beaterX project thread

[Mark Leasure]

Originally Posted by scheides

I wanna go fast!

Agreed.

Sorry about the knee, good luck on the recovery.

[turbotalon1g]

porsche time? built audi? lol.

[scheides]

Out of town for work all week but two small victories:

One, after an MRI the doctors confirm my ACL is NOT torn, just bruised knee ligaments that need time to heal. 2.5 weeks after the fall I can now mostly make it up or down a single flight of stairs without wincing in the entire way.

Two, made the haul down to MAP and picked up my (expensive) care package.

In this box is an OEM shortblock with the stock pistons/rods removed and MAP Ultimate Duty rods and Wiseco pistons installed.



Walked out and loaded up by MAP CEO Chris Carey himself--thank you sir!



I went with @murlo26 and @Knoxville to pick up murlo's new 6266 setup...thank you so much for the ride and the help guys! I can walk but I'm still a gimp.




I have to say again, MAP had this motor ready for me, start to finish, in under two weeks. The car runs and drives pretty good still but I know its only a matter of time before something bad happens. I've literally gone through 7 quarts of oil since the head rebuild in December, maybe 2000 miles ago:




Aaand all I need now is some break-in oil from O'Reily's. Got everything else I need here except a car (to drive while beaterX is down), some steaks, pizza, and beer (to bribe anyone that will help me with this swap), and some nice weather (after the spring cruise!).





Lastly, it's been mentioned to me multiple times that the spark plug failures in the 4b11 are due to a bad PCV setup as the one side goes right into the runner for cyl 1....not sure what to do about it yet but I can't ignore this since I've had two engine failures and both were in cyl1. Anyone else onboard with this? Any more discussion out there about it?

[4seasons69]

Wow 7 quarts in 2k miles is a lot! Also I'd be willing to lend a hand if you need it when you're ready to do the swap

[Mark Leasure]

Good deal on the knee! Cool pics of the process, nice pic of chris too! Let me know what nice weekend your planning on for the swap.

[Halon]

Looking good. Amsoil I see, I'm making the switch to that (from redline) for all my driveline. How you liking it in in the engine?

[goodhart]

I have a bunch of time off before the cruise if you need a hand. I have 7 out of the next 9 days off.

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Halon

Looking good. Amsoil I see, I'm making the switch to that (from redline) for all my driveline. How you liking it in in the engine?

Until the spark-plug issue I had no issues, I will let you know once I yank the existing shortblock apart

Originally Posted by goodhart

I have a bunch of time off before the cruise if you need a hand. I have 7 out of the next 9 days off.

And I work every day from now until then. I'm hoping to get my trans jack built (out of 4x4's) and rotors turned this week but that's about it. I want a functioning car for the cruise, especially now that I can mostly shift the thing (it was my left foot)

[JET]

I have a real tranny jack if you want to borrow it. And it is awesome that there is no structural damage! Guy at work blew his knee out last weekend, tore his miniscus and ACL. Not fun.

[scheides]

Originally Posted by JET

I have a real tranny jack if you want to borrow it. And it is awesome that there is no structural damage! Guy at work blew his knee out last weekend, tore his miniscus and ACL. Not fun.

Hell yes! I would love to use it! How portable is it? Any chance of a handoff to spazzy at work and he can swing by with it? I'll return the favor for both via some beer....

[JET]

It is fairly portable, about 3x the size of a regular jack. I could get to to spaz no problem. When do you need it by?

[scheides]

Well I have spare wheels and Friday off so I think Thursday night/Friday will be when I get started on this thing.

Fun fact though, I'm an uncle! Unfortunately my new niece is in Fargo, so probably headed up there Friday night to visit family.

Sigh, I swear I'll never get this project rolling! If anyone's bored Friday morning, I'm going to get started around 8am...txt me or just swing by!

[evotuner]

wait til after b4b to start on the car!!!

[Halon]

Nice, we're heading to Fargo not this weekend but the following. Nothing wrong with Fargo, nice place to visit

[JET]

Your tranny jack is enroute! Spaz has it now.

[scheides]

Ugh, rug pulled out from me again, leaving for F-town early. Evo will just have to wait. I feel proving grounds looming now...

JET--THANK YOU! I'll snag it and secure it before heading out of town.

Anyone have a slide hammer w/ 12mm thread on the end I could borrow next week?

[scheides]

Nothing can stop me now, this project is rolling! I'm on the road for the weekend into next week, but before I left I threw down and made some progress





The plan is to strap the subframe, motor (manifolds, turbo, downpipe, fueling all still bolted up), trans, and xfer case to the trans jack, undo the 4 frame bolts and 2 side motor mounts, and drop it out the bottom. It will be interesting trying to get the chassis high enough to scoot it out but I've seen it done and I'm thinking this is the perfect task for 6 or 7 volunteers?

Probably make some light progress middle of next week and then probably try to drop it out thurs/fri/saturday-ish.

[cmspaz]

Glad I could at least add one thing to your list while I was over. I guess I should have thought ahead and not come in my work clothes, could have been closer!

[scheides]

All good, it's far enough along, I just wish my air compressor was not busted. Probably going to have to make that a priority once it comes time to disassemble the powertrain.

[turbotalon1g]

I have a engine holder. Basically a real version of Jim's 6x6 wooden contraption, if you or anyone ever wants to borrow it.