The car came to me in with an interior/exterior virtually unblemished, the engine with 115k miles on it, and the transmission slipping.
Having looked at the engine, I realized the all to common problem, The LIM Gasket was leaking. I tackled that first, I rang a friend from work to help. How hard could it be? So we began by removing the fuel rail...
#2 Injector opening.
So, what to do? Well at the very least, I needed a new LIM Gasket. So off came the M90 in preparation for the Gasket replacement. What do I find?!
Well it was a bit messy.
M90 2000 SSEi
L67 Lower Intake Manifold
Now it was time to take off the LIM, and what a treat that was. It appears that the Gasket had been leaking for sometime, this is what I found.
Mmmm, Dexcool is Wonderful.
It was at this point that I realized the severity of the leak. This motor was likely going to need a complete refresh in order to be in top shape again. So I came home a little down, but not defeated. I started doing some research on a rebuild. I stumbled across a few web sites, and, saw some things that caught my eye. On one of the many "post your own video" websites I came across a Turbo'd Grand Prix. After watching that video, I knew that the Bonneville I had acquired was destined for better places. I had to Turbo it, I was now on a Mission.
I rang my friend from work and told him of my Idea. He was almost as excited as I was when I decided that was what I was going to do. This engine needed to come out now. Around 8:30 on a Saturday night we got started with the removal, less than 5 hours later, engine/tranny were out.
Rad Support/Bumper removed.
What Engine?
Now to get the Engine disassembled.... more to come!
Russ
How does the radiator look inside?
to everyone, it can't come to soon and I have a long road ahead of me, I hope ya'll will come for the ride!
If you're going to put this much work to have an awesome turbo Bonneville, no reason you can't cruise in comfort.