Veriest1 wrote:So have you played any golf recently. I still want to see those clubs you made.
Course is closed until late April I believe, we've been getting craploads of snow =/ Clubs are at our rented garage I believe, somewhere in the back of the shop right now as they were used once in Dec I think, I'll have to find em.
Ok, so Hockenheimring opened last month, so did the Corollas motor. I toasted it on lap 3. With our poor dilapidated Corolla out of service, we decided to look around for a new motor. It was just our luck that we happened to come across a GTi-16 in a junkyard with a pretty clean looking 4ag. The replacement began...
Jay and I woke up rather late the first day, so we only planned on removing the old 4ag that day. Both rocking monster hangovers, we were rather the chipper bunch that day =/
We pulled up into our bay and began unloading the car and getting out our tools and such.
The motor we harvested from the GTi-16
After unloading, we started unhooking everything from the old motor so we could get ready to hoist it out.
It was at this time that we noticed that just about everything on the transverse 4ag's were different than the longit mounted one. With very little time left in the day, we packed up and planned to swap everything over and drop it in the next day.
12pm is the earliest we can get into our shop, so right at 11am we arise hung over once more to make it to the shop on time. I slept in the bathtub that night, so I was feeling extravagantly crappy.
Right after we arrived, we went to work pulling everything off the long block. EVERYTHING had to go. Injectors used different connectors, same with the distrib, alternator uses a different bracket, water pump and lines are different, etc. Too lazy to splice and rewire, we just transfered it all, even though it meant we had to re-time it, I was far too apathetic to bust out my multimeter and electrical tape.
After hooking up everything to the new 4ag, we went to go bolt the tranny, but then noticed another annoying difference. The rwd tranny has an alignment pin and the transverse motor has the SAME damned alignment pin instead of a hole, so we were left with deciding which pin to pull. Flipped a coin, came up heads, so we went to pull the pin from the motor.
Oh, HELL NO says the little pin that could. After 15 minutes of heating and beating, we said screw it and decided to lop it off with an angle grinder. We could only get so close to the pin with the grinder we had available (without removing flywheel/head), so we went to work griding off the pin on the tranny and drilling out a bit of the pin so that the tranny could mate to the motor.
After a bit of struggling with the tranny (due to the alignment pin crap) we got it on, but I also split the hell out of my index finger while being adamant that we could fit it on with out drilling. No band-aids in sight, I made a mechanics bandage, a paper towel wrapped around the cut with a rubber glove slapped on top of it to keep the towel on.
The motor had a bit of liquid where the spark plugs were, so we blew it out before checking the plugs.
After we got her all together on the ground, we slapped her on the cherry picker, tossed the lil sucker in the car and began hooking her up to start her for the first time.
(you can see my mechanics bandage =/)
After playing with the timing a bit, we finally got her running fine and were able to drive out that day.
One motor a year, I'd say this is a pretty spoiled Corolla =P