Barn motor and tranny swap

[larrym]

I think a tranny bolt to the block mine has been missing for years.....

[Steve Wood]

my cars don't have one, but you are right

[good2win22]

Nice find Steve!  Thanks to both of you!  That TV cable lays exactly on the tranny like in the diagram above.   I don't think I'll be using those torque values the way that they are labeled.


No pics tonight. Got the driveshaft in and back side buttoned up.  Routed all the grounds from the wire bundle to the back of the head and ran some ground straps to the head and firewall. Installed the starter and wired it up. Installed the knock sensor and plugged in the connector. Took the die grinder with a scotch Brite pad and buffed off the paint on the intake and bracket and then installed the ignition module bracket to the intake. Took a little break while looking at the champion fuel rails that I have and decided that I don't like the stock hardware that I have to mount the rails. Grabbed the stock rail and installed the 80's into them and installed the racetronix injector harness. I'm thinking about getting some all thread and making my own studs for that champion rail but I can do that later. Installed the temp sensor and the heater hard lines.


It sure is nice standing in the engine bay to do this stuff. Only problem is when you need something so you gotta climb out, grab what you need and then climb back in.


Not much going to happen tomorrow.  My daughter has her last high school softball game of the season.

[Steve Wood]

LOL...9 nm equals 6.6 ft lbs or about 80 inch lbs

[good2win22]

Looking at your diagram again and I see the "in" behind the lbs on the 75.  For some reason when I looked at it last night, I saw the 75 lbs and thought to myself, there is no way I'm torqueing that little bolt to 75 ft lbs.  Oh well I am human

[Steve Wood]

the manual has a lot of errors in the torque values...I think they left the decimal out but the NM number is correct.  Many would have tried to go 75.   the torque is wrong on the intake manifold and many have broken bolts off putting it on

[good2win22]

The game was cancelled due to the field being to wet. Rescheduled for tomorrow. We have had 7.3 inches of rain since Sunday. Not as much as some of my kinfolk down in the Houston area but that's quite a bit for us up here in central Texas. I did some yard work and managed to get some time on my swap. Got the headers installed but not the cross pipe. Spoke with Steve at full throttle and he says they got the actuator from precision yesterday and was going to ship it today.  I'm not holding my breath. I may just throw that little 49 on there to get it going.

[Steve Wood]

Nasty weather has missed me. I have 2.5" in
 total

[good2win22]

Nasty weather has missed me. I have 2.5" in
 total

At least no hail for you this go around!

[good2win22]

Getting closer to firing it up.  Maybe tomorrow

[Charlief1]

I have 2.5" in total

There are operations that can help with that Steve. TB3 told me about them.

[gusszgs]

Jason, who's headers? Good to see the black Wix 

[good2win22]

Jason, who's headers? Good to see the black Wix 

Those are a brand new second hand set of TA race headers. Fit is great and no clearance issues with  RJC 3" down pipe. I ran these headers on my white T. Band clamps on the crossover.  I haven't had any issues with leaks or cracks with these but we'll see on this engine.

[TexasT]

Looking good. I guess you got the converter ironed out. Did he tell you to run it a quart over full, or does that deep pan make up for that? Are you planning for a dual nozzle alky setup? What about the maf? 4.5" z06?

Keep up the good work. I bet you have some mowing to do.

[Steve Wood]

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