Was time to refresh the Challenge car's engine, so spent the weekend with only a hand full of metric sockets and wrenches, so the 818R sat idle and served as a holding area. Joe Caropepe (big thanks to Joe for his help and his starter knowledge) came over to give me a hand, started around 10AM and were finished around 4:30PM with only minor things left to do. My spare engine was refreshed with new crank, all new bearings, valves and new balancer (28oz imbalance).
Out with the old
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A few swaps of front and rear items
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In with the new
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Need to check everything twice and will fire it up tonight. I'm using the FMS SS shorty headers and bought new motor mounts and was surprised when the headers went on with out any modification of the passengers side motor mount like I had to do to the old motor mount, was kind of scary as I was expecting a battle.