I moved the cars so I can get started o the swap.

I started to pull stuff off the saffron car. It was a real pain to pull the radiator because it was smashed between the frame rails. I has to pry metal back to remove it.

Wow, crazy you don't have a lick of snow there. I have about 3" or so at my house.

Huzer wrote:Wow, crazy you don't have a lick of snow there. I have about 3" or so at my house.

We got a dusting but that's all. It's already gone.

The motor is in the silver car. I still need to finish bolting it to the tranny, install the accessories, intake, wires, hoses, etc. As well as the bevel gear, axles, driveshaft, and brakes.

Almost there. Fluids, a last look over, driver's side axle and brakes, and bleed the brakes. And finally start.

The car is running and driving. I actually drove it to work today.

Overall the car is doing great. I need to still swap the front strut assembly over from the saffron car, The front passenger side strut is making a ton of squeaking noises. The dash has a flashing arrow but the transmission is shifting fine, I need to run the scanner over lunch. Overall I can't complain because the car has no leaks, temps are good, no check engine lights, etc. I was a lifesaver having two cars because I was

What I ended up swapping:
- 2.3 HPT motor (complete)
-Angle gear with collar sleeve (looks new)
-Both front axles (rebuilt)
-Driveshaft (rebuilt)
-302 mm front brakes (rotors, calipers, caliper brackets, hardware, and SS lines came from the saffron car; new pads came from the pewter car)
-ABS controller and front sensors (cleaned)
-Fuel pump relay
-K&N air filter
-Front passenger side hub assembly
-motor mounts
-I also replaced all the fluids in the motor, transmission, and angle gear.

What's left to do mechanically:
-Vented rear brakes including SS lines
-change oil in rear
-swap the front strut assemblies
-change the spark plugs
-replace the HID headlight bulbs (ordered)
-change out the exhaust clamp between the downpipe and the rear
-Fuel filter
-Torque rod mount

Wow congrats and good work man! Hard work but it looks like it's paying off nicely.

Dwduc wrote:Wow congrats and good work man! Hard work but it looks like it's paying off nicely.

Thanks. It was really hard work, my body says I'm not doing that again.

Congrats! That’s a lot of work accomplished there.

I swapped out the front strut assemblies so I now eliminated the bad suspension squeak. I did discover that I will need to get new front sway bar links. I also swapped the transmission TSS which got rid of the fault code. I do still need to swap out the throttle cable and kickdown switch. I replaced the HID Lights and any other dead bulbs.

What's left to do mechanically:

-Vented rear brakes including SS lines
-change oil in rear
-change the spark plugs
-change out the exhaust clamp between the downpipe and the rear
-Fuel filter
-Torque rod mount
-Replace transmission seals between trans and angle gear
-replace sway bar end links

The gas leak is fixed. The leak was a combination of the pressure hose o-rings and a loose fuel tank lock ring.

I also swapped the throttle cable / kickdown sensor from the parts car. I didn't realize how bad the cable was until I pulled it and and it came apart in pieces.

I have two codes coming up. EFI-444 and EFI-422. Accelerometer and Atmospheric Pressure Sensor. I'm going to go ahead and pull both from the parts car and swap them in. At least they are both easy to do.

Looks like I'm going to have to get an Atmospheric Pressure Sensor. The one from the parts car was broken in the crash.

I swapped out the main window switch as well as most of the dash switches. The windows switch was acting up and not always working. The dash switches didn't have working lights. I also adjusted the headlights.

I'm going to try and get some more kinks worked out with the car today as well as start pulling stuff off the parts car to sell.

I tried to drive the car on Tuesday morning and the alternator died. I barely made it home. I'm going to swap out the alternator with the one from the silver car on Friday. So much for installing the alternator that had the Bosch replacement sticker on it.

I had the tires replaced over the weekend. I had pirelli cinturato p7 all season 215 55R16s installed on the 16" Meteors. Everyone wasn't kidding when they said the 302mm brakes just barely fit.

I took the car in for an alignment today. The car is riding so much better now. I still need to replace the front sway bar endlinks though.