Consider welding in a bung above the oil drain plug to put an oil temp sensor in later. Easy to plug it if you never need it. PITA to add one with the engine installed. Drilling into a “live” oil pan has never given me a warm fuzzy even though many have done it.

 

not a bad idea at all

 

Good idea, ordered the Mazdacomp mounts, I even noticed the stock mounts were busted when I pulled it out, then promptly forgot, lol.

 

Seam welding, if your able. heat wrap things on the hot side. Wire tuck, shaved bay, repaint

 

Motor is here, but my mounts won't be in until next week. I guess that gives me this weekend to mount the clutch, replace a shitload of gaskets and drill the hole for turbo return.

 

As the engine bay is empty , clean hell out of it ! Touch up and repaint as necessary.

 

Yeah that's the plan for this weekend while I'm waiting for motor mounts. Lots of gaskets, seals, turbo drain, timing belt and water pump, and clean the engine bay.

 

If anyone said "Front crank seal" you win a prize!



At least that's my best guess as to where the funk is coming from.

 

That's better. My timing cover gasket is fucked though so I'm done for today. Have to run to the parts store this weekend and pick one up.

 

Anything glaringly wrong with my oil pan tapping order?

Barb is 3/8 npt to 5/8 hose barb, tap is 3/8 npt, drill bit is 37/64.

 

So, did my dumb *** hit the pickup tube or is this just a baffle?



Looks like I might be dropping the oil pan

 

Tube

/easy build

 

That's what I was thinking, guess I'll pull the oilpan and replace that tube. At least that will make sealing it easier

 

Don’t use a barb fitting for your oil drain. Use a -AN fitting and get good quality braided line.

 

Yeah now that I've fucked it up, I'm just going to take it and have an AN fitting welded on. Might as well do it right since the quick and dirty way failed.

 

Okay this is much better.

 

On the chassis side of things you may want to trim the shelf by the firewall for better downpipe clearance.

 

Yep that is the way to do it. What I generally recommend though is welding in a bung on the pan, then screwing in a fitting. This way if those threads ever get messed up you can swap fitting easier.

 

+1 on the shelf trim. This trim made nice room for a 3” DP and screamer pipe. I have pics of the pre-cut line if you want them.

 

You don't even need to trim it. Get a BFH and just beat it down into submission. Much cleaner with no metal bits going everywhere.