Interchangeable engine

[Scooby04]

I'm looking into buying a spare engine for my sonic hatch, but would like to know if the sonic 2016+ engine is a direct swap? (I have a 2013 sonic)

 

[ScarabEpic22]

All Sonic's use the same generation of Gen I 1.4T (port injected) engine, so any Sonic 1.4T from 12-20 will work. The Cruze used the same Gen I 1.4T (port injected) engine until 2016 when the Cruze went to the Gen II 1.4T (direct injected). (The 16 Cruze Limited is a carryover with the Gen I 1.4T). The Gen I and Gen II 1.4T engines are not interchangeable. If you wanted to go down that path, you're looking at trying to integrate a new ECM/TCM, wiring, body integration, etc.

 

[Scooby04]

All Sonic's use the same generation of Gen I 1.4T (port injected) engine, so any Sonic 1.4T from 12-20 will work. The Cruze used the same Gen I 1.4T (port injected) engine until 2016 when the Cruze went to the Gen II 1.4T (direct injected). (The 16 Cruze Limited is a carryover with the Gen I 1.4T). The Gen I and Gen II 1.4T engines are not interchangeable. If you wanted to go down that path, you're looking at trying to integrate a new ECM/TCM, wiring, body integration, etc.

I was aware of the sonic engines being the same, but everytime I looked it up at car-part or even ebay it says it doesn't fit so I wanted to make sure it will work before I purchase a 2016+ engine. Thank you!

 

[ShyScarf]

In theory, how much mod would be neccessary to pop in a DI engine (preferably something asian for reliability), but also keep the port injector rack and tune to compensate the air? Also would love to make it a V6 or at least more litre in the process but