You can put it in from the bottom fully assembled! Use the cherry picker to lift the front of the car high enough then put jacks under it to hold the height. Slide engine underneath, use picker to lift engine into car. 30 minutes at most.
Nice work! Looking forward to seeing what you do with the engine. I'd be interested in buying your control arms if the ball joints are good... Minus pulling the engine (so far) I am following a very similar path - removing seats, AC, radio, etc. Good stuff!
I'll take a look at the ball joints when I can. The wheels can probably come off soon. The ball joints are pretty easy to rebuild with a kit from Rennbay. I could probably be pursuaded to part with them.
I guess you learned the hard way that you remove a 944 engine from the bottom of the car. There is no way to get it out the top without taking the engine apart and even then you end up damaging the car to wrestle it out. The first one I pulled out was from the top, I won't be doing that again.
@@77magnuss Thanks for your videos. I took mine out through the top without taking out the cross member. I had enough room. '87 NA. Removed intake manifold, fuel rail and both motor mounts and it lifted out. Hood not removed. Don't know why you didn't have the clearance. I know this is several years old, but I pulled mine 2 days ago. Thanks again!
@@ch-lx2fl No problem. I’m guessing the difference was in the engine puller. If it had a lower army you can probably get it higher before having to move forward, where I had the oil pan hit the crossmember.
An LS is probably better too but neither of them say "Porsche" on them. :) Part of this project is to see how much HP (I know it won't be much) we can get out of this motor. I know most people do a swap but I'm not ready to go down that road. I am however, taking the road less traveled...
It might be cheaper if I bought a motor and put it in, but it wouldn't be a completely rebuilt motor that will go another 200K miles. Also, I'm an NA guy. I want this car to be something I can drive at 10/10ths AND be reliable.
