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My SVT swap
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Hey everyone, so this past weekend I finally ended up doing my SVT swap by myself. Let’s just say I think it would’ve been easier with someone else but oh well I got the job done Tongue just took me the whole day 9am-midnight with some breaks along the way. Anyways I just wanted to share with everyone my swap experience so I will try and be the most detailed I can be feel free to ask question or let me know if I should’ve done something different. Also I tried to take the most pictures I could but I did not want to get my camera too dirty. Okay let’s get this thread started.


First off here’s a list of what I used :
1.Used SVT header, I wanted to stay legal so I got an shop to wield in the egr connector( ford part #F1AZ-9F485-A)
Before
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After abit of sanding
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2 tubes wrapped
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All wrapped up but had to unwrap 2 tubes cause i forget to get the bung welded in [facepalm]
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With the bung welded in
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00223_zps9eda7bd1.jpg][/IMG]

2.Used SVT cat, the 2 02 sensors I got with them were good all I did was make 2 extentions from just yard ones.

Before
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130310-00181_zps383f701e.jpg][/IMG]

After
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00206_zpsb85e54f5.jpg][/IMG]

3.Used Svt flex, i just sanded it and sprayed it with black vht
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00207_zps7d3bc8c6.jpg][/IMG]

4. 2 02 extention wires, 2 02 sensors for the cat
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00208_zps8de715d1.jpg][/IMG]

5.Used egr tree with valve from junk yard 10$
[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00209_zps78df5863.jpg][/IMG]

6.New gaskets for head to header, header to cat, cat to flex, flex to straight
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7.New nuts and bolts
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8.New SVT[IMG][Image: IMG-20130405-00219_zps46277d6f.jpg][/IMG] oil dipstick and tube

First off here is what the engine bay looked like
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So i started from with the bolts from the straight pipe to flex, then I could not undo the bolts from the flex to cat it was nice and rusted together so i undid the hanger bolts then the cat to header bolts and then the header bolts.
Here is when i ran into my first problem there bolt from the egr tube that connects to the bun was rusted on there and would not wanto move at all. I went at it with a torch and made it glowing red and still no movement. So i said screw it and i just cut the pipe since I already had one.

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Inside of old cat 142km not to bad
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Here is with it lightly fitted on, its just sitting on the studs ATM
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Ps line way too close for it to run safe.
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will get back to bending it later.
Here what it looked like from under.
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Attached the SVT cat to header.
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And then here is where I encountered my other problem[?|]
This was me not paying attention to what I was doing. First off the SVT flex will not line up properly without having the holes slotted on it. Well i was dumd and slotted the wrong side so when i was trying to put it on it did not want too line up I realized soon after and was like well that was a waste of time. So started drilling the right side of the flex which is the curved part not the straight side!! I ended up only needing to slot one hole to make it line up.
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An hour later. Finally fitted the flex on
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Fitted the rear 02 extension on
[Image: IMG-20130511-00302_zps67d08c8f.jpg]
Then front
[Image: IMG-20130511-00303_zps23920ae9.jpg]

So everything is on except the egr tube i had to bend it slightly to be able to make it fit but that was pretty easy thanks to the torch.
Got it fitted on there nice.
[Image: IMG-20130512-00313_zpsd142bc75.jpg]

I also bend the ps line with a heat gun i did not want too take the chance with the torch since there was a coolant tube next too it. I only bend it out of the way of the header towards the front of the car so it is not touching the header but its touching the coolant tube witch i think should be okay.
did not take anypics of this but here is what it looks like after.
[Image: IMG-20130512-00312_zpsd51f7e01.jpg]

And that's, when i started up the car I got 3 codes thrown at me if anyone knows if this is normal or what I should do with these codes please let me know. P0113,P0102,P0340

Here is also 2 videos the first one is with the everything. The second is with the SVT swap with zx3 magnaflow exhaust with no resonator. For a while I was running just a zx3 magnaflow with stock header,cat,flex forget to take video before but I find it sounds smoother after the swap since the piping is closer to the same size let me know which you like better.

Thanks for reading everyone, i hope this will help anyone that is looking to do an SVT swap on there Zetec.

http://i1309.photobucket.com/albums/s626...14ca16.mp4

http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/homele...e.mp4.html
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My SVT swap - zx3wantobesvt - 05-14-2013, 03:14 PM
RE: My SVT swap - drunkinmonkey - 05-14-2013, 10:17 PM
RE: My SVT swap - zx3wantobesvt - 05-14-2013, 10:25 PM
RE: My SVT swap - drunkinmonkey - 05-14-2013, 10:30 PM
RE: My SVT swap - zx3wantobesvt - 05-14-2013, 10:55 PM
RE: My SVT swap - drunkinmonkey - 05-15-2013, 06:46 AM
RE: My SVT swap - zx3wantobesvt - 05-15-2013, 01:23 PM
RE: My SVT swap - drunkinmonkey - 05-15-2013, 10:09 PM
RE: My SVT swap - zx3wantobesvt - 05-16-2013, 12:16 AM

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