How long has it taken you guys to drop in your motor from start to finish? Im going to see if I can get it done in two days with the help of 2-3 guys..

The motor is complete from intake to pan and it will have the bellhousing already attached....

What do you guys think? Also any tips or advice ahead of time??

:Crossing fingers:

 

I did that with my father 3 days ago. It took us about 6 hours. It will be easier if you remove engine pulley and mounts from engine and car.Good luck

 

6hrs wow, what do you mean by engine pulley? The Harmonic balancer?

 

Hardest part was getting the engine to align with the motor mount bolt holes..after that it was cake..Took me about 4-5 hrs also..

Cody

 

The hardest part for me was aling the engine and transmission (6 speed) and putting engine in side engine bay (thats why I take out Harmonic balancer or engie pulley name it as you want . Rest of procedure was easy.

 

Obviously you've got the engine together, ran it on the dyno, etc., ...... so tell us..... how'd she do?
Inquiring minds wanna know.

Installation, I'd guess 4-6 hours depending on the pace you like to work at. I usually work at a rate of about 1 bph, or 1 "beer-per-hour" so it takes me a while.

-Mindgame

 

scyzoryk, you did it with the tranny still in the car? I have a 6 spd and my motor is coming out at the beginning of summer and i figured i would have to pull the tranny then the motor, and when i install motor then tranny. That is the way it usually is with standard transmissions. How hard was it to line up the input shaft?

 

It hasnt been on an engine dyno yet and isnt going to, instead were going to take it to a chassis dyno in the next couple weeks. The budget and time for this project was very, very tight so we decided to do the tuning/testing on the dyno so that we could kill two birds with one stone.

It should pump out some very tremendous numbers considering the budget we adhered to...

Bret could probably chime in with the specifics...

 

For all you guys that replied. How much of the motor was together when you dropped it in? Was the waterpump on, etc?

Also I have been posting looking for anwsers and you guys could tell me right away...how does the accessory bracket go back on. I can seem to find pics of it and I forgot how it goes...

Thanks.

 

Cody did you attach the mounts that bolt directly to the block before hand, and then bolt up the frame ones or did you bolt up the block ones once the motor was in the bay?

 

When I swaped my angine tranny was on the car. It took me about 30 minutes to align tranny and engine, but during that I broke master clutch cylinder ($35 in autozone).
It wasnt so hard. Of course my father did almost all the work

 

BPH, I'm about the same.


I'd love to run it on the dyno, but setting it up to do that with the ECU and the rest of the stuff is not really fun, and as Matt said not in the budget.

Besides, doesn't really matter what it makes at the flywheel, people now only think in RWHP numbers anyways.

I've gotta guess at what it will do, but I'll say right now over 400rwhp.

I gotta figure out the total cost to replicate this and figure out the $ per rwhp.

Matt,

I would bolt up the block ones to the block and the frame ones to the frame.

Looks like late night Friday is th best time for me. Which from the plans sounds good.

Bret

 

Cool, hey if he can get ~540 lbs-ft from a 350, shouldn't have much trouble nailing ~570 with a 383.... so maybe 490-500 lbs-ft at the rear wheels and ~520 rwhp. Should be interesting!

-Mindgame

 

Got yours in right before me Bret.

Sounds like a good goal. I assume you guys went a little mild on this build... then again I had no idea on the cam specs or rpm goals.
Sounds good though!

-Mindgame