I hear you man! I have been polishing every penny i get this last month or two.

 

Quick question. The pullers i got is to short to pull the sprocket is the any way to get it off without one?

 

Get the right size puller man, it's the only way to get it off the right way. GL

 

Ok i figured that got to wait until tomorrow morning to get it.

 

Good to see some updates on your progress i have to wait untill i bring my car out of storage to start the swap. Post more pics if possible to help alot of us other members when we get around to doing it! I got a used kit and harness but the harness has been cutout of the car. Atleast the wires are pinned so i just have to copy everything going into the PCM and add in the cps wiring and look at the Cxxx connectors if they have to be changed up.

 

No problem man ill try and get some cell phone pics asap.

 

Well i got it almost done. I was trying to get the cam sprocket on and then it started raining. I was having trouble getting on on too, the water pump drive gear wasnt wanting to line up at all.

 

just remember to tap the cam dowel pin in so it wont rub on your new cam sensor housing.

 

It wasn't to long it was short enough.

Well other than putting the hub and water pump and tightening a few bolts im done. That was simple enough.

 

Glad to hear it was simple. Looking forward to putting mine one once the block comes back from the machine shop later this week.

 

Everything minus the hub and balancer is back on. Sorry i wasn't able to get pics it is really cold out right now and i was trying to be quick.

 

Finally all back together.



Now time to work on the harness and get some plug wires or shorten mine, and CLEAN.

 

Nicely done! how hard was the install over all? im currently waiting for my parts from mike he shipped them out today just not the harness yet when do you think youll fire that puppy up?

 

When i get the harness done and send the pcm off for a mail order tune at speed inc. It was pretty easy only problems i had were not having proper tools(hub installer, puller, ext) and getting the key out. Other than that it went really smooth.

 

awesome! im getting really antsy to start the tear down on my car. you have a PM aswell.

 

mine went smooth when i did it except the crank recular wheel needed to get a lil laythed off because the recular wheel and the crank sensor wasnt lined up. i talked to efi and they said its diffrent for each crank. and my driver engine mount was in the way for the driver side knock sensor so i had to trim the mount down a lil..

 

Looking good man! I too am very antsy about getting my kit in im just not lucky as you guys to either have no snow or local storage to work on it. Have to wait till spring to bring it out of storage so i can my butt to work. Im going to try and find a cheap harness to try and see if i can do it on my own before i have to send it out if i get totally lost. Use that guide that Merim posted about the re-pin as im sure it will come in VERY handy when you start it!

 

Yea im using his thread also. The more i look at it i get it. But i didnt get lucky ether i was outside doing mine. May have not had snow but it sure was cold at 30is.

 

Why are you putting a knock sensor on the drivers side? It requires just replacing the ones in the passenger side with the proper 96-97 knock sensor.

 

i got told too by someone cant remember ether tpis, efi connections, my harness came with the wires for both sides. so i put them on both sides. but you only need the passanger one. have you done this conversion....