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Old 11-13-05, 07:40 PM
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Talking 12a in a Corolla trunk!

I didn't have a truck so I put the 12a in my moms corolla and drove up to Rotaryshack to exchange it for a working engine. It actually drove pretty good the whole way. Except for when I hit the brakes kind of hardand the engine slid and hit the backseat. here some pics:
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Wimp!

You put a clean engine, on cardboard in your mom's car. Where's the fun in that?

I'll 'one-up' you with a dirty tranny in a clean Chevette (nearly new at the time). Left a mess in there but it all came out with carpet cleaner. I had to clean it because the car was mine...

Anyone else can one-up mine if they used someone else's car!
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yeah, they are pretty small!

just took the engine from my parts car in NH, and it looks tiny in the back of a truck
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well we managed to fit 2 12a's in a gen1 rx7
plus a 13b under the bonnet of course
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How did you horse it in and out? 2 guys? Cherry picker? Boards?
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arm curl ??? !!!
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I used a cherry picker to put it in. When I showed up there, Robert, Pat(my brother), and I lifted it out. Blankets were on the bumper to prevent scraping it. Then we lifted the new one the same way and put it in.
I'll post some pics of the installed engine which is btw a stockport in a couple hours. It sure is nice not having to ride my bike to school
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Rear-end

I put a complete GSL-SE rear-end into my Passat sedan
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I put a complete GSL-SE rear-end into my Passat sedan
With the wheels attached?

That would be fun to have rolling around back there in traffic!
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My 12a pp short block rode from my buddy's house to mine sitting in my preludes passenger seat. It wasn't easy loading and unloading but I've done worse. Just had to muscle up and strain a little.
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Originally Posted by Dom
Wimp!

You put a clean engine, on cardboard in your mom's car. Where's the fun in that?

I'll 'one-up' you with a dirty tranny in a clean Chevette (nearly new at the time). Left a mess in there but it all came out with carpet cleaner. I had to clean it because the car was mine...

Anyone else can one-up mine if they used someone else's car!

What about the time I put a new engine on a pallet in a guy's truck and scratched the bed with the pallet. He flipped out and said he was gonna sue me. I threatened to kick his *** for stupidity and that I told him what I was doing. Argument stopped there.

Back on topic, I have a 91 Geo Prizm, so that would be like me putting a 12A in there. Same car besides emblems....oh, and ECU. Ask me how I know.
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I put a 13B longblock in the trunk of my Miata and drove for ~45 minutes. Ran pretty damn good, stopped a little better, too.
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i have had a 13b longblock in the backseat of my 79 rx-7 for about a year now.. just now took the thing out to rebuild her.
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My buddy brought a 12a, Trans, oil cooler, Rad and some interor parts from Ohio to NC in his 7 with him and his girlfriend in the car, He said it road a bit low.


I stuffed a Full rear axle without wheels into the back seat of an 80's accord last month.
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I put a Saturn Sl2 engine in the passenger seat of my Tercell, of course I put some cardboard down first.
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Originally Posted by Dom
Wimp!

You put a clean engine, on cardboard in your mom's car. Where's the fun in that?

I'll 'one-up' you with a dirty tranny in a clean Chevette (nearly new at the time). Left a mess in there but it all came out with carpet cleaner. I had to clean it because the car was mine...

Anyone else can one-up mine if they used someone else's car!
I'll try to find pictures of last winter when I went to Toronto to pick up the 12a in my DAD's sunfire. The owner of the engine forgot to mention that it still had a full pan of dirty oil and when we flipped it on it's side to put it in, dirty oil went EVERYWHERE!. The spare tire well of the sunfire had dirty oil in it and it took me hours to get it all presentable before my dad got home.

fun though.

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Someone drove around town here with a Fiero in the bed of their F350 for the longest time...
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if you scoot the passenger seet forward, you can fit a full size engine hoist in a 79 RX7. I've done it... twice.
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