out. Time to start transferring parts to the "new" shortblock

 

I would have thought, especially since you pulled the tranny too, that dropping it out the bottom with the K would have been easier than pulling it up.

Regardless, I'm getting pretty sick of your engine always being pulled before I can check it out.

 

the easiest way is to seperate the trans and engine and pull the engine by itself but my LT's kinda prevent that. 2nd easiest would be the K-member dropping and I would of done that but that would tie up my lift at work and I need that space to earn money. So it came out the traditional way so the front suspension stays intact, the car itself is mobile and my boss is some-what happy

I'm pretty sick of pulling my own **** motor, I blame Arin's sheep.

 

:blametehsheep:

 

https://themustangsource.com/showpost.php?p=5659689&postcount=5464

 

so I went to a club meeting over the weekend and peer pressure prevailed. Good Guys is coming up this weekend and my club always participates. The challenge was thrown down and now I have 1 week of Chaos to complete.

the car will be complete and running by friday night.

Day 1: the old engine has been broken down to a shortblock and mounted on an engine stand. I started transferring parts to the "new" shortblock. If everything goes right tomorrow, the engine should be ready to swap in tomorrow or wednesday night. Pics to follow after my BlackBerry stops being ghey

 

Day 2: mucho progress

shortblock is now a longblock


everything staged for tomorrow morning


valve-covers, balancer, flywheel and clutch will go on 1st thing. Trans will also get stabbed in the morning and I'll do teh headers during lunch. So that puts me on track for doing it in tomorrow after work and re-wiring on thursday

 

So wait, you've done this four times in the same amount of time it's taken Arin to convert his car to efi? No, wait, that's not done yet...

 

I will own a GT500 by the time Arin finishes that

Day 3 of Chaos:


she's a few pounds heavier now

 

x 2

 

on the 4th day of Chaos, it awakened



I started it this evening....... with open headers and scared the service writers

small list for tomorrow: exhaust back on, cooling system, front accessories, interior and test drive.
so it's done, but because of a scheduling/family issue, no Good Guys for me

 

Thhat's good and fasat work! I can't even imagine the open headers loudness

 

Very cool! I wish I had a 2 post lift... I would use it for everything. I hate jacking up the car.

 

I guess I should update you guys.

1) it's done
2) it's home
3) I took it to Good Guys over the weekend to celebrate

 

Congrats, that's great news

 

Thats awesome dude

 

That's good news!

 

So did you ever get to tune it before the old motor went to motor heaven, or is it still running the stock tune?

 

it's been running a tune. The last tune combo was for stock bottom/cams/exhaust/intake. I'm running a nitrous version of that tune which has timing retarded through out the powerband. I need to get off my butt and get up to AED for a real tune, but work has been kinda slow

 

Where are you working at, if you don't mind my asking?