GTIR Swap has begun!

gatr13 · 03-30-2006, 09:17 PM

Here we go guy's, It's Finally happening! The wait is now over.

The first objective was to change out the fuel pump. That took all of about an hour. While I was in there (the fuel tank) I saw something disturbing. The power plug that connects to the pump is just exposed, not even sealed. I thought to myself, Wow this thing is submerged in 13gal of fuel.

I guess the Nissan engineers know what they are doing, I haven't heard of one blowing up yet, right!

The next thing I did was remove the hood and started disconnecting the plugs from the motor. Then I removed the battery, air box, lower brace, exhaust, etc. Mind you I'm doing all this by myself. My buds won't be able to help until the weekend, atleast I hope they can help! My goal for the rest of this evening is to remove the axles and see if I can drop this biotch out of the car, wish me luck!

Here are a few pics with more to follow:

Here she is in the garage:

The old motor about to be removed:

The new beauty awaiting her turn:

Here is the plug I bought for the unused bov return on the intake:

Here it is installed, perfect fit:

Old motor ready to come out:

Well, my break is over and it's time to get back to it.

Stay tuned for more!

gatr13 · 03-30-2006, 09:18 PM

Hey, WTF! None of the pics are working?

t bags · 03-30-2006, 09:19 PM

nice x's

daveracer · 03-30-2006, 09:19 PM

No sir.

gatr13 · 03-30-2006, 09:24 PM

The gallery isn't even working? Whats up with that? Hopefully its fixed soon.

importuner7 · 03-30-2006, 09:40 PM

wow damn dude that gtir looks sick!!! your car is clean and ill! finish that up!

P11-144 · 03-30-2006, 10:27 PM

Beautiful motor ! Good luck with the install !

RedDragun · 03-30-2006, 11:01 PM

Very nice! Can't wait to see the end result!

OneSlow1.6 · 03-30-2006, 11:03 PM

dropping them out the bottom is so much harder than using a cherrrypicker

looks great ***..i did mine by myself too...dont give up haha

lilzaneboy69 · 03-30-2006, 11:07 PM

Finally man your getting it in. Watch that tranny you dont wanna be like me

! Gti-R + Blown tranny =

Of course im jewish so itll be up in running in no time

! jk

Adam

boostenb13 · 03-30-2006, 11:23 PM

Lookin clean, car and motor. Good luck with the remainder of the swap...

chipey23 · 03-30-2006, 11:41 PM

Everything is so nice and carefully detailed. It almost looks to good to get dirty. Keep us updated on the outcome.

gatr13 · 03-31-2006, 02:06 AM

Well she's out! Just finished raising the car back up to remove the old motor. The only problem I had was with the drivers side axle, it didn't want to fully come out of the tranny. I pulled on it and it would slide half way out and then stop. I was kinda stumped as of why it wouldn't come out all the way. So I left it in the tranny and will deal with it tomorrow. Really tired now, so I think it's time for bed. Tomorrow I'll be running some wiring, re-wire for the Z32 maf, and hopefully have the GTIR sitting in it's new home by tomorrow night.

Thanks for the compliments guy's!

A couple more pics and I'm off to dream land!

coryb13ser · 03-31-2006, 02:09 AM

looks like you need some tires up front

clean motor, hope to see pics of that thing in by the time i get back on here. good luck

daveracer · 03-31-2006, 06:30 AM

It wouldn't come out all the way because there's a ring on the axle. You need to pry it out just the right way.

ucantbeSERious · 03-31-2006, 07:04 AM

maybe a bigger floor jack would help!! lol j/k ...looks good

dxpxe · 03-31-2006, 08:22 AM

dont need to take the axel out so unless the boot is ripped and its already clunking then dont bother and just leave it in. Ive never takin mine out its just one extra step that i skip

200sx Se · 03-31-2006, 09:12 AM

DAMN..........thats at that comes ta mind mayne! clean motor and very nice car bruh....just like u i cant wait to see the final pics when u get done. ill soon start a thread on my 1.6T project, i cant wait for that cause its been 3-4 months now with me just getting parts and im almost ***. my car iss a clean lookin sleeper **** like ***...but newayz keep up *** good work bruh

coalitionSE-L · 03-31-2006, 09:47 AM

Awesome Bob! Glad to see that you were able to get the motor out. Looking forward to getting over there on Saturday to give you a hand.

blackb13se-r · 03-31-2006, 09:53 AM

great job!