about 9:00pm a friend and myself decided to install a header on his car..............

Well we get into it jack the car up and set it on jack stands, the usual. We get his old nasty behind Chikara torque step (engine choker) off of his built ls/vtec. Here is where things go bad, since it is a DA and the header i was installing was a one piece meant that i had to movet the front cross member out of the way for clearance. I start unbolting everything like normal, first i unbolt the motor mount and notice something a little weird, the motor mount bolt was stubborn to come out and once it did come out the front of the engine fell about 1/2" and steadily slanted. I thought nothing of it.

Here is the scary part......
i go up under the engine and unbolt the support bracket that attaches between the sub frame and the chassis and notice nothing, unbolt the sub frame and start to loosen the radius rods for the front suspension and i notice something really weird
THE ENGINE WAS SITTING ABOUT 6" LOWER THAN IT SHOULD ON THE DRIVERS SIDE. I freaked out thinking i had broken something on someone else's car that i was going to have to pay for. Well it turned out that there was only one bolt holding the drivers side mount to the block and that one was stripped (was already stripped from the looks of it and from the amount of crap on it), one was missing totally and the bottom one had broken out which also had happened previously because the bolt head was nowhere to be found.

to think i was under this car/engine with the engine ready to fall out
now i have to pull the engine to install helicoil in two holes and get ez outs to the broken bolt and hope that the threads are still good

plus this is kinda happened at a convenient time seeing as though the tranny had to come out anyways because of new guts being installed, also it was a blessing in disguise because it could have been a much larger problem down the road

 

Wow... I hope that never happens to MY DA.

Anyhoo, long as my fat (ya know) gets up early enough. (10:00 is kinda rough lol) And my hero will install tranny guts t/m we'll end up with m4d 3rd g34r vt3c y0!

may the powers that control my car have mercy on us t/m as we do ALL KINDS OF CRAZY ISH.

Ratliff

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aut0tek &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow... I hope that never happens to MY DA.
Anyhoo, long as my fat (ya know) gets up early enough. (10:00 is kinda rough lol) And my hero will install tranny guts t/m we'll end up with m4d 3rd g34r vt3c y0!

may the powers that control my car have mercy on us t/m as we do ALL KINDS OF CRAZY ISH.

Ratliff</TD></TR></TABLE>

haha chad is now a hero :chuckle:
and man your car is being a pain in the butt, but it is all worth it in the long run

 

haha, update: Tranny became such a pain, and I was observing trying to learn as much as I could about the whole ordeal... Anyhoo, such a bish we ended up with LS 1 and 2, ITR 3,4,5, new 3-4 synchros, and the 4.4 FD. So I think it'll be an alright setup.

Not to mention she's getting a new flywheel, new throwout/pilot bearings, and a new header... Which Dirty Dan is working on right now... I cant cuz I got werk in the morning.

Hope for the best...

Ratliff

 

more news............

this car has become a royal pain in the you know what
parks auto parts gave us the wrong TOB for the clutch
helicoil is done for fubared mount holes and
EVERYTHING is awaiting this stupid bearing
i should have the engine in and running in no less than two hours (yes i am slow, but i have a broken vtec solenoid to fix and some fab work on the exhaust)

to bed i go since i just got back home from working on this thing, it is now 2:20am

 

And... what was it... OH YEA AN ENGINE AND TRANNY TO PUT IN. lmao j/k j/k

God I hope we get this thing done t/m.

Ratliff

 

update


<FONT COLOR="red"><FONT SIZE="10">It is DONE</FONT></FONT>

everything is done except the VTEC solenoid that has to be rewired

up til 5am last night working on this thing

 

damn thats soem quick work are you pulling full days work on this or every now and then

 

no this was done in two sessions
all in the wee hours of the morning
i didn't get done with it until about 4:30am this morning
then i had to do a bit of cleanup before i could hit the sack

 

wiggity wiggity wack! I'ma come get my car! lol.

Ratliff

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aut0tek &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"><FONT COLOR="purple"><FONT SIZE="12">wiggity wiggity wack!</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

just no
:walks away from computer shaking head:

 

I bet u dont like spaghetti as much as I do!

 

where is the upside down triangle when you need it

 

I think I have a good idea of where it might be... lol

Check all your orifices... especially ones u cant see.

 

j00 dont have m4DD 3rD g34R Vt3C y0!
until tomorrow

i am plenty aware of my sexuality and it is not anything near homosexuality

 

here's your sign, i found it!

 

bullshit I didnt have vtec til t/m... I just bypassed the Oil Pressure Switch. All u gotta do is ground it. lol.

Peas

 

glad to see that you got it working
i was just gonna find another oil pressure switch

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dirtyd463 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

haha chad is now a hero :chuckle: </TD></TR></TABLE>You just now have come to this realization?