I bought this car KNOWING it was going to need a rebuild.

After modding it alittle, she finaly just would not start because of coolant entering the rotor housings.

When I unbolted part of the exhaust, coolant streamed out.

Here are some pics of the motor getting pulled. I will update this thread as I go along, and I'll post pics of everything.


Engine without IC



Engine getting close to being pulled.



Me working on the engine



Engine finaly outta the car, looks naked.



Me on the left, and one of my best friends who is always a huge help on the right, sadly my woman took a pic of him and not his face.



Motor out of the car ready for me to start to rip everything off.

 

nice...take it you havent torn down the engine yet then?

 

wow, there's an FD in bellingham!? hehe. didn't know anything cool existed there.

 

hopefully this time you are going single with this HBP???

 

GT40R

The last one I sold before I was able to go single.

 

Sweet, This one will be killer. I'll be watching you.

Good Luck and Good Job

 

Next time leave the tranny in the car and unbolt the PS and AC.

 

Why?

Clutch needed to be changed, I dont want AC. Plus its just easyer for me to pull it all out like that.....

 

Nice man, felt just like yesterday you posted your half bridge white FD

I cant wait til this is done, def post a video man, more in depth too

 

I'm still trying to decide if i like leaving it in there. After about 10 times of doing it both ways I still think pulling with the tranny might be easier.

 

nice! i remember your other one being posted like a week ago, or so it seems when my buddies as me what a HBP is, i show them the vid of your white FD, heh

 

I'm buying a nice digital video camera JUST for this car.

There's going to be more vids than you'll know what to do with.

My girlfriend loves the FD, loves going fast, and loves it when I race, so basicly, everything is going to be on vid.

 

your friend went to UTI? theres one of theose schools around my area. Good luck with the project... mine isn't done yet and i started in august 2004

 

We have done that job over 100 times and its easier leaving the tranny in the car. Main reason is its a bitch to put it back on the block out of the car.

 

I agree. There is no reason to pull the tranny with the motor.

 

I am the friend... UTI was nothing but a disappointment to me, I went through four classes and realised that the school does nothing except set you up to be a dealer tech; they are constantly pushing their manfacturer-specific training programs on you even when you state repeatedly that you have no interest in them, they emphasize classroom training and base alot of their material off old chevy V6 and smallblock V8 motors.... Anyways, i went to the school with the idea that it would give me a lot of the background i needed to pursue a career in the performance (specifically EFI tuning) automotive industry, when in fact, it didn't. Every day I went to work in North Phoenix at a hot rod / custom shop and learned a ton of stuff and got paid. Then I drove half an hour to school and sat in a classroom 4 out of 5 days, paid out the ***, and learned next to nothing. By the time i earned over 100% in the school's most advanced electronics class without trying I was done and went back home to WA. So now I have a dozen perfectly good blue shirts except for the logo of that school, I still wear them everyday to work, but Im trying to find a patch big enough & in the right size to put over it. Anyone have ideas, I'll buy 12 of em lol.

/offtopic

Motor pull seemed easy enough although this is only the second time I ever pulled a motor out of an FD, both times with the tranny still attached. This time around it was about maybe 2 or 3 minutes from when we attached the engine hoist to the chain until the motor was out and clear from the car (well, the second time we attached it... there's a whole 'nother story behind that)

the engine hoist is a cheapy from some auto store. when i put it together, the rear support beams (just pieces of flat mild steel) did not fit on, the beams were about 1/2" too short, we figured to just leave them off. ...

This was a bad idea.

about 1" of engine movement, then about five more pumps, justin noticed the hoist was bending where the vertical post bolts to the frame... luckily we were then able to let the slack off the hoist, use the now-ovalized bottom of the hoist to push it backwards, and lo and behold the rear support's bolt holes to line up - project saved.
Jason what specifically do you mean when you say unbolt the power steering and air conditioning? I took off both lines to the pump - or do you mean to remove the pump?

 

Good luck with your project man. I think i can come up this weekend if you want me to help at all or just to hang. I hope my turbo project finishes up here quick....I am sick of it being in the garage...I wanna drive it.

 

Damn didnt know there were so many people from washington in the 3rd gen section.

 

You get that manifold yet?

 

I really have no ******* idea where it is.......thinking about it just pisses me off. I need that, Weld on WG flange, make DP and install. I have EVERYTHING else done.

 

Heres my girlfriend working on the motor, She took off the intake pipes and the Y pipe all by herself (i had to take a ****)




I think the motor mount might have been broken. lol



Turbos ready to come off



Turbos finaly off



After the turbos came off i notice coolant and oil in the exhaust ports you can see some of the coolant in there.



Thats all there is for tonight, tomorrow hopefully it will be stripped down to the block.

 

unbolt the AC and PS from the block and zip tie them to the fender rail "leave in the car"...and you can leave the tranny in the car also.

 

You Know it!!!!

 

ROTFLMAO Thanks dubulup and Jason for the tips, much appriciated.

 

Hey man i Still have that video from your last FD! Wicked car!