| After the trunk and the interior had taken a lot of care it was time to move forward to the engine bay. This original 3.3L reliable six still worked very well, didn't burn a lot of oil or anything like that. It had more than 200K miles / 300K kilometers on it. Somebody had already disabled the smog stuff but about all the pieces were still in there. This project took about 6 months to carry out, and ended happily to the day of the startup of the "new" totally rebuilt engine, which was a C8 casting block as described in GEN1 section of the site. This original block was used for GEN2. | |
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The engine bay as it was at the time of purchase in Aug 2002. |
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Early days of July 2003, the engine bay is water blasted "clean" and ready to be disassembed. |
A few hours later... |
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...this had come out. |
Here the engine bay has already been sandblasted and primed with epoxy paint. |
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Covered up and waiting for the finishing white paint. |
Painted. |
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In parallel to engine bay work the engine and all related parts were cleaned or sandblasted, epoxy primed and painted to blue, black and silver. |
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"Give me back my Powerplant!" |
"You've got it" |
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