12-12T00:10:13Z")
A friend is about to attempt to swap engines from her 1989 Camaro to her 1994 Suburban. The engine from the Camaro is factory…will it fit? ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/2 "2007-12-12T00:15:21Z")
It will probably fit, but that’s just the beginning. Getting the older engine to run with the '94 computer may be difficult to impossible. Swapping engines is getting harder and harder, mostly because the computers. ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/3 "2007-12-12T00:50:30Z")
Don’t want to sound like a JERK but it might be a nightmare. By the way, this is my first computer, and my very first internet post. I’m famous! I’m famous! ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/4 "2007-12-12T01:09:28Z")
It’s not your first post. You posted an answer to another question earlier. And, by the way, you’re NOT famous. Not yet, at least. ---
**Author:** ![stronzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stronzo/32/132_2.png) [@stronzo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/stronzo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/5 "2007-12-12T01:28:43Z")
I think somebody missed the joke… > **[The Jerk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerk_(film))** > > The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias. This was Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The film also features Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, and Jackie Mason. > Navin R. Johnson is the white adopted son of black sharecroppers, who grows to adulthood naïvely unaware of his obvious adoption. He stands out in his family not just because of his skin color but because of his utter lack of rhythm when... ---
**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/6 "2007-12-12T03:53:45Z")
Internet post. Telephone directory. Not quite the same. And as I said, it’s not his/her first post. ---
**Author:** ![karl-sieger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@karl-sieger](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karl-sieger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/7 "2007-12-13T03:33:29Z")
mc- smell the roses, old buddy. It was a complete joke- not meant to be taken seriously; but I apologize if you thought my post was inappropriate. Notice OP’s username, by the way? ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/8 "2007-12-13T03:52:29Z")
Look, he even has a MySpace page, he must be famous: > **[Featured Content on Myspace](https://myspace.com/)** > > Featured Content on Myspace ---
**Author:** ![Loafer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loafer/32/28_2.png) [@Loafer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Loafer)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/9 "2007-12-13T13:18:42Z")
Both vehicles will have throttle body fuel injection, and if both are 350 engines it should be a pretty easy swap. The engine from the Camaro will likely start and run fine with the Suburban ECU, but you may need to have a new PROM chip burned for best results. I’m not positive, but you may even be able to swap the PROM fron the Camaro ECU to the Suburban. ---
**Author:** ![charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@charles](https://community.cartalk.com/u/charles)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/10 "2007-12-31T20:05:29Z")
depending on what state you live on watch the emission laws. check them on changing engines. the exhaust system may not be the same size to bolt to manifolds. check the distance as to were the motor mounts are place on the block,one may be set 10 inchs from front and another 13 inchs, this is just a statement . will the trans match up to the other engine. is the diameter of hoses the same. why are putting an this engine in. you can som times call a junk yard they have a parts exchange book ---
**Author:** ![rocketman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@rocketman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rocketman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/engine-swap/8247/11 "2007-12-31T22:56:17Z")
Yeah, how 'bout it! Happy New Year! Rocketman