Say hello to Ruby, Ruby Thunder

[murphyz]

no prob... i am stoked to have a motor at my house i can just tinker with.

plan on building it up and putting it in ruby. turn around and sell the v6 and make some money on it to pay for long travel and beer for the next meet.

 

[AlienXtx]

 

[drew02a]

You just need to start hooking

 

[AlienXtx]

I'll just put Kindra out on the streets and see if she gets any bites....

 

[drew02a]

I'll just put Kindra out on the streets and see if she gets any bites....

She gonna be your pimp?

 

[AlienXtx]

Damn skippy, Jasons going to be pissed....

 

[murphyz]

UPDATE: updated first post to include engine buy

 

[murphyz]

UPDATED 1st post to include new motor pics

 

[yotarob]

Started on Murphy's 3.4 swap this weekend. Got the 3.0 out, engine compartment cleaned up and a few parts swapped over.

 

[Boomtacoma01]

Looking good guys. Good wrenching progress!

 

[drew02a]

Nice work. I'm jealous

We'll be wrenching on mine next weekend though.

 

[murphyz]

^^^ ill need your help on the electronics... looks like crap to me

 

[thekidcatcher]

Damn skippy, Jasons going to be pissed....

You best get back in line boy.

 

[murphyz]

differnece in motor mounts 3.0 closest to camera

3.0 on the left

oil pickup differences____3.0 closest to camera

mandatory pics of random parts of engine swap

and mater from cars stopped in rusk so i asked for a pic

 

[drew02a]

Cool

You got a plan for the exhaust yet?

 

[murphyz]

need to cut and weld it together... some guys that have done the swap are saying to go to an exhaust shop and get 4 feet of 2 1/2 pipe mandrel bent into a "U" then cut it yourself and weld it to work for the application. then dump driverside and run straight pipe toa cat back(1) O2 sensor to a magnaflow that is on it. i do not need emissions (thank you southern oregon for the great 20 year rule)

 

[drew02a]

I was planning on dropping the whole engine off at an exhaust shop and letting them modify the headers.

 

[taco4x4rar]

I was planning on dropping the whole engine off at an exhaust shop and letting them modify the headers.

Now exactly do they need to be modified? I would think a set of aftermarket headers would work just fine just build your custom exhaust from the headers back would be pretty easy with one of those universal hot rod kits from jegs or summit

 

[drew02a]

Now exactly do they need to be modified? I would think a set of aftermarket headers would work just fine just build your custom exhaust from the headers back would be pretty easy with one of those universal hot rod kits from jegs or summit

The 3.4L headers drop on the passenger side which can make routing exhaust kinda tricky since there's a front drive shaft and gas tank on that side.

 

[taco4x4rar]

The 3.4L headers drop on the passenger side which can make routing exhaust kinda tricky since there's a front drive shaft and gas tank on that side.

Easy problem to solve, short tube headers then cut and invert the y pipe line up tack back in place remove and fully weld.