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Yes, I can tell you first hand that the 2.5 motor out of a "late year" production car is the initial offering into the Phase II motors. My buddy has one factory installed into his August built '99 LGT (which caught me off guard when I worked on it). Anything built from May of '99 and back...

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swapping a 2.2 is possible,but uncommon. 2 choices are to 1:use the 2.2 harness and ecu or 2:swap cylinder heads and just use the 2.2 block-----of course you'd be loosing a lot of compression(good if you wanna turbo it,but bad for n/a). depending on your states emission laws, choice 1 may not be an...

It was recommended that I check out this board for answers to my questions regarding a potential purchase. I am looking into a 99 SUS with a bad motor. I was wondering if it was possible to swap in a 2.2 (NA) or if there were any less expensive alternatives than 99 2.5Liter motor replacement. Thanks...