Magnum swapping the 72 Scamp!
As for magnum swap, I feel like I got a bit lucky in some respects and found a donor 99 durango someone was parting out near work and scored the whole engine and wire harness for $250. It had 130k miles on it but seemed decent and I was hoping to keep the bottom end in tact and just do it cheap.
I never planned on going this far engine wise but it (of course) doesn't feel fast enough anymore having owned a handful of 12 second and better street cars. So... F it. haha
Brought it home one night after work fully intact with only hearing it crank but never fire. The donor car was too torn apart to hear it fire, just getting it to crank was a lot of work.
Beginning tear down
Looks like this pie has been in the oven too long.
First indication this is going to start costing more $. haha
Heads off and cleaned up a bit.
On the positive cyls look OK with some good crosshatch
Heads cracked (because of course they were).
Some more delicious pie crust under the rear freeze plug.
More teardown in next post.
As for magnum swap, I feel like I got a bit lucky in some respects and found a donor 99 durango someone was parting out near work and scored the whole engine and wire harness for $250. It had 130k miles on it but seemed decent and I was hoping to keep the bottom end in tact and just do it cheap.
I never planned on going this far engine wise but it (of course) doesn't feel fast enough anymore having owned a handful of 12 second and better street cars. So... F it. haha
Brought it home one night after work fully intact with only hearing it crank but never fire. The donor car was too torn apart to hear it fire, just getting it to crank was a lot of work.
Beginning tear down
Looks like this pie has been in the oven too long.
First indication this is going to start costing more $. haha
Heads off and cleaned up a bit.
On the positive cyls look OK with some good crosshatch
Heads cracked (because of course they were).
Some more delicious pie crust under the rear freeze plug.
More teardown in next post.