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[MT-Getto]

Drove the project home today and got the EA>EJ adapter yesterday. I bet the trail of smoke is still lingering My buddy following me pulled the pin on his fire extinguisher in preparation.

[MT-Getto]

Clutch and adapter installed. I am going to try to drop her in tomorrow morning or if I'm feelin' frisky I will start tonight.

[MT-Getto]

I tried to get the motor bolted to the tranny for 2 hours before going to bed last night! The first thing I did when I woke up was go out to the garage and put the clutch alignment tool into the old clutch disk. The old one uses a larger input shaft!!!!! Dammit!! I hope O'Reilly will take this clutch back after I got it all dirty and scratched.

[MT-Getto]

Just got back from the parts store with the 3rd clutch. TO bearing and disk are right but now I have the wrong pressure plate.

[MT-Getto]

Okay then! Fourth time was a charm with the clutch. The EJ22 slid right in there with the right parts, took less than 10 minutes.

[Mikewire]

Nice work Trev. So school me on why you swapped an EJ22 in there? More displacement?

[MT-Getto]

1.8l SPFI 90HP/101 lb·ft
VS
2.2L MPFI 133HP/137 lb·ft

Once the 2.2L was introduced, there was no-longer a low range trans offered. And I just like to swap engines

[MT-Getto]

Made some great progress the last few days. Cooling system is done, fuel is connected, power steering is good to go, clutch and throttle work, and I rigged an intake for it. All thats left are the electronics and exhaust (the hard parts).

[DynoJetta]

...And I just like to swap engines

Now there's an understatement if I've ever heard of one!

I bet if I would have employed Trevor for swapping my 5.0L in my bronco, I'd be driving it right now! Instead, I took long enough to think "well, since I'm at this point I might as well...."

Looks good Trev!

[MT-Getto]

Thanks Josh

Picked up a couple of odds n ends from Sparse at SunRunner today and if all goes well I should be able to fire this thing up by Sunday. Tomorrow is wiring day.