Adventures in engine swapping...

[Matt Park]

Here are some pics of Zach-Attack and I removing my old broken engine, pulling his 93xxx km 6-bolt and dropping into my Eclipse, then assembling Zach's stroker (a combination of my ported head setup with Derek's 2.3 bottom end) and throwing it in his talon. If it seems like the pics fall short of telling the story to it's completion, it's because eventually we forgot to keep taking pictures... oh well.

Step 1: Assemble the compressor ----------- check!




No way in hell it would have happened without this guy




I wish a 2 post lift fit in there...






Liquid Wrench, don't bother starting unless you have some.


Yes I'm using the jack handle as a snipe


She's a big one but she was already dead...



The next victim













Destruction! We later put a new boot on it. Messy it was.


It's my fish now Zach!


He insisted on having an "in the empty bay" pic


Brett showed up to drink beer and supervise the timing belt jobs




Sorry guys... I know... crack kills.



Poof!!! they're in!

[Zach Holt]

wow alot of boxxers in them photos. I like the cheesey bay pic.

way to hump the block brett


ill toss a pic or two of the finished bay

[Sy Haw Wong]

Looks like a lot of fun and work ~

Good job guys ~

[Ryan Singh]

Good job guys! I love the part where it's dark all of a sudden and

Brett showed up to drink beer and supervise the timing belt jobs

LOL

[Josh Royle]

looked like lots of fun.

I love how bretts passing out on the block

[John Hartman]

man, soooooo many captions, so little time...

PULL YOUR PANTS UP!!

[Zach Holt]

ok here are the pics.

new gears etc, finally mounted the FPR



Nice placement of a 10inch push fan "some rad mount triming". Theres a 12inch pull on the other side of the rad on the other end.



Nice new location for the batt resting down low. bracket comming soon.



Full bay pic. I like my Exhoust wrap job


My bundle of oil lines to the oil filter and oil cooler.



and my oil cooler




and thats that

[Ivan Skare]

Good job!

I have the same battery as you, I suggest the JMF battery try and hold down if you don't have it already.

[Zach Holt]

Good job!

I have the same battery as you, I suggest the JMF battery try and hold down if you don't have it already.

ill just make one out of some aluminum. thanks for the idea

[John Hartman]

Same battery as me and Lowell too.  Its good shit.

A member has a JMFab small battery box for sale.  Rich C.

[Brett Haviland]

that oil cooler placement has disaster written all over it.  I would fix that before you spew oil everywhere after bashing it on a bump.

Other then that its looking good guys!!

I NEVER PASSED OUT ON THE BLOCK!!! i drank 4 beers!! jeeze!

At least my pants stayed on my ass!!

[Zach Holt]

ahha They think your passed out? ahah not even! you were air humping the block!

[Racing Greed]

You guys had lots of fun!!!!!

Good Job!!!!!!!!!

[Marke Bailey]

that oil cooler placement has disaster written all over it.  I would fix that before you spew oil everywhere after bashing it on a bump.

this is true, ask me how I know. In fact you can ask John's driveway too.

[John Hartman]

In the words of the Immortal Duke Nukem.

"hehehe, what a mess..."