NJSPEEDER
10-20-2005, 06:36 PM
well, it has now been 7 days since my old motor popped and i still can't drive the car.
the good thing is that it is down to one item jsut for piece of mind, a water temp sending unit so i can see if she gets hot.
god knows that i and the people who have helped me have done enough engine swaps in our lives. i have swap engines in as little as 5 hours and once participated in a trans swap that took less than 45mins on the grass pits at cecil county.
had to man handle teh engine out and the new one in because the reach my picker is not as long as the front end of a second gen. couldn't go over teh side because of the my driveway situation.
my swap went nothing like any of those events. it took 3 of us 2.5hours just to get the damn trans to agree to line up.
then i drop the old starter on only to realize when i tried to test fire that the new motor has a smaller diameter flywheel leaving the starter from the old motor spinning with 1/2 inch of free space. gggrrrrrr
once the trans was lined up and everything else was attached i fire the engine only to find out that my wonderful parts store fan switch crapped out. as of now my fan is ghetto wired to turn on when i start teh car. good enough for the moment, that will get fixed as soon as i have time.
in between i had every possible version of a stuck bolt and usually in the hardest to reach places and always after it was dark and i was trying to work with just a shop light and a flashlight.
i would like to thank pamperedz and tru2chevy for lending a hand. having people to chat with while everything was doing poorly definately made it less stressful and allowed me to work while others did quick part/supply runs.
justin got some video of the motor when we were first firing it on the open pipes. that is enough to make any small block sound mean :)
once we got it rolling and warmed up a little the idle settled right in at 700rpm where it was supposed to be. lots of tunign left to do on her, but it should be a 12 second combo once i get it tuned in.
later
tim
the good thing is that it is down to one item jsut for piece of mind, a water temp sending unit so i can see if she gets hot.
god knows that i and the people who have helped me have done enough engine swaps in our lives. i have swap engines in as little as 5 hours and once participated in a trans swap that took less than 45mins on the grass pits at cecil county.
had to man handle teh engine out and the new one in because the reach my picker is not as long as the front end of a second gen. couldn't go over teh side because of the my driveway situation.
my swap went nothing like any of those events. it took 3 of us 2.5hours just to get the damn trans to agree to line up.
then i drop the old starter on only to realize when i tried to test fire that the new motor has a smaller diameter flywheel leaving the starter from the old motor spinning with 1/2 inch of free space. gggrrrrrr
once the trans was lined up and everything else was attached i fire the engine only to find out that my wonderful parts store fan switch crapped out. as of now my fan is ghetto wired to turn on when i start teh car. good enough for the moment, that will get fixed as soon as i have time.
in between i had every possible version of a stuck bolt and usually in the hardest to reach places and always after it was dark and i was trying to work with just a shop light and a flashlight.
i would like to thank pamperedz and tru2chevy for lending a hand. having people to chat with while everything was doing poorly definately made it less stressful and allowed me to work while others did quick part/supply runs.
justin got some video of the motor when we were first firing it on the open pipes. that is enough to make any small block sound mean :)
once we got it rolling and warmed up a little the idle settled right in at 700rpm where it was supposed to be. lots of tunign left to do on her, but it should be a 12 second combo once i get it tuned in.
later
tim