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Trans has arrived! I went with a Stage 4 T56 Magnum. It is a new unit that has been torn down down and had carbon blocker rings installed and bronze

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Old 12-13-2017, 10:55 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Trans has arrived! I went with a Stage 4 T56 Magnum. It is a new unit that has been torn down down and had carbon blocker rings installed and bronze fork pads installed. It's rated for 900rwtq! This one also has a Fbody tailhousing installed for ease of install into the FD chassis.



It fit in the trunk of my civic just fine ha!



Clutch also arrived, so I installed it onto the engine. I went with a Mcleod RXT twin disk clutch. It's supposed to hold 1000rwhp and drive like stock. It sure does look pretty tho.




I went with a Fidanza lightweight flywheel. I am eager to see how fast I can get this engine to rev!


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Gotta get this thing in here!
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Mounted the lifting bracket to the valley, and started mating the engine to the trans. This took a little bit longer than anticipated, but after some will force I made the two go together.







Had some buddies come over to assist





Big grin on my face! this was a happy moment!


It's in!!!



Badass pic I took:
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intake installed:



Large amount of heat wrap on the fuel lines and clutch lines:






Trans mount fitted up:


Motor mount look really nice, tightened down the biscuits to get the engine height correct.


Shifter alignment, needed to cut the trans tunnel a bit. Went with MGW



Also started installing some accessories, picked up an alternator bracket and a nice power steering mount. I will be running Fbody accessories on the LS3.

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Starting fitting up the power steering pump. Since the Fbody power steering pump will over power the factory Mazda steering rack, I bought a Turnone pump reducer to try to get the flow to a more "light" feeling level.



Installed and lines ran:




I also mounted the extended clutch bleed line and mounted it to a bracket on the intake.



Shifter hole block-off black installed and knob fitted. Went with a C6 shift knob, should look factory-like!

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Filled the power steering system with Driven oils power steering Fluid:

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Will be using an Odyssey PC925 battery, and fitting it under the bin behind the passenger seat.








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Made my own wire terminals for battery relocation.





Started wiring in the engine. I went with the PSI conversions wire harness. Quality seems spot on and price is great compared to all other harness manufacturers. I 3D printed a hole size reducer so that the 2inch firewall grommet on the harness would mate up to the existing 3inch hole on the FD firewall.







Heat wrap installed:


I was also able to get the samberg radiator installed:

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Keep going with it. You are doing all the right things. Glad to see what you did with all the heat wrap. Better to do it now than a after thought. Look forward to seeing the finished product.
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Dream project car for me. Nice to see things being done right.
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dream build for me too. Amazing.
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Amazaballs! Very skillful work you're doing there.
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