A Fabricobbler's Guide to the Turbo Buick Galaxy- Cutlass Rehash

[81cutlass]

Fuel filter and feed and return lines are in.

I left the extra hose in the engine bay. When I get the SFI engine in I'll figure out the final length and cut and install the hose end.

I have a little more work under the car, need to swap the modified th250 xmember that I made work with the 2004r with an OEM 2004r one and weld in my cross member extension. Pull the torque converter bolts and exhaust and then move up top and start pulling wiring and hose to get the engine out.

Am I the only heathen that doesn't give an F about using AN wrenches and just mars them up without a care in the world?

Honestly they really don't mar up that much using steel wrenches (shrug)

Sending Mr. Quadrajet to the gallows!

 

[Northernregal]

Fuel filter and feed and return lines are in.

I left the extra hose in the engine bay. When I get the SFI engine in I'll figure out the final length and cut and install the hose end.

I have a little more work under the car, need to swap the modified th250 xmember that I made work with the 2004r with an OEM 2004r one and weld in my cross member extension. Pull the torque converter bolts and exhaust and then move up top and start pulling wiring and hose to get the engine out.

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Am I the only heathen that doesn't give an F about using AN wrenches and just mars them up without a care in the world?

Honestly they really don't mar up that much using steel wrenches (shrug)
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Sending Mr. Quadrajet to the gallows!
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It's not marring fittings, it's giving them character...

 

[81cutlass]

If it keeps snowing maybe Ill have all summer to get this swap done....

 

[motorheadmike]

If it keeps snowing maybe Ill have all summer to get this swap done....

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18°C and very windy here today.

 

[liquidh8]

I wrap some Teflon around the fittings I care about. I have AN wrenches and adjustable, TBH, they may the fittings too.

FWIW, I am running double racetronix turbine pumps in my wagon, with a 1/2" SS hard feed, and a 3/8" SS hard return. Second pump comes on at 10 psi.
I imagine if you want to step it up, the second in-tank pump would be fine.

 

[81cutlass]

Was out of town all weekend but did the 'hour a day adds up' thing tonight and pulled the old th350 modified cross member out, cleaned the grease and oil off the actual 2004r cross member, and welded the home made frame extension.

I need to get a new roll of .030 wire as the .025" roll I used tonight has never worked well in this welder and I'll have zero luck trying to weld upside down when I put the extension in.

This is what 18 year old me did under my dad's fabricobbling mentorship. Needed a crosmember, had zero chance of finding one and didn't want to spend money on a Gforce one when I was 18 and cheap/broke.

New extension. $8 of 2" angle with 1/2 cut off each leg welded into a rectangle with some holes

 

[81cutlass]

Burned in the xmember extension, painted the xmember and installed.

Going to start removing the carb turbo tomorrow! Zoinks!

Shes a show car now! One part got cleaned and painted! Haha

 

[81cutlass]

Pulled the hoses, exhaust, wiring, AC, trans and motor mounts tonight. Just have the capillary tube temp gauge and oil pressure tubes to remove which are buried in the harness that runs under the plenum which is a pita to get out.

I'm probably not going to run a mechanical oil pressure gauge or temp on the new engine anyway, but I don't just want to cut it when it works fine. I'll be running a ECM that will have aux inputs so I'll just feed analog signal into there and rely on the gauge cluster for a close guess at temp and oil pressure.

Maybe I'll get the engine pulled tomorrow?

 

[81cutlass]

Bam!

Got the carb turbo out.

I need to order new motor mounts and spend some time cleaning the under hood and checking the exhaust manifolds on the efi motor.

Did the classic Blake442 tie the hood to the back of the car with a ratchet strap (I used the trailer hitch instead of a wagon roof rack but same thing) allowed the engine to come out without pulling the hood.

 

[81cutlass]

For the first time in my life I am not being a TOTAL tightwad-

The motor mounts on the carb turbo and SFI engines aren't broken, but even if I replaced them on the carb turbo when I built the car they are 13 years old (and I was even cheaper then so I highly assume they are just stock OEM 1980 mounts), and I know I didn't buy a set when I put the SFI engine in the Wagon, so I am likely dealing with 40 year old mounts. OK, I'll replace them.

I am OK spending more than $7 for some rubber OE style replacements so I thought I would look for aftermarket ones.

Look at aftermarket ones. COUGH. Nope. Going with $7 ones...