Title: Day 2-ish
Tags: DSM Engine Transmission Swap First Gen Turbo All Wheel Drive
Blog Entry: The past few days have been absolutely terrible for going out and working on the car. If anyone has been paying attention to the national news it has just been one round of severe weather after another so I haven't been able to do too much, but the time I've had to out has been productive. One CV shaft is disconnected, another is giving us lots of troubles that we'll just deal with once it is out of the car, we haven't even touched the rear prop shaft yet. The emissions control systems are all taken care of, I converted most of the electrical components on the transmission to accept my USDM wiring harness with the only exception of the transmission oil temperature probe, which I will ultimately end up replacing with an aftermarket probe unless I can figure out how to transfer the probe from the US tranny to the JDM one without risking an oil leak. Today I also disconnected the oil cooler lines, the only two things left on the block in the car, so tomorrow evening the block is coming out so we can better access the transfer case to remove the center diff and pull the tranny. Basically tomorrow everything comes out. I'll drop in the new engine hopefully Wednesday after a few more conversions (o2 sensor, Thermostat housing, Wastegate actuator) and some fresh belts. After that point it's just a matter of connecting everything, checking for fluid leaks and she'll be running again. My goal is to have her driving by the weekend. I'll try to remember to take a video of the first start up for you guys, we'll see how the motor will handle stale gas.
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