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Glad to hear there's still plenty to help with, diff oil I can certainly do. I can smell that old diff oil already. If it is the Me221 fair enough about not wanting to buy another ECU after shelling out for it and getting it set up. Sounds like you've got a good plan together without going down the vvt route.
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No problem, plenty of things to still get involved with, fun things like aligning the PPF and changing diff oil, if you want to get involved....!
VVT would have defeated the straight swap, I could go to VVT in the future but my car would need re-wiring and my ECU actually isn't truly "standalone", although it can do everything a standalone can do, it's connectors are MX5 and mark specific. The ECU has already been a big outlay so I'd rather not mess around with that again.
I'd probably make more power just putting a stock VVT engine in, but then I'd have no ITB fun. The blocks are all the same, but it's the heads that change, so MK2.5 non VVT head is the best head for the engine build.