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I’m working on a rear coolant flange as a school project, Attempting to have it hug the cover as close as possible and still retain the coolant sensor and both outlets.
Great thread--hats off to those of you with the vision and tenacity to get this far.
Some mad skills on display with CAD, and some encyclopedic memories for the nuts and bolts of making stuff work. I can't wait to see and hear one of these puppies run!
(In a lot of ways this thread is the antithesis of most engine swap threads that start with bold pronouncements and then peter out as technical problems defeat them...)
I’m working on a rear coolant flange as a school project, Attempting to have it hug the cover as close as possible and still retain the coolant sensor and both outlets.
Fantastic! Please keep me in the loop. What’s your project timeframe? I need to get something together soon for mike’s car to dyno. If we have to do something temporary like what Overboost Drift team did, maybe that’s a possibility. Otherwise, I’m probably going to just have to carve something out of billet.
I've been working 80 hour weeks so I've barely been able to keep up with the thread, I'm happy to see that progress is being made! I was able to get some work done the past few weekends rebuilding my 07K (cleaning everything up, replacing bearings and seals, painting the block, swapping the head gasket for the TTRS version, etc) Finally got to install some of the swap kit parts, and wow they look good! Its amazing how much better this engine looks compared to when I got it. @hinton and @vt951 I remember you guys mentioned a standalone plug and play ECU in the works, do you plan on running that in mike's car to dyno? Or are you going to run the stock 07K one? Also, after doing the head gasket and timing chains, I'm realizing that I probably should have waited a while to do so. As it looks like putting the upper oil pan back on is going to be a bit of a nightmare with the lower rear timing cover on the engine.
Also, roughly how much is it going to cost to have the oil pan done?
I don’t have all the costs yet, so I can’t give a solid price yet. It’s not going to be cheap due to the large number of parts and operations, but believe me, I am trying my best to keep it as reasonable as possible.
I've been working 80 hour weeks so I've barely been able to keep up with the thread, I'm happy to see that progress is being made! I was able to get some work done the past few weekends rebuilding my 07K (cleaning everything up, replacing bearings and seals, painting the block, swapping the head gasket for the TTRS version, etc) Finally got to install some of the swap kit parts, and wow they look good! Its amazing how much better this engine looks compared to when I got it. @hinton and @vt951 I remember you guys mentioned a standalone plug and play ECU in the works, do you plan on running that in mike's car to dyno? Or are you going to run the stock 07K one? Also, after doing the head gasket and timing chains, I'm realizing that I probably should have waited a while to do so. As it looks like putting the upper oil pan back on is going to be a bit of a nightmare with the lower rear timing cover on the engine.
Awesome progress, especially considering you’re working 80 hrs per week (which is crazy on its own).
@hinton and @vt951 I remember you guys mentioned a standalone plug and play ECU in the works, do you plan on running that in mike's car to dyno? Or are you going to run the stock 07K one?
We will be running the PE3 standalone on the dyno
for both our cars. With mine being NA, and Alan’s being turbo, we will have both base maps covered for people. My car will be the development car for the swap harness as well.
06-19-2019, 04:11 PM
