Give me some ideas of things to replace or change out while I have an empty engine bay?????

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I would clean and paint the engine bay. I did mine while the engine was still in the car with spray cans and while I was doing it I was thinking......gee I wish I had done this while the engine was out. lol.

 

Motor mounts

 

Clean up the engine. You'd be surprised how good it looks after just some elbow grease.

 

Yea, good motor mounts and trans mount. Maybe a new accessory belt, change out the spark plugs?, clean the engine bay, clean and paint any parts you want. Like it was said above, you`ll be surprised with a little elbow grease how clean everything will look. Good luck!

 

Oil pump o ring, oil pressure switch, and all the gaskets.

 

i plan to do my rod bolts if my engine ever comes out, but after reading your sig, yours are probably already upgraded.

 

Heater hoses/plumbing.

 

I would clean the motor and motor mound if they are old. Spark plugs and wires and any mods that you wanted to do.

 

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Guys......the entire engine is gonna be brand new. LQ9 390ci....single turbo kit going on it.

I'm talking about things to do other than related to the engine or trannny at all......

I have a pretty good list so far.

Block is iron....maybe I'll paint part of it red.......to match the color of the car.

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While my engine is out I put a quick ratio steering box in, 3 turns lock to lock instead of the stock 4.5. I changed my upper and lower a-arms to tubular. Replaces all rubber bumpers, mounts, dust covers etc to Polyurethane. Dropped in lowered springs. Replaced my rag joint. Replaced all of my bolts with SS (kit from Year One), Flattened the firewall as shown in pic. Ummm That's about it.

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Pretty cool. I have all new bushings and figured not to go with aftermarket a-arms because so many people said it wasn't a good idea with a street car....

What kit is that for all SS bolts? How many get replaced? That sounds interesting.

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I grabbed some aftermarket because the engineering sucked back then as far as suspension goes. These will give me a positive camber when cornering. As far as the SS hardware its 450 replacements. Year One is where I bought them for about 240.00. The kit for your car may be different.

 

Thanks....I'll look into it.

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You realize that suspension/steering is way different between 1st gen and 4th gen...?

 

build up the tranny you plan to use.

 

When the turbo kit goes on.....a built 4L80E will be popped in......

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Having an engine bay painted professionally really shouldn't be all too expensive and makes a huge difference when you pop the hood IMO.

 

True. But I don't want to have to tow it somewhere, then tow it back to where it needs to be for engine install. Just thought I could paint it myself and make it look pretty good.

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Oh yes, its com a long way. Any change to mine would be a great improvement, i was just letting you know what I did. did you find the SS kit?