Andrew's engine swap (pics)

4th gen SI. (L3)

Aight so Monday morning, I have no oil pressure. Idea! Lets pull the motor.

Get my lights setup (working on delivering 220/110 to my shop...)


About an hour and a few beers later you end up with something like this:


The fender is off so I can re-route my wiretuck... Informative Wire-Tucking Side-note: If I would have routed them like this from the beginning, there is no need to extend any wires! My stuff is too long now. The Passenger side, however, might need to be extended a little bit, but I think you can get away w/o cutting anything. Just De-pin all of the connectors and slip them through the body and reconnect them.

Needs cleaning/paint...

Stripped and repainted the trans, this time I just did two or three very light (hopefully BONDING) coats of "filler primer". I'll just leave it like that.

Working on the wiring... And degreasing like mad. I'll hit it with some paint to match the trans.

Ugly pic, but all the wiring is off the B. just tucked to the side. I've gotta pull that harness out and make room for the "new" one. I'm going to re-vamp this harness while the B is out. More than likely with some nice sleeving like ChaseBays/Rywire and them use.


Anyway. Theres the most recent pics!
Got a lot of work ahead of me...
-Andrew

Nice work as always, Andrew. I have faith that you'll get everything done in a few days and all will be well.

You gonna need any help? Meggie is tryin to get me to go to Alabama and, frankly, I don't want to

I'd much rather continue my spelunking as a mechanic.

Yeah bring it on. When is she going? this weekend?

eBay Motors: NOS #16080 Super Powershot Nitrous FUEL Solenoid, NICE (item 380003693891 end time Mar-16-08 16:45:00 PDT)

There's your fuel solenoid you need.

**Edit** Giggity giggity goo!

mac_24_seven said:

eBay Motors: NOS #16080 Super Powershot Nitrous FUEL Solenoid, NICE (item 380003693891 end time Mar-16-08 16:45:00 PDT)

There's your fuel solenoid you need.

**Edit** Giggity giggity goo!

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That's a thing of beauty. It almost brings a tear to my eye. *sniff*

GAH! everything I drive this week is breaking down.
Saturday- Green minivan trans has issue.
Monday- CRX oil pump goes out.
Friday- Brand new 2007 E-350 van has a crazy issue with the Anti-skid system, so I cant drive it to school.

Boo.

Andrew said:

GAH! everything I drive this week is breaking down.
Saturday- Green minivan trans has issue.
Monday- CRX oil pump goes out.
Friday- Brand new 2007 E-350 van has a crazy issue with the Anti-skid system, so I cant drive it to school.

Boo.

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If I were into witchcraft, I would cast a good luck spell on you now. That's kind of weird and freaky though, so I wish you the best of luck. After everything you have overcome and accomplished during your build, I know that you will definitely grab this bull by the horns, sling it around and take care of it.

Made some progress yesterday...
Got the Harness off and hung up

And the IM off:

And took the shift linkage and exhaust off, and some more good stuff too.
It's ready to go. The only thing holding it in is the axles and engine mounts


Goal is to get the engine out tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) and start on Engine Bay prep. (cleaning sanding painting, etc)
-Andrew

How's everything else going, Andrew?

^ Everything is going good man. I'm going to try and get the motor out tomorrow afternoon.
I'll be getting off work around 4:30 today but idk how much I'll be able to get done. We'll see.

That's good to hear. I just spent more than half of the day at my mechanics house. It was supposed to be a quick installation of my chipped P28, but the damn thing wouldn't rev beyond 4,000 at all. Fortunately I had read about this problem so I didn't freak out. I can't remember where though, so I'll have to find it today. Perhaps the ECU was that of an automatic instead of stick. Either way, good luck today.

Andrew..Do you have any of tese AN fittings:
4AN x 1/8 npt


1/8 x 4AN swivel


?

Pretty much all I need to run my zex kit with purge

I can get the 4ax1/8 npt from school Monday.
You'll have to buy the swivel . AN PLUMBING.COM Earls performance products Hose ends Hose,Adapter fittings has great prices

Heres something I did at school last week. I brought along some GSR cams and cleaned 'em up.
Looking pretty rough to start with...

Gave 'em a good scotch-brite to knock all of the surface rust off...

Threw them in the parts wash tank

looking pretty good!

then packaged them up. =]



More to come later

You're cooler than the other side of the pillow, Andrew. Nice work on the cams.

i hope you coated them in oil..

yeah they're straight.

On a side note, heres a plane we started up the other day:
It's a T34 military trainer. with a PT6 engine.






Heres a video

Gay

We need a dumb friend who doesn't care about their vehicle to put the nawzz on to play with...