I finally finished school, so on to the build! If anyone missed it, I found 3 metal chips blocking a lifter oil galley 30 miles into my fresh engine build last fall, so I've needed to tear the whole engine down to check for anything else in the oil galleys for the past 6 months, and just didn't have the time or money because of school. Anyways...
Today we pushed my car back into the garage, and got it up on the lift. After a brief inspection it seems that I have a fuel line that rusted through... yay... time to switch to plastic lines and throw the plastic ECO fuel tank in I guess.
But I got all the fluids drained, the front suspension, axles and subframe out of the car, and the engine is mostly unhooked. Tomorrow morning I'll be dropping the engine and transmission if all goes well.
All the gaskets I need showed up today, I've got a Dynomax Super Turbo muffler, a phenolic spacer for my HO intake manifold, ARP head studs, flywheel and pressure plate bolts, and a SPEC Stage 2 clutch and aluminum flywheel on the way. I think I've found the right Geo Storm tranny to get myself a 4.11 FDR gear set down towards Corning as well.
This should be fun
Paying someone to install parts and bragging about it being fast, is like watching someone bang your wife and being proud to raise their kids.
Looking good Tim. Do work.
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2004 Cavalier Sedan
