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Stroker motor arrival :)

Here are some things I ran into....

I was looking at my motor and then the empty engine bay and realized my motor mounts were on the motor upside down. They were labelled drivers and passangers so I just slapped them on, good thing I saw this before droppin the motor in. Surprised no one here caught that.

the washers on my arp exhaustheader bolts had to be trimmed to clear the darn cylinder head studs.... they stick up more than the bolts I guess, some a little more than others.
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I got a vigilante 3500 stall converter, replacing my old "edge racing" 2800 converter.

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I got a new alky pump too as mine was leaking a bit last year and was going on 5 years old. I put washer fluid in over the winter but I didn't wanna take any chances. I also got a new fuel filter, injectors and a hot wired injector harness. To make sure my alky pressure is up I got an alky guage. It took alot of wiring but not too bad. I am not sure if it works yet as I don't have the car runnin, but soon.

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For those of you all wondering if the rjc deep sump pan fits with a factory k member it sure does, but it was tight. It is really low too when it was on the stand next to my old engine.
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Looking good!

Tell me about the alky gauge...I swear it took me 10 hours to install that little gauge. It seemed like a great idea when I bought it...I hope mine works too or it is going up forsale.

Last thing...after stripping the plenum bolts, did you actually ONLY lift the motor from those 4 bolts? I would worry about stripping those bolts and causing an intake leak.

Jason
 
ya the alky guage was alot of wires, I had to clean up the mess you see in the pic. I had to call Julio as I was unsure about wiring from the PAC but it was pretty straight forward.

AS far as stripping the intake bolt threads I sure hope not. My corvette motor was delivered off a forklift from the engine shop with that plate on the aluminum intake so I figured it would be ok for this motor. I had no problems with that intake so I hope this one is good.

right now I am still waiting for a few more parts and I am just praying that everything works when I get it all back together.

Jarred.
 
Car is all back together....

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Car sure sounds and feels different. The HR motor mounts sure hold the motor still but you can feel more vibration for sure. I was thinking of getting a 4" maf pipe but as you can see it wont fit, as confirmed on another thread. I still have to get the wideband O2 welded into the exhaust pipe. That'll have to wait cause still snow on the ground. Next thing I'd like to do is some suspension and a rear end. Maybe next winter. Too bad you can't even see those exhaust headers I painted, geez.
 
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jarredsoon said:
Car sure sounds and feels different. The HR motor mounts sure hold the motor still but you can feel more vibration for sure.
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Good stock replacement motor mounts and the strap works great! No vibration!

I rode in a hopped up Talon and Supra. Both solid mounts, the vibration was terrible. I mean really bad! haha Look on the bright side, you prolly will not have to change them again. lol

Looks great Jarred! PM me if you need info on a 4" Maf pipe.


Joe
 
Oil pressure now is 80 on cold start and 40 when at hot idle. That fixes that problem!! I still have not diagnosed the cause of low oil pressure in the old motor, all I have done is pull the pan and take a look. pick up looked fine and other than that I don't really know how to examine bearings or what to look for. I suppose next would be to investigate the oil pump and spring??

Yeah that is my garage, it is the perfect size for storing cars and having room for winter projects. One thing I dislike about my garage is the lighting is poor, and I can't change light bulbs without one of those big long poles, I was down to one or two good bulbs an dfinally got on e of those poles. Broke a few bulbs replacing them all, now it is kinda light in there, but definately not bright. My cousin bought me those flood lights on a tripod and I use those all the time.

The band clamp on the up pipe going into the TBody is resting ontop of the 3" maf I have so that is why I don't think a 4" maf will fit. I have heard that some guys just dent the underside of the 3" up pipes and the top of the 4" maf to allow them to clear eachother. This is something I will look at when my stock maf fails and I go to a translator and lt1 maf set up.

I want to put in some subframe connectors, any recomendations??

Mike you were saying the coolant bottle heat sheild can get easily damaged, mine is held together with duct tape and has orange/rust spots all over it. I believe it is one from Johns performance from back in the day.
 
Yep, the coolant cover on the car you just did the motor on is definitely not a stocker. The one on your #733 I just put on before you bought it and it is an original one and in great condition since I paid dearly for it. Just don't get them wet and they will last a long time. The motor looks awesome BTW and I bet you are itching for spring.
 
I have global west weld in ... for abt 4 yrs still not welded on lol and the brace for the ps box
 
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