Should I buy this Cobalt

[YelloEye]

Seems to be missing the motor mount...

 

[SonicStatic]

Yeah I took it off to try to make pulling the motor easier

 

[YelloEye]

Ah, will best of luck wrenching today.

 

[SonicStatic]

Here is the donor car

Almost ready to come out

Shes out!

Now I have to switch some parts and it will be ready to go into my car. My boss said it would be easier to get the tranny and engine aligned out of the car so he said to pull my engine and tranny out together then put the new engine and tranny together outside the car. Would this be easier or just a lot of extra work?

 

[Bass_Waves]

Easier probably. Or same work. Work in open space or enclosed

 

[YelloEye]

Easier out of the car, that motor is supposed to be dropped with the whole sub-frame out the bottom.

 

[SonicStatic]

Its alive!! My brother and I ended up putting the motor in without pulling the tranny or dropping the sub-frame. Instead we pulled all the tranny mounts and got it over to the driver side enough to get the engine in and aligned. Started right up after we hooked the vacuum line up that we missed. No check engine lights either!

 

[TxSilverBalt]

WOW!! Nicely done.

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[SonicStatic]

Going to detail the car today. Shes a mess from the previous owner

 

[YelloEye]

Hah! Epic! Congrats man.

 

[Bass_Waves]

Congratz. That's so cool!

 

[SonicStatic]

Decide to post some more pictures of the swap. Oh and the previous owner gave me maintenance records and he had a new clutch and fluid put in 15,000 miles ago and he paid the same amount for that as I paid for the car.

Getting ready to pull the old engine

Its out!

No motor!

New engine going in

Almost there!

Before detailing. (You can see my other car too. 2006 Suzuki Reno)

All shined up!

 

[Bass_Waves]

So lucky I tell you. Its def worth all the work u just put into it. You have just scored an awesome car. Happy u got it running.

 

[SonicStatic]

Thank you for your help. I decided that I'm going to drive this Cobalt for awhile and then I would like to buy a 5 speed coupe preferably a SS coupe but I don't know if I will be able to get a SS.

 

[Bass_Waves]

U can easily. They cheap a lsj though.

 

[YelloEye]

You can remove that oil full neck extension BTW, just twist it off like the oil cap. The cap fits back in without the silly extension.