Evolving into a Celestial Dragon, a 3SGTE Swap (Pictures in Album) Options

[mak5603]

It will be really, really loud open down pipe.

[Soulend]

yeah... haha I will make sure to have earplugs... but really will it damage the engine? like the valves or turbo?

Kevin

[Culpable04]

the car will be fine, it'll be loud but who cares, enjoy it lol.

some people have driven around for weeks with just downpipe.

[mak5603]

Yeah, I was going to say, it's Just like the Honda people who drive around open header for the entire existence of their car, haha. Only thing is open header Honda's sound like awful farts and open downpipe just sounds ridiculously badass, like a race car, haha.

[DEATH]

the car will be fine, it'll be loud but who cares, enjoy it lol.

some people have driven around for weeks with just downpipe.

I've done it many times
don't wait for a exhaust to enjoy your work
Hell when I built my 5S-FTE I went around open DP for a week till I could get to the exhaust place.

This post has been edited by DEATH: Oct 14, 2010 - 1:50 PM

[presure2]

haha thanks guys!

I know this is pretty much a stupid question, but how bad would it be to run the car for a few minutes with just a downpipe?

I'm having a local shop install the new system in for me... they are going to do it for pretty cheap, but they will not just sell me the kit. they want to make it for the car, which is fine. but I probably wont be able to do it till monday or wednesday...

I just to test it, and see if its running okay and take it around the block a couple of times...

it'll be fine.
god awefull loud, but fine.

[Soulend]

Haha sweet, yeah if I can get it done by Saturday, ill take it up to an exhaust shop and get the work done, other than that it will have to wait till Wednesday when the guy in my town gets the right connections... thanks for all the help...

So I have the engine ready to be pulled when my friend gets home from work tomorrow... then its going to be a long dash through the night. then test it when its done!

Well I can't think of any questions yet but ill post them when thbey come a long.

Thanks for the help
Kevin

[Soulend]

Hey, actually I totally forgot about spark plugs, is there a set I can get from a local autostore? atleast somethign I can get the car running on until i can order ones from a provider you suggest?

Thanks for your input.

Kevin

[Culpable04]

NGK BCP7ES

go to your autozone / napa / advance auto parts and get some of these.

[Soulend]

Culp to the rescue! haha Thanks man..

Okay, workin on the axels finally got the axle nuts to come off, next are the control arms...

[Soulend]

okay i got them off a while ago, but now i cant get the rear engine mount off... and that one is annoying... and suggestions?

[Soulend]

okay! got it off engine out, moving on

[chacha]

gotta take off the 2nd down pipe....held by 3 bolts....and dismantle the cat covert off...then take off the middle crossbar member with the rear mount on....make sure you undue the bolts of the rear mount on the tranny off first...good luck ....twist and turn and angle that middle bar out...require two people..just in case you get tire

This post has been edited by chacha: Oct 15, 2010 - 9:44 PM

[KAOS]

Any updates at all?

[Soulend]

Hey, so yes some updates,

Last weekend I started it, and had to stop because I didn't have the right mounting brackets (right mounts wrong/no brackets) so I started up this weekend again thanks to Manny quickly sending me the correct brackets....

however, after spending 12 hours on trying to get the engine in... we had to stop... everyone was tired, and I was mostly extremely frustrated...

so if you can help me that would be AMAZING... I'm really at a loss at what to do... I have like NO room on either side of the engine bay... here are pictures to help explain...

first off this shows the PITA mount that is causing all the effin problems:

here you can see the the mount is to far to the right side and needs to move more left... but that is impossible... because there is no room left for it to move that way. im actually worried about the belts and pulleys shown here:


this shows you how far off the front is as well:


and I don't want to talk about the rear mount... the only 'good' thing about that, is the bracket is around it...

so I have NO CLUE what to do... Id rather not back it out for a third time... but if you have another clever way to do it and make it work Ill effin do it like right now... I'm pissed and irratated at this thing... "Labor of Love" my ass, this is a nightmare! heh...

Hope to hear from you guys soon!
Kevin

This post has been edited by Soulend: Jul 25, 2011 - 6:40 PM

[Stambo]

your using a gt trans right? I had no problem at all getting everything to correctly mount up.

[presure2]

i need some CLEAR pictures, taken from directly above the mounts.

when i install these setups, i usually lower the motor into the car using 16 chain links on the drivers side, and ~5 on the passanger, and get the tranny down and under the frame rail.
once its there, i put the drivers side tranny mount into the frame rail bracket, then raise the tranny into place with a jack and install the bolts that hold the mount to the tranny bracket.
then the passanger side mount you can just raise the engine into place, the mount should fall right into place with a bit of wiggling, then the front and rear by rotating the motor.
take the front to back crossmember off, support the motor, take the passanger mount off, and start again.

[njccmd2002]

do not tighten the gt drivers side mount to the tranny until you have centerer the mount to the body.

Same will prbably go for the other mounts.

Got to giggle them. They will fit. Same thing happenend to me when i dropped the gt tranny to fix the clutch..

[Soulend]

so... Im starting to wonder if there is something wrong with the transmission mount... EVERY other mount is in and attached... not that one...

not sure,

Kevin

PS yes, it is a 5SFE Trans

This post has been edited by Soulend: Oct 24, 2010 - 2:35 PM

[Soulend]

hey everyone,

here are some clearer pictures of the engine, mount, bracket, and mounting points on the transmission.

there are slits in the mount because my friend thought it might help to get the thing mounted, I plan to eventually getting it replaced, but for now I just want to get the thing mounted correctly...

Ill be taking pictures of the other mounts tomorrow, but if you can see something that doesn't look right with the bracket, or bracket mounting points please let me know
Kevin