Saturdays In Raleigh, Nc
05-29-05, 06:09 PM
#3501
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Originally Posted by JKM
I'm not sure about a T2, but in the FB you can pull out the engine and tranny together, but it's a little bit of a pain. You have to lift the engine out at a very specific angle so that you can lift it up and away but still have the tranny on it and not hit your hood.
Personally, I'd say the transmission is easy enough to remove, just yank it off first and then lift the engine out by itself. Then put the two back together when it's out of the car, just don't forget which tranny bolt goes where since they are all different lengths.
Personally, I'd say the transmission is easy enough to remove, just yank it off first and then lift the engine out by itself. Then put the two back together when it's out of the car, just don't forget which tranny bolt goes where since they are all different lengths.
im gonna have alot of TII parts, anything anyone wants needs?
05-29-05, 06:33 PM
#3502
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.
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.
05-29-05, 07:50 PM
#3503
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
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
05-29-05, 09:14 PM
#3504
Mechanical Engineering
Originally Posted by Smoken'
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.
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.
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
05-30-05, 11:03 AM
#3506
Mechanical Engineering
Originally Posted by arghx
Barry what parts do you have for the swap? Have you found a motor yet?
but today im going hunting for cadillacs
05-30-05, 10:12 PM
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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
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
05-30-05, 11:43 PM
#3510
Mechanical Engineering
Originally Posted by JKM
What condition is the old T2 motor in?
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.
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05-31-05, 12:11 AM
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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 $$ to go until next weekend... plus I figured it would be cool to go to F-ville, then go to the drive-in meet the next day, so we all have something cool to talk about together. 
05-31-05, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Turbo II
ummm, how was the ride home saturday night josh? any races 
christina, this friday is freaky friday. if not the next freaky friday will be in july.
05-31-05, 11:27 AM
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I get off work at 9 on Friday.......... does someone need a passenger to keep you company?
I want to go, I just don't have the gas $$ and still afford to drive to work next week.
I want to go, I just don't have the gas $$ and still afford to drive to work next week.
06-01-05, 09:27 PM
#3519
Originally Posted by capn
im gonna have alot of TII parts, anything anyone wants needs?
06-01-05, 09:43 PM
#3520
Mechanical Engineering
Originally Posted by JKM
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.
but i gotta T2 engine tanny, driveshaft, coils, shrouds, rad fan, oil cooler, plug wires...
basically everthing NOT in this picture is for sale
06-01-05, 10:55 PM
#3522
Mechanical Engineering
Originally Posted by JKM
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.
06-01-05, 10:56 PM
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06-02-05, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by FD3sAutobot
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
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
How is Ft Sam Houston?
06-02-05, 12:02 PM
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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?
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?