Engine Installed

With the weathermen predicting New Year's Day rain, I had originally planned on working on my new 911 puzzle instead of my actual 911. But this morning did not look threatening, so I decided to take my chances. I thought I could at least make my final preparations for the engine install. But finding little that really needed doing, and seeing the sky clearing, I decided to go for it.

I had to roll the car out of the garage a ways, and then jack the back WAAAYY up - I needed about 3 feet of clearance to get the engine under. Those heavy duty SUV jackstands I bought really came in handy. That was no big deal for them at all.

After rolling the engine and transmission underneath, I dropped the car down a few inches, but then needed to raise the engine up at a slight angle to get the four mounting points (two at the front of the transmission, two at the rear of the engine). I was able to get the floor jack under the engine pallet, and with the engine balanced in the middle, it wasn't too big a deal to tip it to get all the mounts aligned.


It was a little tricky getting the tranmission bolts in. The new bolts I got were the correct length, 65mm, but they originals were tapered at the end, while I'd just gotten normal bolts. Turns out the taper was necessary to keep them from bottoming out in the blind mount, so I had to grind the ends. Then they fit fine, and Katie came out to lend a hand, and snap a few pictures.


5 hours later, our car's got an engine! Over the next few days I'll be hooking up a lot of things: electricals, oil lines, fuel lines, etc... But a start-up isn't far off now.