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21 hours ago, Roland@pcmtec said:

If you use a mk1 fg pcm nothing will work and highly recommend you don't do this.

Mk1 and mk2 are very different in how they work. You can't use a mk1 fg pcm and a fg2/fgx territory cluster as they won't talk and it will be permanently immobilised. 

You have me curious now as it was my understanding all fg turbo ECU/PCM's were the same hardware and you could flash them to be used in a mk2 or fgx from mk1. Just having to load the right software/tear tag data to suit.

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41 minutes ago, Whiteford said:

This can be done

Do you have any insight in terms of what’s required if abs modules also need changing or if an fg 26 turbo box tcm can simply be matched up with an fgx na ecu?

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Hey Bill,

sent you a PM but for anyone playing at home,

This is my tear tag.

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Hey guys,

 

this is the tear tag from an fgx ute that I’ve checked on ford etis and shows 6hp26.

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12 minutes ago, Bill said:

If you can get a tear tag from one that's got the 6HP26, that would be good. I've got a mate wanting to swap his 21 to a 26 because it's failing again

I have asked an fgx ute owner if they can possibly send me a tear tag. Not 100% if 6hp26 but we will see.

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54 minutes ago, Bill said:

Thanks for that. Sometimes, the information on ETIS isn't 100% correct but I hope it is.

I'll have to have a look at FGX ute Tear Tags when I spot one.

Yeah I hope so too, doesn’t really get me too much closer yet to the 21 to 26 swap plan yet though.

I checked a few more vins and interestingly seems most lpg got 21 and the 6hp26’s I found were mostly 2014-15 models and found a few 2016 ute models all pretty much 6hp21.

as you said etis might be incorrect but perhaps not at the same time.

These are the other vins I checked also.

im going to see if I can find someone with an fgx na ute who can provide me a tear tag if it helps you any further also.

 

Some of the other vins I checked,

6FPAAAJGCMFL8400
6FPAAAJGCMFS87290

6FPAAAJGCMGB95472

6FPAAAJGCMET61325

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2 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:

It's news to me. Makes sense though as they have a higher towing capacity. 

We don't have the cal from this Ute and it's not available on the ford dealer site so you'd need to source the file yourself. Ford stopped uploading cals around 2015 so the only place you can get them is via s read from someones car. 

Either way sounds like a headache still as the ABS module will likely be different. 

Honestly go for gold just be willing to pull it all out again if it doesn't work. 

Yeah that is the trouble, my tuner/mechanic also isn’t super confident either. I just don’t really want to spend money replacing/fixing this 6hp21 just for a few months until full conversion.

unfortunately I don’t have access to the ute but it was just from some further research I did looking into the fgx utes after speaking to Brett in qld. A vin I found on Google confirmed the commercial utes or atleast some got the 6hp26 while also being Na. 

 

 

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On 6/24/2021 at 8:25 PM, Roland@pcmtec said:

It is highly unlikely to be successful due to the fact ford never made such a vehicle. We highly recommend sticking to combinations that were made and sold by Ford. 

You may find a way to make it work but most likely you'll have a car with no ABS that is stuck in 3rd gear limp mode. 

Either find a full donor vehicle including BCM, cluster, ipc, abs, pcm and all looms or look at simply selling the vehicle and finding a turbo. It'll save you a lot of time and money. 

Hi Roland,

Thanks for your fast reply,

what about the FGX utes that came out with a 6hp26 while being NA? I was speaking to someone in qld via Facebook who mentioned it should be doable merging the vid section on the tcm and ecu. I’m also half wondering if there were any police pack fgx na cars similar to fg na that got the lsd because perhaps they also got the 6hp26 and lsd as part of the heavy duty police package?

just trying to limit how many times I buy a gearbox as it will be getting a full turbo conversion later this year so if I can make a 6hp26 work now it saves me later.

 

Thanks

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Has anyone had success swapping out and programming a 6hp26 turbo box into an fgx which had a 6hp21 from factory being an na?

it will be getting a full turbo driveline eventually but just looking to replace the 6hp21 as mine is rooted.

 

Thanks.