The swap was relatively easy. Just time consuming because its my first engine pull and I had no help.

Would recomend it to anyone. Only problem with the whole process was that I could not get them to schedule a time to pickup the core and it rusted from sitting outside. Already spoke with the shop and they apologized and will not be charging me a core if its unusable.

 

Any updates? How's the hi pro motor running? How many miles? Any problems?

 

I got about 6k miles on mine and running solid , just advanced to timing on it and got a lot more responsive , happy with it but a gas guzzler ! But still fun as hell !!

 

Have you driven any 3.4 motors? If so how do they compare?

 

No i haven't probably about the same , I did do a lot of parts replacement along with the motor rebuild along with bored out throttle body , ported heads , intake plenuim , and intake manifold , along with headers and exhaust , but tell you what , I bet that 3.4 feels real nice with the bolt on supercharger.

 

Nothing 3k won't take care of hahaha

 

So did you pass CA smog ok? Or did it require some extra finesse?

 

failed smog at first but due to a broken catalytic converter , replaced cat. And passed smog with very low numbers guy at smog shop said just like a new car.

 

UPDATES !!!! I just finished SAS on my 92 and this is my next task !

 

cool man , yeah when you call them to order your motor you will talk to the man in charge his name is Greg tell him you want your motor delivered in a timely matter cause he told 1 week it would take to build and ship motor and it took 3weeks also it took him 2 months to have my core picked up , just let him know your not into any games and want a solid motor rebuild ! , so far I got 6k miles on my motor and running solid , after the break in period I recommend advancing the timing a bit to get the nice power band out of it , and I paid an extra $200 to have the heads ported.

 

My raptor engine is still good! No problems besides a warped valve cover leak. Runs awesome! Goot about 15k on it and no problems. I was running premium and had the timing set to 20* and it had AWESOME power. I currently set it back to 12 so I could use regular gas again.

 

I've been watching this thread for a while now. Signed up so I could post. So if you had it all over again would you go back with the raptor?

 

nice , l run premium gas always and bumped up the timing a little too not sure what it's set at
But it got more responsive , think I'm gonna put the timing light on it and try and set it at 20 and see how she performs , but right now no issues and running strong