Me and my freind decided to trade straight up, my del sol shell, great paint, almost no rust, but salvage title and a bent driverside frame rail for his kinda rusted flat black eg hatch (si, so it has rear brakes and such). I would get to keep all my suspension parts, my seats, engine, wheels, and so on.
Thursday we started (kinda late, like 4ish). By the end of the day, both cars had the engine pulled, stero stuff swapped and seats swapped.
Friday, I was able to scrub my engine bay out, and by the end of the day both engines were dropped in and bolted up. I had my engine completely ready except for raditor, wireing, fluids and a few other little things. My freind was a little behind since he had to put all his turbo stuff on. By the end of the day, we had one hang up. We used a diffrent tool then normal to put the ball joints. This tool ended up mushrooming both lower ball joints on both cars.
Saturday, I had to work at 2 so I only worked until 1, plus I didn't start until kinda late, so all I was able to do was wireing, and soem fluids. I helped my freind out to get his engien to about the same level where I was at. We decided to solve the problem with the ball joints by cutting the ball joint right above the mushroomed part and thread a nut on. I had to work, but my freind wanted to finish up. While I was at work, I called in at 7 and they were just finishing up. My teins were on, however, they didn't know how to put the beaks kit on the ITR rear sway, so they left that alone. The exhaust did not fit, so he left that to me also. So when I got home, I had to clean up my wiring, put my sway on, put my radiator in, and exhaust.
Sunday. I woke up late, agian had to work at 2, so I wasn't planning on working too much. In my sol, I had an Integra radiator, however, it was slightly bent and I didn't feel like messing with the brakets, so I decided to put my old del sol radiator in there (year or so in storage) I put it in and start filling. I was almost done filling the radiator when I notice a small leak near the top of the radiator. There goes that plan. So after getting basicly nothing done, I leave to work. When I got back, pistons were on so I decided to fuck working.
Today I decided to use my teg radiator. I carefully bent the radiator back to place. Last time, I just repositioned my stock radiator brackets and welded them into place. Since I don't have a welder, I decided to use a diffrent method. This time I used an aluminum strip and secured it to the bottom of the raditor core sport liek they do in the Hybridgarage's how to. After breaking a die grinder and 2 trips to home depot, it finally got in. It fits great and actually looks like it was designed to fit that way. With the del sol, It was alot taller then the radiator core support, this one is just as high. Next, I cleaned up all my wireing, taped everything up, and put the carpet back in place. I went to see what exactly was the problem with the exhaust (my del sol exhuast) and found that the EG's is slightly longe, and 2 hangers are in a slightly diffrent location. I put atleast my cat on so I could start it up, check for codes and bleed the coolant. Starts up first try, no CELs. Yea, twice with that engine lol.
Finally, I had to put my rear sway on. I decided to drop the LCA's and work that way. On my del sol, I kinda messed up when installing it basicly because the kit is designed wrong. On the EG and DC subframe, the lip on the subframe gets in the way to mount the kit right.
The non slanted peice needs to be cut just like the inside peice. The beaks kit just doesn't fit right with the stock design. (I will post pictures tommrow of how I modded it to fit right.)
So now I am all finished minus the exhaust. I am thiking taht I am might just order a RSR exhasut, however, since I am still runing the GSR manifold, I would still have to take it to a muffler shop to fill in the gap. What I might try and do is find a non GSR lower portion of the exhaust manifold to make up the distance
Tommrow I will try and get some pics. During the swap, I only took the pics of both cars with no engines in them, with them siting on palets in front. Looked pretty cool.
Well, it turned out to be 5 days but I didn't really didn't work much on the weekend, so I didn't count them
Thursday we started (kinda late, like 4ish). By the end of the day, both cars had the engine pulled, stero stuff swapped and seats swapped.
Friday, I was able to scrub my engine bay out, and by the end of the day both engines were dropped in and bolted up. I had my engine completely ready except for raditor, wireing, fluids and a few other little things. My freind was a little behind since he had to put all his turbo stuff on. By the end of the day, we had one hang up. We used a diffrent tool then normal to put the ball joints. This tool ended up mushrooming both lower ball joints on both cars.
Saturday, I had to work at 2 so I only worked until 1, plus I didn't start until kinda late, so all I was able to do was wireing, and soem fluids. I helped my freind out to get his engien to about the same level where I was at. We decided to solve the problem with the ball joints by cutting the ball joint right above the mushroomed part and thread a nut on. I had to work, but my freind wanted to finish up. While I was at work, I called in at 7 and they were just finishing up. My teins were on, however, they didn't know how to put the beaks kit on the ITR rear sway, so they left that alone. The exhaust did not fit, so he left that to me also. So when I got home, I had to clean up my wiring, put my sway on, put my radiator in, and exhaust.
Sunday. I woke up late, agian had to work at 2, so I wasn't planning on working too much. In my sol, I had an Integra radiator, however, it was slightly bent and I didn't feel like messing with the brakets, so I decided to put my old del sol radiator in there (year or so in storage) I put it in and start filling. I was almost done filling the radiator when I notice a small leak near the top of the radiator. There goes that plan. So after getting basicly nothing done, I leave to work. When I got back, pistons were on so I decided to fuck working.
Today I decided to use my teg radiator. I carefully bent the radiator back to place. Last time, I just repositioned my stock radiator brackets and welded them into place. Since I don't have a welder, I decided to use a diffrent method. This time I used an aluminum strip and secured it to the bottom of the raditor core sport liek they do in the Hybridgarage's how to. After breaking a die grinder and 2 trips to home depot, it finally got in. It fits great and actually looks like it was designed to fit that way. With the del sol, It was alot taller then the radiator core support, this one is just as high. Next, I cleaned up all my wireing, taped everything up, and put the carpet back in place. I went to see what exactly was the problem with the exhaust (my del sol exhuast) and found that the EG's is slightly longe, and 2 hangers are in a slightly diffrent location. I put atleast my cat on so I could start it up, check for codes and bleed the coolant. Starts up first try, no CELs. Yea, twice with that engine lol.
Finally, I had to put my rear sway on. I decided to drop the LCA's and work that way. On my del sol, I kinda messed up when installing it basicly because the kit is designed wrong. On the EG and DC subframe, the lip on the subframe gets in the way to mount the kit right.
The non slanted peice needs to be cut just like the inside peice. The beaks kit just doesn't fit right with the stock design. (I will post pictures tommrow of how I modded it to fit right.)
So now I am all finished minus the exhaust. I am thiking taht I am might just order a RSR exhasut, however, since I am still runing the GSR manifold, I would still have to take it to a muffler shop to fill in the gap. What I might try and do is find a non GSR lower portion of the exhaust manifold to make up the distance
Tommrow I will try and get some pics. During the swap, I only took the pics of both cars with no engines in them, with them siting on palets in front. Looked pretty cool.
Well, it turned out to be 5 days but I didn't really didn't work much on the weekend, so I didn't count them
