Progress slowed a bit today as I had to head into the machine shop to finish my flex plate adapter. It turned out good, but if I had it to do over again I would have made it a bit longer so I could leave the ring gear on the flex plate and still access the bolts. It's 1.5" thick right now and with the inset of the manual flywheel and the offset of the ring gear in stock form it only left a about .2" between the two which made it impossible to get bolts etc in. I'd also start with 5" stock instead of the 4" that I used...the walls got a little thin, but I think it should be fine. I can make another in half the time if this turns out to be a problem
Here it is:
I also worked on the oil filter relocation. I had a 10an flex hose made that I hope to run from this block down to a flange on the filter housing. I've heard other have problems with these fitting a leaking...hopefully it works
I did get time to stab the motor back in and tack my motor mounts. I need to work on a better system for getting the motor in and out...just seams to take more tipping than I would like.
Here's the motor sitting on mounts:
I'll take some pics of the mounts when I pluck the engine again to weld them. I hate using a torch near the frame and didn't want to grind the old ones off so I ended up being able to reuse chunks of them. On the drivers side I just added a bit and on the passenger size I did a fair amount of cutting. Pics tomorrow when they are dressed up a little.
Tomorrow I think I am going to start on wiring as the person buying the old 1fze wants it Thursday. I want to make sure I keep the right sensors. Right now I'm thinking that's just water temp, ac water temp, and oil pressure. I'll do more reading tonight but if you can think of others let me know.
I'm trying to decide between one of two methods for doing the wiring. One would be to cut off plugs as I unplug unneeded items (mainly efi). Then I would just remove all wires without connectors from the plugs that go into the ecu. The second method would be to look at the pin out on the wiring diagram and start at the plugs at the ecu and just cut wires based on position and color following the wiring diagram. I see advantages to both...anyone else have an opinion?
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