damn, well as of now the engine and tranny are dangling in the engine bay on the hoist. soooo i dont want to reconnect stuff, what i think i will do is put the back up on jacks and drop the nose of the car to get a better angle to pull the engine out of the car.

im gonna have alot of TII parts, anything anyone wants needs?

 

Easyest way i think is too remove the two together.

Make sure you drain you tranny fluid, it makes a mess when the drive shaft slides out. Also make sure you drain the coolant from the block It is over by the driver side engine mount in the center iron.

It is also easyest if you pull the wiring harness out of the car. You do so by pulling the carpet back on the passenger side and unhooking it from the ECU. There are a 5 or 6 connectors from what i remember. Some of them are hard to see. If you pull the harness this way, you dont have to take the intake manifold off while it is still in the car. It saves a lot of time.

 

Whats up fellas! I feel weird being online....not having acces to a computer for the past 10 weeks must have got to me... Anyways hope you guys are doing great and it looks like the group is still going strong. I'm in Tx right now for my MOS. I won't be back in NC until sept or so....maybe later than that if I get a chance to sign up for airborne school. I was looking into getting a FD when I got down here but AIT soldiers can't have POV's......grrr Sooner or later it will happen! I've got to get going....I'll try and get on here as much as I can, later!

Ryan

 

oh i already took the manifold off, i ripped a couple vacuum and coolant hoses but no biggie

here are pics of mt progress today, i started about 9 am and finished about 5:30pm. i took out the driveshaft, exhaust system up to the down pipe (the downpipe had been hallowed out), took off tranny brace, took off motor mounts, took of manifold, removed wiring. disconnected oil cooler lines, and i think thats it. because the engine is just really just floating there.





Damn FPD




EWWWW im all dirty except for my hands

 

Barry what parts do you have for the swap? Have you found a motor yet?

 

ray, i have a modified bellhousing coming and i'll be ordering some hinson mounts and CHRfab CNC mounts too and then i have to do some fabbing for myself.


but today im going hunting for cadillacs

 

What condition is the old T2 motor in?

 

ummm, how was the ride home saturday night josh? any races

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT

there are some coilovers the guy messed up listing and didnt even put rx7 in the title its under fc. ends in about 2 hours

 

well i came home from last saturday's meet driving on 440 at 80 mph 3000rpm hummed nicely no backfiring good boost response, only problem is it would not hold an idle until i got home. makes me think is was electrical because i powerwashed the engine bay prior to the meet. i know its been rebuilt unsure of how many miles are actually on it but i have had it less then 6000 miles and if its any consolation i premixed just incase the OMP didnt work and i changed the oil less then 500 miles ago with 20w 50(but i already drained it) and there are some broken coolant lines and vacuum lines that got ripped in the removal of the engine.

heh oh yeah the engine and tranny are out of the car, all i did was lift the engine high enough so i could turn the engine sideways and sorta shoehorn it out. only thing i had to do extra was remove the shifter. but is it ever a greasy thing i tell you what.

 

Hey guys... I know some of you might be going down to the drag strip in F-ville Friday............ but do you think you could wait and go next Friday, or go again both weekends?? ...Cuz I don't think I will have the $$ to go until next weekend... plus I figured it would be cool to go to F-ville, then go to the drive-in meet the next day, so we all have something cool to talk about together.

 

i think this comeing friday is freaky friday

 

nope we rode home in peace. actually, i almost jumped out and whipped my brothers *** for driving the speed limit all the way. i think he was trying to prove a point.

christina, this friday is freaky friday. if not the next freaky friday will be in july.

 

i might go to freaky friday if i can fit my 7 and my frinds 5.0 onto a trailer some how and make the F-250 work

 

if you decide to go let me know. maybe we can caravan down there.

anyone else want to go?

 

I get off work at 9 on Friday.......... does someone need a passenger to keep you company?

I want to go, I just don't have the gas $$ and still afford to drive to work next week.

 

Wow this is the longest period during a WEEK that nobody's said something on our thread!

Guess that's a "no" to my question.

 

My internet has been messing up and it won't let me post a single thing.

 

You wouldn't want to part with the fuse box from your car would you? I could use a second gen fuse box (the one on the strut tower) in my SE.

 

eh no sorry gotta reuse that one for the swap

but i gotta T2 engine tanny, driveshaft, coils, shrouds, rad fan, oil cooler, plug wires...

basically everthing NOT in this picture is for sale

 

Heh. Don't tempt me to put a T2 engine into my FB. I don't need that right now. Althought that would be really cool.

 

not just cool...but fast

 

hey guys check out my ebay auction


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...978355052&rd=1

 

Great to hear from you! Been wondering how far along you were in Basic or whether you'd moved on to AIT. Can't wait to see you drive up in that FD when you get back. There was a guy that came to a Drive-In back a couple months ago in a beautiful black Supra and said he had a white FD with black interior and no engine that he wanted to sell, he is the firearms instructor with the NCHP. He was wanting to get $6500 for the body. We were thinking that you could bet a JDM engine and install it for less than $4500 and have a great looking, rare car for a great price.

How is Ft Sam Houston?

 

A thought happened to me last night as I was watching the Eagles concert on TV last night. We were talking at the last DI of having one meet at the Char Grill each month and do something as a group for the other DI, go to a drag strip, go bowling against an RX8 team, wonder up to VIR for a race or two, do a dyno date in Clayton, all ideas are welcome.

Why don't we take the RRDI on the road?

Johny drives down to Raleigh from Danville when he can find a running FC, why don't we caravan up to the Danville area one time this summer? Maybe we could get Dexter to come over.

We could also drive down to Clayton for a DI and then later have one in Rocky Mount just so that we could get Lee to a DI.

We still need to make the Down East Drive also. Anyone up for some summer driving. Need to get the rotaries out on the road and drive'm for a few hours to clean the engine out and knock the rust off the brakes and rotors.

Haven't heard from BI7 lately, maybe we could go west and meet him somewhere?