Fantastic job Midori,
I just started my motor swap yesterday and was double checking your pics to ensure I could in fact pull the motor and leave the trans in the car.... Hopefully tonight the blown motor is out...

 

Wow, just a amazing thread! Much props to you for doing all the work yourself. The car is beautiful! Well done man, well done.

 

pulling he motor out and not the trans is easy but getting it back here took a little bit of work. Have to be careful with the oil filter housing and the wires and ac lines on the passenger side to slide it in. It will hit the side of the frame rail a little bit but you'll just have to shimmy the motor and trans around to get them to fit and line back up together.

 

thx man! Appreciate the love

 

Figure I'll post some more pics since I haven't in a while, and a little before and after of the brakes

 

therealjgall is selling his full lip kit, you should probably look in to that.

 

HOLY COW!
I have been away from A-Zine for far too long!
This is such a great build, love all the attention to detail and it just looks great!
Great job man!
have some updating to do myself!

 

its an aftermarket kit, i might get one like that but for now im gonna stick with no lips lol. it will be super low once i get all that on there. and plus id have to buy more paint to finish the lips so it will stay stock for a while lol thx for looking out tho

 

Great build. It all looks awesome

 

Been off the forums for a little while, great to come back in and see some new builds, well done!

 

Well as many of you previously said the trans was next to go and it's true lol the trans is gone but I plan to rebuild it myself, seems to be the cheapest alternative lol so again

here we go lol

 

About to pull the trans and get started lol this should be a 3 day project if the rebuild kit comes in Monday lol

 

Any plans to swap an AV6 in the future? or possible 6 speed swap is in the works? Nice looking ride man!

 

the av6 was the plan but was planning on doing it at a later date, this trans was supposed to last till next year lol so I figure I will just rebuild since the av6 trans is around 1200ish lol and this rebuild will be around 350, and if it works hopefully I'll get a decent life out of it lol

 

And I would love to do a 6 speed swap but my wife's left knee is messed up and about to have another surgery and we need the daily to remain auto for now lol

 

Sounds about right, At least you are well informed man! I hope your rebuild goes well and keep up the good work!

 

Thx man! I'll post more pics on the next couple of days as I do the rebuild, I'm following along with another member who did a rebuild as well lol

 

Got the trans oil drained and the downpipe off along with other miscellaneous parts last night. Hopefully have the trans out in a few hours or so this morning lol

 

Also does anybody know if the trans to be pulled out without the motor or do they both have to come out together

 

Trans drops alone but you should support the engine from the top.

 

Yeah and I just got it out lol, that thing is stupid heavy lol

 

Now on to my favorite part, plus I've broken a few tool already lol they are kobalt so no biggy but still sucks having to leave and such but steadily making progress

 

Got the rebuild kit in today so it's go time, and let me say getting the trans on that table by myself was a feat lol

 

Weird, I was under the impression the B7WA rebuild kit came with 5 main sets of friction and disc plates... Is there a set missing in your kit?

 

Yes you are right Skirmich but it looks to me that there's two sets stacked in the bottom right. The kits I get have them like that as well.

If you have any questions while rebuilding let me know. I have done a few of these.

 

I'm having trouble getting the larger 34mm nuts off the shafts in the first cover but I'm getting a big impact tomoro to get them off so I hope that it works and that the rest of it goes smoothly lol

 

I'm in the process of doing the AV6 swap myself. Got everything undone and subframe dropped. I was able to crack open the seam between the trans and the engine, but I can't seem to get it to pull apart completely for it to drop. Am I missing something, tried with a pry bar and everything but I get scared because I don't wanna mess up the engine side. Any tips?

 

did you pull the 8 10mm bolts from the torsion plate? Not sure if that's the right terminology but the plate that connects the engine/crank to the torque converter?

 

^ "Flex-plate"..
Manual transmissions got Fly-wheels.

 

Huge props to you Midori

 

I think I might really be crazy for trying this ����

 

I know I couldn't do it.

 

All clean and ready to reinstall all the new gasket etc lol

 

The easy part is to disassembly it, The fun part comes when you have spare parts after rebuilding it

 

Yeah I've been taking my time lol, there is so much going on in this thing it's insane I have gotten a lot done but still have a ways to go, letting the clutch and friction disk soak in atf over night and come back to it tomoro after work then I should be able to put all the cases back together and get ready to reinstall in the car haha but well see what happens this week, still have to order a new torque converter as well but no biggy.

 

 

Did you remove the old disks and plates already? how is 3rd gear clutch pack looking?

 

Haven't gotten to the 3rd clutch set yet, did the 1st/2nd clutch set tonight, 3rd is tomoro

 

Make shift press to get the big springs out and change the o-rings lol

 

good ole american ingenuity. love it