[quote="Berserko":32qc40cw]So Paul have you started the swap yet or you still waiting on parts?[/quote:32qc40cw]
I am getting the last few runs out of louie while the weather holds out.. I've taken him to work the past few days.
My sig says what I need. I don't actually have my grubby little hands on the o2 pipe or tranny yet, but they are (in theory) on the way. DSMRacer said he shipped the o2 pipe, but I haven't seen it yet. Texmirage is going to send me the tranny/FW/PP/Master+slave clutch cyl from that talon he is parting out. Of course that is after it stops raining and he removes it from the car
I just picked up the engine last weekend. It is hanging on the cherry picker right now in my garage. I need to get a slew of gaskets, nuts and bolts tho. For some reason, nobody gives you that stuff when you buy parts.
Speaking of parts, how hard is it to replace one of the studs that hold the exhaust manifold in? One of them is snapped off on the block I just picked up. It looks like he did that a while ago because there is just a trace of carbon showing that he was running it with that stud not there. Oh, and looking in the exhaust ports... my valves are white... bad? good? typical?
I'm thinking this weekend I'm going to yank the 4g15 and start work on the brake/PS lines. They are all crusty and scary. I'm just worried that once I start hacking away, I will be missing some major part that I can't find or afford. Then I will have a "dead" car in the garage. I've never done this kind of stuff before.
-paul