So I got a(nother) motor. It's out of a 97 GTP that was wrecked. It had 41K on it and damn that car had to of been fubard. They just cut the whole front of the car off and I got the whole cradle with the motor/trans...BUT unfortunately the wreck was bad enough that it broke the trans case...sad face.
So here it is before I dug into it.
Front cover...
Alternator...
Valvecover...
A/C Compressor...
Coil packs/ICM...
Blower...when I first saw this it was one of those pause in disbelief moments...then I grabbed the bolt and it thread perfectly fine and tightens down perfectly fine so it's not biggie...
Trans case...
And heres why I don't like dex-cool...this motor had 41K on it and the coolant looks like this. Yes the system was exposed to air but who really cares. Just because the system is exposed to air it shouldn't turn into an acid lookin sludge...
Engine cradle...
And at the end of the night I ended up with this...
Some of you may be wondering what my plans are. For right now the whole motor is getting torn down and hot tanked and the balance shaft deleted. I'll get all new bearings and rebuild it. I'm swapping the Camaro top end back on just to get the car running. I'm throwing in my L36 pistons because an 8.5 compression N/A car would be epicly slow.
Later on down the road i'm going to topswap again and put the blower back on. Dave at TEP plans on doing a batch of blower that will fit in Fbodys so I plan on getting one from him.
Well here is my first real legitimate update since Jan 21st.
