Sooo... after a year of wanting to do this it is finally done!
The whole thing went pretty smooth actually, I was suprised!
-Pulled the gte from the wrecked car without a hitch
-Pulled the ge from my car without a hitch
-Swapped my w58 onto gte and installed new clutch - went just fine
-Dropped in the gte into my car.. went fairly smoothly, needed a leveler on the hoist tho... but we managed
-hooked everything up, plugged everything in, bolted everything on..
-Turn the key to start... Nothing!
Well it went almost smoothly...
First issue was the starter... I forgot about the neutral safety switch on the auto harness (my car was originally a 5spd and still is, but the wrecked one was an auto)... so I just jumpered it and bam motor turns over.. but.. wait a minute nothing!
So.. Now it turns over but not firing.. well imediately I go and check the codes.. hmm code 11.. looks like a problem with the ecu. So I go around and check all my grounds.. walla two of them by the tranny didn't get connected! doh!
Run my two remaining grounds and go to turn the key... Walla! engine turns and then fires! And runs amazingly well! Well it should, it's pretty much brand new (4,000km on the rebuild.. km's not miles, with new oem pistons, rods, crank, cams yada yada)
Time to take her for a rip... ahhh gotta love boost with the 4.30lsd! Only I got a little anxious and gave her some gas, shit, clutch starts to slip! better take it easy for a while untill this clutch gets broken in!
What's left:
-Rewire my knock sensors - throwing a 52... no ground wire on the knock sensors.. somebody just unhooked the grounds on em and bunched them up further up the heatsheilding
-Put on my exhaust - ya.. no exhaust sounded great into boost and then once that wastegate opens hell ya!
-put my hood back on
Oh yes, another small issue, for some reason my tach isn't working.. I just used the auto tach from the turbo car, would this be the issue? Do I need a manual tach or is something wrong?
Oh ya, and pictures!
The whole thing went pretty smooth actually, I was suprised!
-Pulled the gte from the wrecked car without a hitch
-Pulled the ge from my car without a hitch
-Swapped my w58 onto gte and installed new clutch - went just fine
-Dropped in the gte into my car.. went fairly smoothly, needed a leveler on the hoist tho... but we managed
-hooked everything up, plugged everything in, bolted everything on..
-Turn the key to start... Nothing!
Well it went almost smoothly...
First issue was the starter... I forgot about the neutral safety switch on the auto harness (my car was originally a 5spd and still is, but the wrecked one was an auto)... so I just jumpered it and bam motor turns over.. but.. wait a minute nothing!
So.. Now it turns over but not firing.. well imediately I go and check the codes.. hmm code 11.. looks like a problem with the ecu. So I go around and check all my grounds.. walla two of them by the tranny didn't get connected! doh!
Run my two remaining grounds and go to turn the key... Walla! engine turns and then fires! And runs amazingly well! Well it should, it's pretty much brand new (4,000km on the rebuild.. km's not miles, with new oem pistons, rods, crank, cams yada yada)
Time to take her for a rip... ahhh gotta love boost with the 4.30lsd! Only I got a little anxious and gave her some gas, shit, clutch starts to slip! better take it easy for a while untill this clutch gets broken in!
What's left:
-Rewire my knock sensors - throwing a 52... no ground wire on the knock sensors.. somebody just unhooked the grounds on em and bunched them up further up the heatsheilding
-Put on my exhaust - ya.. no exhaust sounded great into boost and then once that wastegate opens hell ya!
-put my hood back on
Oh yes, another small issue, for some reason my tach isn't working.. I just used the auto tach from the turbo car, would this be the issue? Do I need a manual tach or is something wrong?
Oh ya, and pictures!
now you need to clean that mess with vacuum lines 
