Engine Update (w/ Pics [and an injury :P])

[DjLiquid]

Got the engine in March and here it is now:





Its coming along nicely. I may just be able to drop it in this week if all goes good. Speaking of dropping things, I took off the flywheel to replace and add a few things and I never thought the stock flywheel weighs 213098 pounds. I unbolted it and had my hand underneath it to hold it up. When It came fully unbolted, I thought it weighed about 15 pounds and the thing fell about a foot on to my middle finger. It landed with only about 2 of the teeth of the flywheel crushing my finger. It broke in 3 places and the finger is rock hard. It happened last night and the finger was black, blue, green, purple, with lots of blood coming out from under the nail =/. Today (26 hours later) it's looking a bit better. It's still about double the size of what it should be but it doesnt hurt, so thats the good thing.

[c-rad]

Ouch! Yeah, the RWD flywheel weighs 27 pounds. Deceiving, I know. When I first saw your motor, I was like, "WTF is up with that turbo. Then I realized its a FWD motor...lol.

[Dattebayo]

that finger would definately be of some use to the girls right now... lol

Is that a real FWD OEM ca18det? I didnt even know they were around...

[Seishuku]

Is that a real FWD OEM ca18det? I didnt even know they were around...

Yup, Bluebirds have them... They come in FWD and AWD IIRC.

[DjLiquid]

it was a RWD CA18 but Rafic converted it over to a FWD before he sent it out to me. The engine also came out of an automatic so I needed to mod it a bit so I could run the 5spd transmission with it.

[8ggalant]

Ouch! Yeah, the RWD flywheel weighs 27 pounds. Deceiving, I know. When I first saw your motor, I was like, "WTF is up with that turbo. Then I realized its a FWD motor...lol.

lol same here...

[undertaker]

Yup, Bluebirds have them... They come in FWD and AWD IIRC.

here's a photo of my old 4WD Bluebird CA18DET

bummer about the finger mate, I know I wouldn't want to drop a CA flywheel on mine!