So, a buddy of mine who used to be a BMW tech offered to help with my motor drop & install. He’s a big car nut and wrenches on a bunch of different platforms, but mostly BMW still. Anyhow, a friend of his is just starting up a small dealership focusing in unique cars, and his shop had a nice lift left from the previous tenant, so he was nice enough to let us use it over the weekend.
So, we did:
motor drop
turbo swap to 7-Blade 68mm k16’s with 1bar w/g (basically compressor wheel and inlet from TiAL A28 Turbos)
carbonetrics triple carbon clutch & lwfw
pinned coolant lines (common failure point in the meitzer gt1 motors)
injector swap (40# to 60#)
fluids for:trans/oil/coolant/ps
replaced most all the check valves and some vacuum lines for good measure
motor mounts & trans mount
deleted SAI (just removed pump and plugged up air pipe but left other lines in place
will probably be deleting EGR if I swap to a fender mount intake system).
But the pics are where the fun is. Definitely didn’t take as many as I’d like, but we were wrenching most of the time.
Getting Started
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Start of Day 2 (after we made the furniture dolly into a trans jack carrier)
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Wife swung by and brought sonic shakes and the puppy
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And there she sits (getting ready to go back in at this point iirc)
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Clutch Packs going in
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Pinning Coolant Lines:
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Meth Bungs from Howerton Engineering:
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Wife said I had to shower before she would hug me. . . . I don’t see why?
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I don’t have a lot of service records for the car, but I can tell the motor has probably been dropped before (factory manual says motor comes out for clutch, most people don’t though). Probably for a clutch job (70k on it). But it was another stock clutch and would have been in need of change again before too long. It definitely couldn’t of handed the new turbos.
All in all it went pretty well. Like I said, still have to wrap up a little install stuff and fill with fluids. We spent several several hours just making trips to his house or mine to get one tool here or there we didn’t have (buddy’s shop just opened, and its more dealership than shop so almost no tools there). Then also spent a good 2hrs trying to figure out how to remove the power steering reservoir b/c of the “quick disconnects”. They work the opposite of every other german car either of us had ever seen and are very brittle. Bullshit part I’m still ticked about, but it was a 10min job after finding a youtube video about it. The Factory Manual made it sound like the functioned the opposite way than they actually do.
But man, after the weekend, I feel like I know the car SOOOO much better. Really glad we got the opportunity to do it. And honestly, after doing it once, it really is not a tough job. The right tools and still a fair bit of time. But I could probably do the whole uninstall right now with barely referencing the manual and just checking the torque specs when going back in.
It’s pretty cool, the porsche motor you can change the power steering pump, AC pump, and alternator all right there in the back of the motor without dropping anything and barely having to even remove much. WAY easier than most cars, especially the B7’s. And when dropping the motor, you can just keep the AC pump in the car, so you don’t have to drain and recharge the system, it’s effectively not even touched.