blakern

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Got my Vig 3200 a week or so ago and my plan is to get it installed this week. Im going to take my time and work on it a couple hours every day after work until its done.
DAY ONE:
-Dropped tunnel brace
-Removed/hacked out Y-pipe
-Dropped tranny pan, drained fluid, and replaced filter.
-Removed drive shaft.




Post day two pics tomarrow nite. Later..

SSmoken

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atleast you have a lift. me and my dad did it on jackstands last week and it was a pita !!

FLT

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Very cool that you have a lift in your garage. I noticed that the door seems to be missing. You must live in an area that you don't have to worry about someone steeling your stuff out of the garage.

Badazz 97 TA

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when you get to removing your torque arm. instead of struggling with the bolts. un bolt it from the rear end(two 21mm bolts) and then unbolt the trans tailshaft(4 15mm bolts) from the transmission and slide the whole thing out as one peice.

blakern

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Thanks for the advice. Thats the very next thing im going to do.

-Freak-

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Don't even bother with removing the tq arm. Just unbolt it from the tranny and let it rest against the floor pan. It will go quicker and you won't have to hassel with r and r of it.

Mr. Brett

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Yeah, it's easier to just unbolt it from the tailshaft. The clamshell mount is a little tricky the first time, but it's cake as soon as you figure out how it comes apart.

Beaflag VonRathburg

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Jealous = Me. I wish I had a lift in my garage. It wouldn't clear the ceiling. All of the sudden a car would be slammed through my bathroom with a tub on top of it.

Circle-D

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A lift in the garage rocks!! Very cool.

Chris

blakern

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Yea having a lift is pretty sweet. Makes things a lot easier. The main reason we got it was for storage but its really nice when wrenching on things to. I think it cost around 1800 shipped and took me about 2days to fully install. The cables and hyd. lines took alittle time and so did drilling (16) 3/4 holes in the concrete for the anchors.

blakern

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DAY TWO:
-Unbolt torque arm
-Disconnect elect. connectors, vent hose, and cooler lines
-Unbolt starter
-Remove converter to flywheel bolts
-Remove bellhousing bolts
-Pry, wiggle, and shake transmission loose from motor
-Lower transmisson and remove stock converter





Day two went very smooth with the help of a good friend.
Now that my trannys out should I just slap the new converter in and call it good? Or should I have the tranny beefed up alittle bit? Is there any inexpensive things that I should consider upgrading now that the trannys out of the car?

jsteele90

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shift kit? deep trans pan?

SSmoken

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looks like its coming along great. dont forget to get a trans cooler.

PontiacFan

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Hmmm, 'subscribe' to watch the progress, ...
Now that you know how to do it, ..., Wanna do another?

blakern

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Yea I got the B&M supercooler. I think the 24,000 one.

blakern

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Hey I didnt see that sweet 10th hawk of urs last weekin. Didnt bring it out for cruise nite?? There was a guy from Kansas that brought his 99 30th anniversary WS6 up. He was really cool. If you really want to put a stall in ur hawk I could probably help out.

deftunes

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sweet job, keep us posted!

PontiacFan

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Rode it downtown to the Post Office lot around 6pm, & it sat until 1am when I came home, ...

Seen yers, the 30th, couple black ones, quite a few Camaro's cruisin'.

Yea I have the 'verter, but need to pick up a deep pan & a cooler yet.
I've got a bunch of Comp Cams parts & acessories to do a cam swap one of these days. Still looking for a deal on an oil pump.
Not sure when it'll all get done, ..., Might be winter schedule stuff.

blakern

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Sweet!! I figured that u would leave ur hawk stock. What cam u got for it?? I want to put a hotcam or sumthing like that in mine next spring.

blakern

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No progress today guys. My fiancee works at a local transmisson shop and im going to have them look over mine while its out of the car. I think their going to look it over on Friday so maybe I can start throwing it back together this weekend.