It's alive
The new engine is in and running. Except for Martin's little oopsy with the pressure plate trying to hack off his thumb, it was a mostly uneventful installation. Helps when you've done it before. Parts were clean and I managed to get everything (and a few key spares) correctly ordered. I think we referenced the manual once the whole time - and that was just to confirm the head torqueing sequence.
Was smarter this time in that we completely dressed the motor out of the car. Hung everything we could on it down to the water hoses and all the intake and fuel plumbing. Really saved time and your back. Last time, much of that was installed after the motor was stuffed in the car.
Car has all of 50 miles on the motor so I'm going thru some very careful break in at the moment. Had to sort out a few little teething problems like a fubared rebuild on the P/S pump (oops...stuck in the spare one from the wreck this AM - no P/S sucks), a couple of loose bolts including a headpipe flange and going back one more time and getting the silly cam advance correct (Martin - neeeeew car - once it's dialed it should be really good!)
Driving report after it gets some miles under the belt. But...for now, it's good.
Last edited by Jeff N.; 08-07-2005 at 03:49 PM.
Bellevue WA
90 535iM - not much stock remains. 3.7 liters, ported head, cammed, 3.73 diffy, M5 brakes, MAFed, yadda yadda yadda
86 Porsche 951 - Track Toy
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