I will size down all my photos to be nice BUT if anyone wants a larger version i can email you one!
Here goes...
The engine is from a 1996 Buick Riviera, this is the only thing i dont have any pics of!! (ok its not a TOTALY documented swap, i dropped the ball on the deinstall from the Riv)
It came out pretty easy through the TOP... wich is how the guy helping us at the yard wanted it. Just pull all the tranny mounts, totally pull the passenger side engine mount from the frame. UNPLUG your harness from the firewall, then trace the cars side of the harness back to where it enters the firewall and cut it there... You will be left with a 2 foot section of the cars side of the wiring harness... This will be usefull because you can splice all this to the fiero and still unplug the engine for various reasons.
Here come the pictures... To start here is a good shot of a 96 Riv that frightningly looks IDENTICAL to the one my engine came from, Damage and everything!!
Once you rip out your engine it should look like the following! :thumbleft:
Here is a no cover shot.... im debating still moddifying the cover so i can use it... Good for a SLIGHT attempt at sleeper vehical, or a more stock appearence, however when i go to show it off, id like to remove the cover so she looks like this. (technical note, if you dont have the shiney grey thing on the top there you got screwed!!)
Here is a cool shot of the engine and her future home!
Ok, ok, now for the fun... I pulled the charger because A; I wanted to polish the outside and make it look WICKED umongst the rest of the engine wich i want to paint black.... However, powder coat on this thing is THICK and i mean thicker then George Bush's head!!! SO i was gonna wire wheel it off with a dremel (nice for hard to reach stuff) now that i have a few baron of paint spots im stuck going for it, so i may try sand blasting OR chemical stripping, any suggestions are much loved! And for reason B; I found some porting instructions online to make it a little more efficient... so ill give that a shot too!!!
I had to pull my blower off to do the above fun stuff.... if you cant do that yourself, your a :tool: and shouldnt be around a car!! (ok yea i didnt take pics of that either, i JUST decided to do this step by step thing.
Here are a few pics of the series II blower as it sits on my counter!
^^ Above you can see the stock outlet :withstupid: were going to port her out some to make her look a little bit more like the ZZP outlet show here...
I have also heard about porting the throttle body AND blocking the EGR inlet both of wich i will research and post more on here soon.
More to come soon.... So much time and so little to do, wait, strike that and reverse it!
