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It sat for so long we had to dig it out of the dirt it was sitting in. \u00a0Rats and other animals called the engine bay home.<\/p>\n
The old engine ready to come out. \u00a0Blower was taken out prior to pulling the engine.<\/p>\n In the valley of the engine is where home was for all the critters. \u00a0Some of the wires on the harness were chewed up thanks to our friends. \u00a0The old engine was torn down for scrap metal.<\/p>\n Crankshaft chewed up.<\/p>\n The main culprit of the low compression. \u00a0Rings\\ring lands destroyed.<\/p>\n Our engine replacement came in the form of a brand new MMR longblock. \u00a0The new block is aluminum vs cast iron to save a tremendous amount of weight. \u00a0Updated PI heads were added along with larger valves and Comp Stage 1 Cams. \u00a0Diamond Pistons and rods, along with a forged Cobra crankshaft were added. \u00a0Wrinkle blue powdercoated Trick Flow Valves and Trick Flow Intake Manifold was installed. \u00a0C&L throttle body was added as well. \u00a0We went with Siemens 60 lb\\hr injectors and 90mm Lightning MAF. \u00a0BBK shorty headers bolted to the heads which then lead to a Bassani X-Pipe with high flow cats and finally to a Bassani catback.<\/p>\n We added two Nissan knock sensors to monitor for knock.<\/p>\n LJ & Jonathan carefully tape up the valve covers prior to dropping the motor.<\/p>\n While we had the motor out we upgraded to a tubular K-member and front coilover conversion. \u00a0This saved us over 80 lbs of weight. \u00a0The K came with all the parts for the swap and included tubular a-arms.<\/p>\n While things were moving along on the engine, we sent the V1 head unit to 928 Motorsports for a rebuild and upgraded to their billet wheel that looks very similar to Garrett’s GTX wheels. \u00a0We left the base pulley size as we were not planning on running an intercooler.<\/p>\n With the new intake manifold we had to move the alternator out and away from the engine. \u00a0We also wired in our Meizre electric water pump at this stage.<\/p>\n We were set back a few days. \u00a0Turns out that the 1999 timing cover is different than the new engine’s 2000+ timing cover. \u00a0This forced us to buy a new bracket from Vortech.<\/p>\n Finished product. \u00a0An Anderson Powerpipe replaces the old generic accordion hose for better breathing.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n