GTi Alive at Last PICS
As said above, today we got up at 9am to collect an engine crane to do as much as we could to the GTi. It was raining heavily and spirits were not high.
Dropped the engine and gearbox to the floor with the crane, then lifted the car up to drag it out.
It got pretty pimping at the back
With both engines side by side we started swapping over everything (Quite a lot as it turned out). Gearbox, pulleys, clutch (The one in the red GTi was nearly new so installed that), inlet manifold, throttle body, water and oil pumps and lines.
Joe was disposing of some of my scrap metal for me
Head off the original SR20 and apart from a gap small in between piston 1 and the block nothing seemed to be amiss. I was not happy at this point and very dubious about whether the new SR20 would work.
Although i did find a use for the old block.
Gearbox on
Dragged the lot under the car and prepared to lift into place, lining it up using raceworxs crane operating skillz.
Wiring the engine loom up
Then attempted to start it, I wasnt holding my breath as I turned the key, expecting the same thing to happen as before, but without any hesitation the SR20DE roared into life!
There was much rejoicing.
At this point we were all shattered as we had been working for 3 days on the car, so we tidied the lot away, scrubbing the floor to get rid of the oil stains etc.
All that remains is to reconnect everything, buy new tyres, MoT the thing and enjoy it at last.
Major respect to everyone who turned up and helped. We accomplished an awful lot as a team
