Photo: Keli Dougherty The first step in butchering this car was to remove everything from the chest cavity (under the hood). Before the body could be cut in half, the engine had to come out. Before that could happen, everything in the engine compartment that was in the way would also have to come out.
The fluid reservoirs, fans, radiator, wires, hoses and belts all had to come off. The work was fairly easy to do considering my limited experience with the medium. The hood came off, bolts were removed, hoses and wires disconnected, and the parts were pulled out clearing space for access to the engine.
After it was clear, it was just a matter of cutting the hoses and wires that ran to the engine, removing the bolts where the engine was mounted to the frame and moving the gantry with the block and tackle into place to hoist the engine out. I received a lot of help with this from my friend Chris Kellners. Without his help, I would have never been able to do this project. Thank you Chris.
we started to pull the engine out and before long the car started coming with it. when we saw the front end coming up off the blocks, we knew that something was wrong so we set the car back down, and looked around to see what it was. Stupid me forgot to disconnect the exhaust pipe from the engine...duh...5 minutes and one saw-z-all blade later the engine was free (for real this time) and we started again. This time it came right out.
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