Lt1 removal through engine compartment?
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Save your money on that intake manifold tool. I pulled my motor through the top without the intake on and with the heads. It's a real easy job. There are some pictures in my signature of the motor going back in through the top.
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Joined: Oct 2002
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From: Danville, CA
yeah....like SO MANY others....I had heard SO MUCH about how HARD pulling a motor out of the Camaro was going to be from the top....
My car has new/non stock brake lines and other mods that made it a pain to disconnect it all to go out the bottom...and I was in a rush, so I couldn't wait for the TPiS tool....I spent a Saturday morning pulling off all the "stuff" off the motor, but heads, all front stuff not easily removed was still on it....tranny was not....so 3-4 hours to remove stuff then......took 20 minutes to get it out the top using a cheap chain!
My car has new/non stock brake lines and other mods that made it a pain to disconnect it all to go out the bottom...and I was in a rush, so I couldn't wait for the TPiS tool....I spent a Saturday morning pulling off all the "stuff" off the motor, but heads, all front stuff not easily removed was still on it....tranny was not....so 3-4 hours to remove stuff then......took 20 minutes to get it out the top using a cheap chain!
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Joined: Feb 2000
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From: Dark side of the moon
Originally posted by carlos64030
Save your money on that intake manifold tool. I pulled my motor through the top without the intake on and with the heads. It's a real easy job. There are some pictures in my signature of the motor going back in through the top.
Save your money on that intake manifold tool. I pulled my motor through the top without the intake on and with the heads. It's a real easy job. There are some pictures in my signature of the motor going back in through the top.
I'll be pulling mine soon and need all the info i can get.
thanks
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Joined: Dec 2000
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From: NYC, NY
I took off the intake and put the chain on two bolts ran into the heads, it worked fine and relatively easy, I was really surprised at how easy it was and I've done it both ways now. As a precaution I would remove the radiator, if it's an M6 the hardest part is coaxing it off the shaft
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Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Salt Lake City, Utah
Originally posted by InjectedSS
Remove the engine out the top?? What you mean like THIS
Yea I do it every year, 2hrs 42min is my record time
Remove the engine out the top?? What you mean like THIS
Yea I do it every year, 2hrs 42min is my record time
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Joined: May 1999
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From: Charlottesville, VA, USA
Pulled out the top pics here:
http://www.carprogrammer.com/Z28/Eng...d2001/buildup/
lots more pictures here:
http://www.carprogrammer.com/Z28/EngineRebuild/
Feel free to surf around, hope this helps,
-Christian
http://www.carprogrammer.com/Z28/Eng...d2001/buildup/
lots more pictures here:
http://www.carprogrammer.com/Z28/EngineRebuild/
Feel free to surf around, hope this helps,
-Christian
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Originally posted by GhostZ
I hope you can break that record when it's time to do mine
I hope you can break that record when it's time to do mine
