Guys and Gals,

Tomorrow is the day I start my engine swap and turbo installation, it looks like I'm in this alone, so I'm giving myself 7 days to do this. I'm alittle nervous as I have never done a swap of any sort before so it should be interesting. Don't mind me if I come on here to blow off some steam because I'm sure I will. I have all the air tools I need and a hoist so I think it should be ok(knock on wood). I'll keep everyone up to date on how it is going. Wish me luck!

-T

edit: I do have a FSM so that should help!

nice! good luck! if you need any help on the swap let me know. ive done a de to de before so i might be able to help out a little.

Good luck man. I remember being in your shoes a couple of summers ago. I didn't have air tools though. Would have been nice. Hope the swap will be a good experience for you like it was for me.

good luck man. 7 days should be plenty of time.

im on day two with the engine still in the car! lol i have learned my lesson! remove the trany with the motor... me like a dumbbb ass i tried to remove the engine while keeping the tranny in the car! big mistake its almost impossible.. some people say its easy but i think there lying lol.

Good luck man! I can't wait till I get my ride back. Definitely post pics and installation stuff when you can. :)

got the enggine out!! woo hoo

I'm about an hour or so from having my engine out, but i'm also pressing in mounts and replacing lot of switches and stuff, I also spent half a day trying to to get the fill/drain plug off the tranny..what a PITA..the mounts are going great, all I gotta say is air hammer eliminates the need to burn out the rubber, 5 minutes everything is out. saturday I have hoist and hopefully I'll be up on sunday.

btw: I ordered my high port de from soko on monday and it was at the terminal the next day, not to mention this engine looks nice!

yea where do you fill up the tranny at? where is this plug you speak of?

about the drain plug... you use a 1/2 breaker bar with no socket on it... also cut up a pepsi can and stick some slivers in there and that might help... also a nice cheater bar on that breaker bar will help too

its not too bad :) , and bolting on the turbo stuff is pretty easy, adn you already got the ic piping made :D

btw, u get downpipe and stuff yet?

its not too bad :) , and bolting on the turbo stuff is pretty easy, adn you already got the ic piping made :D

btw, u get downpipe and stuff yet?

yea I got the dp BUT i can't put the turbo on yet because mr robbers stole jgy's tools to make the oil line kit i bought so......... i'm going to be running jwt comp w/o turbo, yay!