1 Day 2 Guys 2 Car hoists and one forklift - WIN!

Here is a story of right place at right time.

My mate had a promo vehicle for his work that was L98+harrop 2300+ built A6 Box that was due for trade in. Now why would you trade it in with all those goodies when I had a L98+turtle cover+ A6 stock?
Exactly what we thought!!! SO off we go from Brisbane to Phillip Island (where the guys from WA Improved Production were racing) chuck the standard on the car trailer back to perth and fly over to meet it there.

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Basically in one day we are going from this :-

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to this

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Dismantling begins....

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1) Disconnect fuel line

2) NOTE for next time - Take off fuse box lid, undo centre nut, lift whole board/fuses up and unplug the whole engine wiring harness - saves undoing all the fiddly clips to injectors, sensors etc.

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3) Undo gear selector underneath.

4) Undo steering wheel rod from top of box

5) Drop exhaust, undo rubber donut - tailshaft

6) Take off front wheel calipers

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7) Undo top strut bolts

8) Take off front plastic bar and aluminium bar underneath

9) little bits and peices I have forgotten about (please resist the urge to tell me - lol)

10) Lift the car up and stick the forklift under

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11) support the gearbox with hyd lift

12) Undo six sub frame bolts

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13) Lower forklift and gently back away

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14) Dump bog stock POS on ground like a discarded rag (lol)

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15) Repeat above to remove blown engine but with care and love and then once removed take it outside to clean all nooks and crannies that you will never see again but at the time you are too giddy like a school boy to care or notice..

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16) If you see a hole like this might as well fill it!!

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17) Lift new one into place - gently, carefull - lol actually very easy we used 2x plain 3/8 bar up the holes of sub frame to locate it in body holes then locked in place with front 4 bolts. See how clean the back of the heads are?? Whooor lol


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18) Connect the dots

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19) Take it to WA Performance to tune it - (Shameless plug - but credit where it is due!)

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20) Smile at the result

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21) Oh is that the Nullabor Plains? Is it a great big long straight bit of road with zero traffic on it??

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22) Back in Brisbane - last 800 kays did all the damage (stone chips, hit extractors and zoorst etc) courtesy of the NSW state government road dis-improvement program (sorry but OMG to travel 2000+ kays incident free and then cross into NSW and bang)

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23) Washed, polished, waxed and in the garage!

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nice story hahaha

gotta be wrapped with that hhaa

It was a lot more fun than going from this...

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to this...

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:bawl:

that does not look good. hope everyone was ok.
the engine swap is a great bit of work

Very nice -

How does that go with VIN/engine numbers?


Hos

Went in to Dept Transport QLD Pineapple street..filled in form.. they came out verified engine number..bingo bango changed on rego.

Everyone was okay after hitting the wall, hans device (?spelling) and roll cage did the trick. Sore nuts from the five pointer but!!

so the dept of transport didn't question the blower and otr ?

haha epic!

Best use of a forklift you will ever see :)

That is Amazing!! hahaha... :goodjob:

What happened to the Harrop supercharged car? Did the NA setup just go in that and it got sent to a car yard somewhere?

Thats a great writeup mate haha
Bet your happy with the result :)

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so the dept of transport didn't question the blower and otr ?

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Nope......opened the hood and showed them where the engine number was...no fuss at all

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What happened to the Harrop supercharged car? Did the NA setup just go in that and it got sent to a car yard somewhere?

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yes N/A went straight in.. stripped the stickers and off to second hand land.

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Originally Posted by BanPC

Nope......opened the hood and showed them where the engine number was...no fuss at all

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hmmm , somethings a foot at the RTA's , as a mate went in with a custom built street machine
and was met with the same common sense approach , he was out b4 he went in ,
he was nearly going to go back in and demand his whole lunch hour get taken up , lol