engine swap

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by yaris9876

I assume you had to dis assemble and remove the entire front suspension??
about the AC..you had to remove that smaller radiator??? It looks like you can just detach the hoses
from the AC and its free of the motor...??
There is 1 motor mount on the passenger side..is the other mount the trans mount under on the other side??

I assume its much better to drop it than raise it,no??
If you went to a indy shop locally and hired them to do the whole thing,what do you think they would charge??
Anyone know of a shop that would just help partially anywhere in the SE USA??
btw do these look like real injectors to you??? 4 for 100$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Denso-23...p2054897.l4276
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about the water damaged engine...it was probably one of the hurricane Sandy flooders..there was thousands of them that got written off....you can run the VIN to check on them...most of them
would be in the NE but I imagine they spread them out among the parts yards a bit to get rid of them
all.

Swapping a motor is not that bad of a job. I am not sure what a shop would charge, but my bet is they would hit you for at least 8 hours of labor.

I prefer to lift rather than drop a Yaris engine as dropping it requires dropping the subframe. You can unbolt the AC compressor from the engine (and leave the hoses connected) to avoid having to evacuate and refill the AC, but if you are swapping the engine with a lower mileage one, swapping the AC compressor and alternator with newer ones is not a bad idea.

For the motor mounts there are the two that you mentioned, plus a third, rear one, that mates the tranny to the subframe.

My water damaged purchase was wrecked long before the hurricane. It was just removed from the car and stored outside, where it was not covered well enough and water entered the differential of the AT and wicked into the valves via rags that were stuffed into the intake ports.