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[jbuhrman]

Hey there is NOTHING wrong with working in flip flops just sayin

[Boost4VR4]

Well more accomplished today. Cleaned up the transmission a bit, pulled some of the bolts out of the transmission and then cleaned them up and re-inserted them back in the transmission 1 by 1. Cleaned out the bell housing as much as I could and pulled the fulcrum out, cleaned it up. Greased up the fulcrum detent and installed back in the transmission. I removed the old input/pilot bearing, greased the splines and the shaft for the pilot bearing. Installed the pilot bearing clip to the fulcrum and it's ready to go. Installed the motor mounts to the engine and the transmission. Added some other stuff to the engine that is needed and installed the brackets for attaching to the engine hoist. Will install the transmission to the new engine once it's off the stand and has a flywheel and pressure plate attached along with the clutch. I need to order a new transmission fill plug since the one that is on the transmission is chewed up a bit. Will snap some photos of the transmission attached to the new engine.

[Boost4VR4]

Well let's fast forward a bit to the end result of the weekend's work. I attached the flywheel. clutch disc with alignment tool, pressure plate to engine. I got the transmission on the new engine and used my new transmission bolts that I picked up for the reinstall. The transmission was on the engine pretty quickly. Then I set out to work on putting the engine into the car.

The solid engine mounts were a little tough to work with, but the key I soon found out was to loosen up the bolts to the mounts a bit so I can move them around then position the engine in place, run the bolt through each of the mounts, then tighten the engine onto the mounts. Then go back and tighten all of the mounts into the frame.
Here's a wider shot of the engine as I started working through hooking stuff up:

Here's the mess on the firewall. Transmission isn't perfectly clean, but I am not that worried about it being super clean:

Then I ripped out the old engine harness:

Installed new Megasquirt ECU and new harness under passenger floor tray:
Then I worked on installing the new power steering cooler:

Then I stopped working on it. I need to look at wiring harness options as I am trying to minimize the wiring.

[CoreyB]

Nice progress!!

[j2k4]

You go, Kev.

[Boost4VR4]

Well lately I have been tinkering with the wiring situation. I got some of the engine harness wired up. TPS, IAC, IAT, Injectors are tested, working on Spark and knock sensor. Found out I need to eliminate the PTU and have the Megasquirt drive the ignition coil directly. Also found out I need to either find a scanmaster 3 that can do analog output to a pin on the Megasquirt ECU so it can count knock.

[Boost4VR4]

I am going to be making a lot of updates pretty soon as I have been working on the wiring. I am rebuilding the existing harness and moving wiring into the car to then start converting it over to resettable breakers and hooking up switches to various components that are needed. I am also building the actual schematic that the car will be. That will be posted in the next couple days as I finish it up.

[Boost4VR4]

Well, no updates as of late other than the second SOHC engine is gone and I now have more room to start making more progress.

[Boost4VR4]

Nothing new yet, but the weather is looking good this weekend so I might get some garage time! I am waiting for some flanges from Columbia River Mandrel Bending so I can start building a mock manifold set. Once the mock up is done, then I can have it made.

[Boost4VR4]

Knocksense came in
Manifold, T4 flanges and vband clamps come in tomorrow.