Engine Installation, Question Options

[Randal]

I am going to be putting my engine in by myself, so trying to get everything lined up so it will be a smooth process.

My throttle bodies and fuel rails are wider than the stock sheet metal, so will be removing one of them so I won't have to use crazy angles (again) to get the engine back up in there. My engine is about as high as one with Webers.




I've built two large wide ramps and extra blocks so that I can have the rear wheel about 14" off the ground.

Don't have my car here so can't test it out, but figured all you jack stand / car ramp guys will know if that is high enough for my engine to fit under the bumper.

If not, some more 2 x 6's are going to get cut up for blocks.

[J P Stein]

Without going out to my cold garage, I recall they are made out of a basic 16 inch max cut.......rip a 4 X 8 plywood sheet into 3 ea.16 inch wide strips....less the kerf.
This makes 18, 16 inch (approx) squares. Inside each box is a X cross brace top to bottom & 2X2s in the corners.
Screw & glue the whole works together, some HF swivel casters and ya have 3 boxes.....less the X brace which requires more wood. IIRC, it took 2 sheets of 3/4 plywood. They stand about 22-23 inches tall with the casters......IIRC. It's snowing
intermittently & I'm staying in the warm house.
The 16 inch squares go at the top & bottom and the rest get trimmed to fit as required. When your done you'll have a BS degree in plywood management. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

They are stout.

[Randal]

Without going out to my cold garage, I recall they are made out of a basic 16 inch max cut.......rip a 4 X 8 plywood sheet into 3 ea.16 inch wide strips....less the kerf.
This makes 18, 16 inch (approx) squares. Inside each box is a X cross brace top to bottom & 2X2s in the corners.
Screw & glue the whole works together, some HF swivel casters and ya have 3 boxes.....less the X brace which requires more wood. IIRC, it took 2 sheets of 3/4 plywood. They stand about 22-23 inches tall with the casters......IIRC. It's snowing
intermittently & I'm staying in the warm house.
The 16 inch squares go at the top & bottom and the rest get trimmed to fit as required. When your done you'll have a BS degree in plywood management. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

They are stout.

I'll bet they are stout. When it gets warm enough to make the garage trip please show a picture of how you did the X brace. Thanks.

[J P Stein]

I'll bet they are stout. When it gets warm enough to make the garage trip please show a picture of how you did the X brace. Thanks.

The braces are permanently enclosed in the boxes so discription will have to do.

Once you have the 4 sides on the bottom of your box, measure the inside width.....prolly around 14-1/2 inches. Rip 2 of your 16 inch squares to that width.
Find the center of that width & layout a 3/4 ( actually 11/16 cause 3/4 ply ain't) inch slot X 8 inches deep & centered on that CL. Cut it out on 2 pieces and shove them together.....slot to slot (tight fits are gud)....now you have an X brace.
A couple 2 X 2s where they join for screwing/glueing purposes makes em' solid and locked within the box.

One needs a good table saw with an accurate fence.....a cabniet shop is the perfect place to find one. I built mine.......the build discription would run to pages if I could remember how I did it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) WAG bout 6-700 lbs.....but it's on casters. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

We ended up with 3-4 inches of snow last night so I'm taking vacation today.....to shovel my steep driveway clear.....bummer.