jesus h christ no one told me a mini me on a A6 block would be such a fing pain in the ***....first crank pulley of course....broke one extender stepped up to the 3/4 inch with 3/4 inch break bar with 6 feet cheater....still no go..finally found a way to do it such a simple idea...took all but 2 secs after that...without going through the flywheel or anthing....head was insanely stuck on...couldnt get all the gunk off...arp studs arent all the same height on block...intake manifold middle bolt insanely hard to take off....the straight pipe i bought they sent the wrong one....just found out im missing the vtec switc on the soleniod....so much more ****....now im scared she wont come back to me...ill post some pictures on the new invention to break the crank pulley if i ever get this **** done..going on three days..all though the first day was on 2 hours long since my power died till about 12 at night.....sorry..oh yea the plugs on the head gets in teh way of **** i have to bang the f out of the o2 bracket.lasdjflajl;flajla headers are now pusshed forward more too....a6 blcok w/ z6 head i hope the outcome is better then i what i expect.

 

itll be worth it when you fire it up. just keep workin on it and dont think too much about what you got left and before you know it youll be ready to turn the key

 

Pretty lame thread title.

 

well...reason for the title is that when i ask people how long it takes....they usually go 5-6 hours if you never done it...so i alloted myself about 8 hours...now its the span of 3 days...me with no car is a pain in the *** for work and school. I see all these write ups for mini mes and the one that was done on a a6 was like super summerized compared to the other ones....they fail to mention all the other stuff i will encounter and what not...sorry i just felt misinformed....and now im so afraid she wont start back up again ever...

 

That is all part of the game... Just cause someone else's job only took 5-6 hours, never means your's is going to. Some people have power tools that speed the job up, friends to help, all the proper stuff to do it right there.

The biggest thing about doing this is research and having ALL the parts ahead of time. I did a d16z6 swap into a DX and converted to obd1.... 3 months of finding the parts I actually wanted and it was done.

Just keep working on it and you will get it done. Hell, I drove for 9 months without vtec even working on my car. I am just now getting around to replacing the dx tranny for and si tranny. You will be happy when you get it done. I just finished one on a friends car and it took 3 weeks to get it perfect. (we got a bad head, bent valves, timing issues, etc)

Good Luck

 

yea it took me 3 months to collect all my parts since i am doing a full conversion w/ obd 1. Since i never had vtec i didnt know there was another lil plug on the vtec solenoid..thought thts where oil goes into.....but yea i wanted to do everything right...after all is said and done ill be a full done right mini me.....

another thing that pissese me off was that the guy i got the head off of he never told me i was missing a plug on the solenoid nor did he tell me the tps was broken or ***** or some of the tubes are rusted out....now he claims the head is rebuilt...it looks brand new..everything is scratch free and on top of that shiny....but with all his other bad parts im afraid the head is also bad...


now after a mini me what gas do i use? i just read 93 because of the higher compression?

 

I always run 94 octane, and I run a stock z6 with no internal work, little nitrous, but mostly because it is better for the engine. I wouldn't go lower than 91 octane though. Just run premium and you will be fine.

 

do all stock sohc vtec require premium? like the dohc's?

 

Sounds like you are running into all the problems I ran into. Took me from the middle of december until the middle of January to get it running right, of course it was my first time working on a car at all. I really don't have any advice besides keep at it and it'll be worth it when you are done. Oh and I've been running 87 octane on my a6/y8 since january and I haven't had a single problem.

 

hmmmm....wow...i cant wait a whole month! i need my car for work and school

another thing is the a6 o2 i have no use for it anymore right? since i wire up the new 4 wire o2. so it just hangs there?

 

another thing is...when you put the new head on did it pull your headers forward like an inch more?

 

Sorry bout your problems, but I'd like to hear about how you got the crank bolt off.

 

I know how you feel....that middle intake bolt is my arch nemesis.....it has taken me two weekends since I was retarded and when I was assembling my new head on of the rocker arms for the vtec was down and I was retarded and started to torque down the rocker assembly and cracked it....stupid me....but hey I got a new one and got everything hooked up and now I am throwing code 9 and I have been asking everyone for help with not much enlightening info....oh well....it is a good learning experience for us huh.....I am just happy I have a powerful airgun that took my crank pully right off.....and a lift that made things a lot easier...but yeah good luck to you....I know how you feel I am without my car right now too....

 

probably like this. that's how i did it. i did'nt invent it but damn it works good.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LoCoReX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">another thing is...when you put the new head on did it pull your headers forward like an inch more?</TD></TR></TABLE>

It really shouldn't take you a whole month, I did it slowly and ran into bent valves on the new head which added a lot of extra time. I used the a6 header and it fits like stock.

 

there is a tool to hold the pulley while u try to remove the bolt if u dont have air tools it works pretty good

 

no sir i didnt do it like you.....
in fact it takes 1 min to prep for it...i dint have to go through the transmission...as soon as i get teh swap done ill post up the pics for it. all i used was a two break bars and one jack stand

 

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With a Y8 3layer headgasket, that's a 10.3:1 compression. I guess it is up to you to use it, but I wouldn't and I don't.

 

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in fact it takes 1 min to prep for it...i dint have to go through the transmission...as soon as i get teh swap done ill post up the pics for it. all i used was a two break bars and one jack stand</TD></TR></TABLE>
good. there can never be too many ways to get it off.

 

i just took one off at school...while doing a timing belt job.I just used a torch around the pulley bolt and zipped it off with an air gun.I realize that this is next too impossible for most people on here.I would def...look into getting some power tools as well as maybe a torch if your planning on doing future work.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by narib2oo1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i just took one off at school...while doing a timing belt job.I just used a torch around the pulley bolt and zipped it off with an air gun.I realize that this is next too impossible for most people on here.I would def...look into getting some power tools as well as maybe a torch if your planning on doing future work.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Hope you replaced the main seal after torching the area