Saturday, May 30, 2009

Still waiting for the intake

The new intake should be here next Thursday (I Hope!!), so I'm going to put the engine in, so all I have to do is bolt the intake on when it arrives.
I went ahead and bolted everything on that I could and I plan to put the engine in tomorrow morning.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The New Engine Is Here

Well, the new engine has been here since April 10th, which is around 6weeks now.
I thought I had every thing that I needed, but it turns out the new intake manifold doesn't fit the new engine and either does the old one.
It took me a few days to track down one that does fit, because the new engine originally had fuel injection and I'm putting a carburetor on it.
I ordered the new intake manifold from Clifford Performance out of California and I was told it should take around 4 weeks to get here. After 5 weeks I called them to see if they have an ETA on the manifold and they told me it will be another two weeks.
I'm expecting it to arrive around June 4th.
I'm going to go ahead and put the new engine in the Jeep and finish assembling it when the intake gets here.