My “ST” Build + Spare Development Corsair 2.3L I4 Turbo Engine

[Ivang79]

If you don't post times when done, the whole thing is for naught. Remember nobody wakes up crazy, you just drift downward into it. Slowly steadily until there is no return BTE are voices in your head telling you to do this?

You think I do all this to cruise Cars and Coffee?

It’s a good thing I live in Mexico but unfortunately the real tracks are once or twice a year.
But you can be sure I’ll be searching for an 11 sec slip when shes all dialed in.

 

[Eagle11]

Yup, definitely lost your mind LOL. Buy inexpensive truck, then make it more expensive than the expensive ones. Wow !!

Its the American way

 

[Scott Asheville]

You guys who have the skills and the inclination and the money to heavily tune and modify your Mavericks totally rock. I'd love to see some short videos of your runs and the trucks in motion.

 

[Rangemack]

I had a 2018 Focus ST, and damn do I miss that car. I'm hoping the Maverick is almost as fun. You may want to order some RS badges though if you use that 2.3L Might as well repaint the truck in the RS nitrous blue while you're at it.

 

[fishinmagician]

Hell yes

 

[trippytbta]

Does this motor* bolt right in?

 

[MavDave]

Does this motor* bolt right in?

Bolting in will probably the easiest part of this swap. The electronics will be the struggle, or so I assume.

 

[Ivang79]

As badly as I want to drop this in, first order of business is business .

Ranger turbo and downpipe and intercooler pipes will be easy to figure out now. Same with the turbo lines.
I don’t see the install being an issue. Everything looks like a straight swap.

Fun fact, the Corsair motor has a nifty belt tensioner cover that we don’t get.

 

[colinl]

Bolting in will probably the easiest part of this swap. The electronics will be the struggle, or so I assume.

I would think so as well. I was reading what little technical details a tuning shop shared with their '21 Bronco coyote swap and it sounded pretty bad. Of course, that engine doesn't just bolt in, and this one does but my concerns would be getting the Maverick ECM to run this engine.

If a tuned stock ECM can't make this engine run well & reliably, things get real interesting when you try to incorporate the Corsair's ECM because it wants to talk to a Corsair BCM, PDU (center differential) and so on. Drive modes probably going to be an issue.

Fallback plan could be using a 2.3 shortblock with everything else Maverick. I think it could be off the road a long time once this gets underway.

 

[MavDave]

I would think so as well. I was reading what little technical details a tuning shop shared with their '21 Bronco coyote swap and it sounded pretty bad. Of course, that engine doesn't just bolt in, and this one does but my concerns would be getting the Maverick ECM to run this engine.

If a tuned stock ECM can't make this engine run well & reliably, things get real interesting when you try to incorporate the Corsair's ECM because it wants to talk to a Corsair BCM, PDU (center differential) and so on. Drive modes probably going to be an issue.

Fallback plan could be using a 2.3 shortblock with everything else Maverick. I think it could be off the road a long time once this gets underway.

And as we all know, no risk no reward

 

[Dudley]

Pickup version of this!

 

[rivermaverick]

Mount the 2.3 in the bed with a V-drive!!! Electronic throttle wizardry should keep things happy. First Maverick over 500hp 500tq.

Just thinking the same thing, I've built a couple of twin engine cars - love the heterodyne effect when the engines sync.

 

[Maverickman74]

Just thinking the same thing, I've built a couple of twin engine cars - love the heterodyne effect when the engines sync.

I grew up on stories from my dad and his cousin wrapping chains around 440 flywheels at the tractor pulls, that is before they switched to Allison V12s.

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