Merry Christmas everyone! Happy New Year etc. etc. etc.~
Hope everyone had a great holiday, I finally made a bit more progress this week and finally got the Chevy motor to fit into the Boxster chassis! Still a lot of work to be done but definitely reached a milestone~
Oh but it was not without its trials and tribulations
When I went to put it in the first time I still had some trimming to do so I basically got the front of the motor about where it needed to be and figured out what I needed to cut... done and done! Well upon my second attempt I got the two front bolts lined up, but the rear was nowhere close, I mean like 4 inches off. SHIZA!!
Took it back down and tried to figure out what happened. Went to look through my "instructional pictures" Renegade sent me and first picture I found discouraged me quite a bit. Actually it made me feel downright stupid and made me want to give up on the whole project
Looks like I had put the motor mounts on the motor backwards
Not a happy camper
Well after shouting a string of obscenities better then the kid from A Christmas Story I calmed down a bit and started looking at it all again... Let me present to you exhibit "A"...
Well at that point I figured out pretty quickly what happened... It may be hard to tell but in these two pictures I was sent the freaking mounts are on in different configurations?!?!?$!?#$@!$#@! I was still pissed, but at least I felt better about it not being my fault!! I'm sure there is some reason for it, LS1 motor vs LS7 but come the F on man. Oh well.
So after some re-rigging of the mounts I figured out where things were supposed to live. Third attempt going in and BANG!! LIKE A GLOVE!! Almost as if it was put there by the factory! I didn't bother putting in the center cradle as it all has to come back out but it sure felt good having it all come together overall fairly smoothly.
I must give credit to the engineering of the kit, it is tight but fits right in!
I made a few videos, the short one is done but the longer version will take a bit longer, here's a link to the shortie:
http://youtu.be/g9Um4PM9tz4
Here are a few pictures of it tucked in... i'll be back later with the other video!!
THANKS!!
J
