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i might as well keep you all up to date with the progress of my swap.
ive finally got a donor motor now so im full pelt into the swap. motor has done 322xxxkm but at least i can get the conversion done now while im on holidays and find a good replacement later on.

yesterday i helped remove the ej out of the donor liberty and also got my ea82t out of the wagon.
as it was

almost ready to come out

the old man helping out. always seems to wander in and see what im doing- i think he's a closet subi lover.



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the EA wall

currently rust proofed and primed


im about to go out and give it another quick sand down and a first coat.

tomorrow im having another big day and evening on it so feel free to come along and have a drink at the wackyworkshop.

ill probs be finishing the painting and replaceing timing belt and water pump on the ej. and hopefully getting a start on the adaptor plate.

more to come as it happens so stay tuned

matt

Keep us updated.. would love to come and have a bit of sneaky beak! lol but you're too far...
Cheers
AP

Nice work mattyboy

shall give you a hand tomorrow arvo

and im finsihed with the colour now
its a bit off since i couldnt find my paint code and had to match it off my faded grill but its shiny and close enough.

looking good Matt! good to see you revived the engine bay at the same time

lookin good..should be comming round this arvo/night to lend a helping hand


dave

Nice work Matt!

I love the way you post for an EJ conversion and paint the engine bay at the same time, at least it will look good too!

Keep the pics coming, I love a good write up with pics - probabily why I do them too...

I, like you, think that my old man is a closet subi fan too - we got into a slinging match about his rangie and gail's brumby trying to out do eachother -> "the rangie has a V8" - "the brumby has a punchy yet economical 4 cylinder"... you get the jist of it.
He also checks out what i'm doing/have done to the different subi's around to see what's going on...

Hope its all smooth sailing.

Cheers

Bennie

yeah well its all part of my conversion process to do the engine bay too. more pics to come tomorrow when i do some adaptor plate stuff.

love the write ups, just wondering would it be possible when its all finished to take out all of the other comments and just leave the progress photos with commentary. I have been watching BYB's thread and would love it all to be one page step by step.
if ya get my gist

you could i spose but its not really a step by step. theres other information u would need to know that isnt shown by photos. some of this comes out in questions from others comments etc so it would be useful to leave in i think.

my motor now has new timing belt kit and water pump installed. not shown

radiator mount: bottom section of the support bar has been hacked out to fit the liberty rad. the second skin/ inner section in brown needed a bit of commitment to cut out.



close fit...

perfect fit. just needs the top cut out to access cap. unless theres a better idea.

start of adapter plate tracing

and cutting

roughly cut out the outside

What is the adapter plate made out of?
Cheers
AP

Aluminum, bloody expensive stuff these days!

checking for perfect fit.



final cut out. just needs holes tapped now

Got some good news for you Matt... your EJ engine harness is now chopped down and ready for installation. It's kinda late now so I will SMS you tomorrow, or should i say later today.

Dave

cool. just a few more things to do before i can install the wiring tho.

mig up some radiator support with some angle or somthing.
file flyheel holes
a couple touch ups with paint
finish engine mount wedges.
install engine

Looking good Matt!

I'd just like to say I'M SO JEALOUS!!!

Bennie

i was aiming to have the engine in by this weekend gone but you know how things work. so now ive only got my nights to work on the conversion and uni is back next week! so def got to get it done this weekend.
progress made:
layed out wiring through the car- thanks for the quick turnaround time subarino
made engine mount wedges out of leftover ally
drilled and tapped adaptor plate holes and bolted to engine
radiator support bar welded in

stuff still to go:
some touch ups with the rad stuff like cut a hole for the cap
a little bit of re painting
drill out wedges/ slot x member holes
file flywheel
put motor in
wire it up

wiring is threaded through the firewall

welded rad support (1.6mm angle steel)

im no vidler but it should hold

gave my lift blocks a quick zap too- this flat bar should help keep the captive nuts up where they should be.

if any WA members wanna lend a hand gimme a bell or come round A/H

I hope you have got that timing belt on right... lots have people have attempted them and failed. I have attempted it probably 4 times... suceeded once. Looks easier than it is in my opinion. It's going to be real difficult to fault find if your 180 deg out on it. Looks like your making good process... i hope everything else is smooth sailing.

Dave

going great guns matt! be joining the ej's in no time