My 4.6L to GT500 5.4L swap

[Boozshey]

Couldn't tell ya... It was through a friend of a friend...

 

[RetroGT2006]

So I have been eyeballing GT500 auctions lately on copart and other sites, a few of them go for 5k or so....hmmm.
Boozshey just out of curiosity how much did you pick yours up for?

Couldn't tell ya... It was through a friend of a friend...

He could tell you but he will have to kill you after!!

 

[Boozshey]

He could tell you but he will have to kill you after!!

True true

 

[Fallenauthority]

Can't win em all I guess

 

[LAK3RS]

What exactly is considering good pricing on one?

 

[Boozshey]

Well the motors alone sometime sell upwards of $8000 all by themself. So...

 

[Fake_Snake]

yeah i got mine for 8500 but then about 250 for the shipping. it was pretty well dressed tho just need a few etc things not much tho

 

[Imatk]

Hey guys I just finished getting this done myself.

I have a question that maybe you can answer?

Since your car is an '05 (mine is an '06) did you get a TPMS error for the tire sensors?

Or should I say do you get it now?

I have the error, but don't know how to get rid of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Boozshey]

I am getting the TPMS error yes. In order to clear it, you will have to buy the straps, get them installed onto your wheels and then buy the remote to mate them with your car. It's $149.00 from LMR if I remember correctly.

 

[Imatk]

Now I don't have the body harness like you did, we just re-pinned the GT harness so I'm wondering if that will actually work for mine.

Also for some reason my cruise control doesn't work.

 

[Boozshey]

Yeah, that's why we did the entire body harness including dash harness. We didn't want to re-pin anything and hope that it would work.

To tell you the truth, I don't even know where the tire sensor communicates to inside the car. Did you happen to located the receiver for them someplace inside the car?

 

[Imatk]

No we didn't see any sensor for it at all.

 

[Boozshey]

the one area that has something different is behind the fuse box in the engine bay on the passenger strut area. there is a box that i dont think was on the 4.6 not sure what that is.... do you have that?

 

[Imatk]

I just spoke with my parts guy... apparently the sensor is in the smart junction box, so unless I swap that and the body harness then I can't get it to work... oh well

If I had a friggin '07 then I'd be ok, but because our cars '05-'06 didn't have TPMS it won't work.

I wish I could just figure out how to turn it off anyway... not sure why we need sensors to tell us our tires need air.

 

[Imatk]

Oh I had another question for you.

Did you have to swap your ABS module out?

 

[Boozshey]

I wish I could just figure out how to turn it off anyway... not sure why we need sensors to tell us our tires need air.

Yeah, I swapped out the SJB... So looks like I will be set.

Did you have to swap your ABS module out?

The one on the driver side engine bay? No... Left that alone.

 

[Imatk]

Cool thanks man.

 

[Boozshey]

Cool thanks man.

Question for you though... How many wires did you have to re-pin? Does your boost gauge work?

 

[Surfstang2020]

I just saw a feature car on a vista blue gt like mine that had the 5.4 swap your doing in muscle mustangs and fast fords i believe ( i suscribe to them and 5.0) and that thing was clean, good luck with your build and kudos on the hard work

 

[Boozshey]

Just thought I would bump it to match Alex's...