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@TiGraySpeed6 (I wonder if he'll ever see what I did to his car) I guess decided to leave the rear engine hanger off, wish I woulda spotted that before I was ready to pull the engine. Took all the exhaust mani nuts off and pried the manifold just enough to get the hanger on that I found in...

Lost the Harbor Freight lottery on my shope crane... one of the holes in the 1/4" steel is too small for the supplied bolt. I found a decent replacement locally, but the sun was going down and I'm a weak man, so I left it for another day.

Everything comin apart smoothly. It's gonna take a long time to put it back together tho. Lookin forward to dealing with whatever is going on here.

I know I started this thread red-hot, but work is taking over my life. I've only got 1 day off over the next 8 days, and prolly 6 more days off in 2020. The engine is 80% of the way out; I was waffling over breaching the AC, but it's gonna happen, so the old engine will be out on Tuesday...

This should put some wind in my sails this weekend.

Engine is in the mail. Did the first hour of tear down after work. Smooth sailing til I looked at the radiator drain plug... I said to myself "that's gonna snap right off" ... so of course it snapped right off. Yep.

No track/strip/auto-x, just a fun commuter. Engine being wrapped up, will start tearing the car apart this weekend.

06 MS6, all the mods, BNR S3, spicy E30 tune, blah blah. Car has been off the road for a long while because it has a P0303 and constant KR as soon as the knock sensor activates, probably broken ringland judging by the endoscope. The COVID bullshit and getting laid off finally cured my car...