Thread: Help Please!

2000 and 99 should be pretty close and as long as you used a gtp pcm then you shouldn't be giving it too much timing.

Ok..different idea.

When you get the motors installed what do you do to prime them before starting them up?

once you get the engine in the car, if its been sitting for a long time its super dry of oil.

so you do the oil change and filter, fill the filter with oil, then crank the engine a whole lot before adding fire to it. crank it with the plugs out so it spins faster too, crank for 15 to 20 seconds at a time, 10 times or until you see oil pressure. this will lube the engine, aka prime it.

Well In that case I wasn't But I drove the last motor right at 100 miles With no problems/Weird noises at all but when I got into it (Maybe 1/2 throttle 3/4 Boost) It spun the rod bearings as with the first motor

this is a shot in the dark but maybe since your doing a top swap the engine has alot of carbon deposit from running on 87 its whole life, these deposits could cause per-ignition wich is hard on your bearings, obviously people topswap all the time and it works fine but I thought I would mention this. Is there a possibility your bearings got rusted from sitting in water