bubbaisme:
2006 Pontiac SC L32 V-6 from a Gran prix with 14,500 miles documented w/ CarFax. Came out of a wrecked rental car in Miami. Sat in salvage yard for 4 years.
bubbaisme:
before mod of engine bracket. Sliced off heater connections leaving just the belt tensioner.
bubbaisme:
cut off non useable part with high quality Bi-metaloy blade in high quality hacksaw handle.
bubbaisme:
before mod. Bracket with rusty hole is a mount for Pontiac. The 3 holes are the coil mount on a Pontiac. I don't need them.
bubbaisme:
after mod to a bracket. Can't just remove the whole thing because it is the mount for the belt tensioner which I do need.
bubbaisme:
L32 belt route SC belt, on the right side, is same as stock. Engine mounts bolted on. Alt. bracket and alt. bolted on.
bubbaisme:
flushing out cooling system--yes that is waste pipe from a sink, some very rusty stuff got flushed out. The engine sat at the salvage yard for 4 years. Ran water thru it for 30 minutes.
bubbaisme:
oil filter adapter from a Buick Park Avenue. Oil filter has to slant backwards to clear new serpentine belt routing. 1st picture has stock Pontiac oil filter mount.
bubbaisme:
oil filter adapter installed after a day at the junk yard finding it. Rust on block and pulleys cleaned up and painted.
bubbaisme:
engine install. Spec clutch and flywheel bolted up awaiting transmission. Starter on engine is a 9 tooth gear and is wrong. Caused 18 months of hard starting. 11 tooth starter on it now, which is correct for the Camaro flywheel.
bubbaisme:
engine installed the first time. Very easy to get in with 3 people doing it. Engine has to go quite high and then have the gearbox slanted quite steeply down to go in smoothly.
bubbaisme:
It's out. Took back out because I could not get any oil pressure because of faulty oil pressure relief valve.Gearbox mount is on upside down.
bubbaisme:
Supercharger is getting better but still more to do. Polishing the SC was fairly easy. I used some small buffing wheels on an air powered die grinder for some but mostly Blue Coral on a rag by hand.
bubbaisme:
heat shields from above. Since cut down smaller and edges fitted with trim like the hood edge in the cockpit.
bubbaisme:
heat shield for passenger side with O2 sensor coming thru it. Has since been made smaller.
bubbaisme:
heat shield for passenger side. Tabs slip on exhaust studs and get a second nut to hold them on.
bubbaisme:
heat shield for fiberglass hood. Headers put out gobs of heat. Template for shield-drivers side. Since made smaller so the shields do not contact the frame rails.
bubbaisme:
This might be the final configuration for the routing of lines and stuff under the hood. Blue line going thru the firewall is for boost gauge. It is teed off of line to fuel pressure regulater.
