and we've experinced it. We fired up the motor and as we were adding coolant it was leaking out right below the water pump...mmmm fun. we pulled the compressor and alternator out to get a closer look and ill post results later....

 

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hahaha......fire was taken care of easily. now got other probs to deal with....

 

keep it moving toy factory boy.. your in cali so you got more daylight.. get back to work

 

uhhh fire times fire ^ 100

thats more fire than urs sprint

 

Well at least your an original!!!

Get back to work!!! The hard part has just begun!!!!

 

fixed the coolant leaks and did some more work.....seems i have another problem at hand...

 

Dude, get that puppy rolling already. You better have it ripping the 1320 by the time I'm up there in August again.....

 

hahhaha....we'll see we'll see

 

I've got a chance to get a used VQ for $400. Only 70k miles on it, out of a wrecked 96 GXE. Now my current motor has 120K plus miles to it and I'm getting the extra motor because I may shop around and get a blower in the near future. Nonetheless I intend on using the second motor only after my current motor quits (which doesn't seem like it will). Anyway are there any forseeable issues when swapping engines. I like to think that my swap would be a piece of cake when considering that my car is a 96 (SE) and the spare motor I'm buying is a 96(GXE).
Now I know you're running boost so that may be the cause of some of your problems, but aside from that if I were to keep my motor normally aspirated are there any real areas of trouble? Out of curiousity what would it cost to have an engine installed at a shop? (average cost if fine, and please make reference to any shops in the tri-state area (NJ, NY, CT)

PS: good luck with your swap, cant wait to see some dyno charts!!! (ooops get that thing running first)