Update time. About two more weekends of work here. Some fail, but mostly win.
Got it timed: WIN.
Waterpump, cam oil baffle, flanges: WIN. Flanges on the wrong way, waterpump on before the big-assed accessory bracket, forgetting to install the cam seal: FAIL.
The biggest FAIL of all so far: Fitting the stupid intake/exhaust manifolds. Some of the grinding on the intake that I did:
And on the exhaust manifold... AFTER I had already grinded away a lot of material and painted it...
And the studs that NAPA had were too short too. :banghead:
Now for some more WIN:
Got all of the stupid accessory brackets and crap figured out. After going through ETKA finding all of the bolt sizes, then spending $60 on hardware..... Finally it's together. I got the engine off of the stand and on the hoist so I could put together the rear seal/clutch/etc...
Gasser clutch/pp/flywheel:
Flanges on the correct way this time... :rolleyes:
Marked a new TDC spot on the flywheel....
More things to go on the car...
:laugh:
Shown here: Missing Linkz complete hardware kit, oil-pan baffle/gasket, and the gauges above: (oil pan was temporarily installed for the other pics to catch drippings)
Money shot!
Won't be long now!!! Turbo should be coming this week, along with oil lines and a new T3 8v manifold. Could realistically have the engine ready to put in the car this weekend. Probably won't happen though. Still a fair amount of things to do...
Some wiring- for the gauges, also need all of the senders and sensors figured out, still need a boost gauge, I would like to have a tach cluster too. Also going to run a small fuel lift-pump, so I have to do a circuit for that and figure out how to mount it, re-doing the glowplug circuit to a better design, relaying the headlights, etc....
Mechanicals: Build the downpipe and exhaust, fabricate caps/block-offs for the manifold, run all new vac/boost tubing, fabricate the turbo intake/intercooler piping, hook up a manual boost controller, :laugh:
mount the intercooler somewhere, still need a damn oil cooler........
Lot of work ahead but most of the hard stuff is over.
Brendan