LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Got some nice progress over a couple hours yesterday. Test fit the trans x-member and confirmed that the exhaust clearance is good on both sides, and there is plenty of room on the passenger side to clear an oil line hooked up the the drain port..

Then yanked out the engine. I figure for the clutch/flywheel swap, oil pan change, heads change, etc it's just easier to do it out of the car. I might even give the block a quick respray while it's out, haven't decided on that yet...

I could swear I had some beefy chains in the garage, but I didn't. Luckily I had copious straps and shackles in the "emergency kit" in my daily driver truck haha. A bit ghetto but it worked fine, just needed to throw a jack under the trans tailhousing to adjust engine/trans angle.

Managed to get the clutch off but the flywheel was jammed on there, and I ran out of time have a go at it. The flywheel had some hot spots on it, however it's mated nicely to this Centerforce clutch which still appears to have good life on it without any chatter or anything. I ordered a new flywheel to mate with the fresh McLeod Twin Street RST clutch I'm going to put in, and I'll keep this flywheel/clutch/trans as an extra assembly for a possible future project, since it all works flawlessly as-is.