My tt swap thread with PICS

[MuDvAyNeDude122]

I guess this will be my official thread on this, i had another going but i dont think anyone really saw it cause of the title. Anyways heres my progress so far. 9 months ago my car spun a bearing right before i was going to do a tt conversion. So i got a jdm motor.



This is what i found when i pulled the tranny(ats twin carbon clutch):





I took my transmission up to es3000gt to get my vcu welded:





I tried to turn the engine and it would hit a point, then i try to turn it the other way and it would get to a point and get stuck. FUCK!!!



After pulling the lower intake manifold i found a bolt in there, so i pulled that out, still the same problem. So i end up pulling both heads. I found a washer stuck between the valve and the cylinder head. After i pulled that out everything spun freely. So i contined to do a 120k on the motor. I didnt want to have the oil pan off outside, so i carted the motor into my bedroom with this:


Dont tell me you have never used your moms little gardening cart to carry around your engine.

[MuDvAyNeDude122]

I installed the new oil pump:


Put the pan back on and carted it back outside cause i realized i would never be able to move it with the heads on.

First head on:


and a complete longblock again:


almost ready to drop in:


In the process of putting on the timing belt. I didnt have anything to hold the cams in place so i just put a ratchet on each cam gear and lined them up long enough to put on the belt and clip it down with binder clips. The first time I tried this the clips shot off the front cams and the gear cut the shit out of my finger while i was trying to wrap it around the water pump pulley.


I cleaned up the tranny a little bit before install:




along with the valve cover


and i have been in the process of polishing this plenum over the past month, i wish i had more than just sand paper and a dremel.

When i first started:


after 25 hours of sanding, still no polish yet

[MuDvAyNeDude122]

After i got it all back together, the swap began


The old na


had to get the pic of me in the engine bay


New one goin in


All bolted down, this was a pain in the ass with just me


got on the greddy fmic gb


and over the last couple of days i have been putting the engine bay back together.



finished polishing the plenum, its still not perfect, ill work on it more eventually, and i wasnt happy enough with the "polished" pipes from greddy so i went over those with some polish to and switched out all the blue couplers for red and some t-bolt clamps.


thats as far as i got as of today. I will post more pics as i finish it up. I never realized how much it took to have some of those perfect looking engines and engine bays like some of you, I tried and cleaned everything as best i could and it doesnt look half as good as some of the engines on this board.

and one last pic of the car itself:

[Mr.3000]

Wow that's awesome man. Good job so far and nice pics

[cerevo]

have you gotten to drive it yet?

[Monster Stealth]

Looks awesome! Congrats Now I just need to finish my car up

[TajMan]

Looks awesome, nice FMIC, sweet to find that clutch!

[MuDvAyNeDude122]

thanks for the comments, havnt driven it yet, still not done and have a pretty big to-do list still.

I ran into a problem with the oil cooler, i have this one: http://www.3sx.com/store/comersus_vi...dProduct=24895 and now i have to fit it in there with the fmic. I dont know where though, i see people put the stock ones resting on the y pipes of the ic piping but this one is almost horizontal when i put it in there so it wouldnt really be doing much. Anyone have any suggestions?

[VR4-GASM]

Sweet setup.

And damn you for getting Moda's. I want them so bad!

[guywit94sl]

dude, that car is SEXY!

engine swap > tt conversion