Alright, this is my first genuine post in quite a while. I'm at home this morning taking care of a few things. I usually head to campus at 7am, but today I'm gonna go a little later in the morning.

Yesterday Wei and I went to Mongolian Grille to eat dinner after work. I haven't been there in ages, and had had a craving for it. Fortunately, I was able to drag Wei into going. The food was not as I remembered it, but it was still good. I think I put way too much on my plate, and didn't put sauce on proportionately. Because of that, my food was a little on the dry side. But again, I say, it was still good.

After dinner, Wei came over and we tackled the SR20 motor once again. I think we hadn't touched it in about a month because of some issues we had the last time we tried this. There were two big issues that were major roadblocks in this project going forward. The first was that the crank angle sensor was wedged/stuck/welded into the motor head. We got a broken sensor to begin with, and so we had to replace it anyways. Second of all, we dropped a screw into the motor block and couldn't find it at all. If we couldn't solve either of these problems, our motor was toast.

Thank goodness we were able to fix both of these problems. Wei bought an engine stand for the project. We lifted the engine onto the stand and were able to work on the motor standing up (pretty nice). Using some brute force, we managed to destroy the remains of the crank angle sensor (but in the process screwing up the timing to the car... oh well, more on that later). Also, since the engine stand allowed us to flip the engine over rather easily, we took the oil pan off and found the missing screw sitting in the bottom of the engine. You have no idea how happy I was. Now all we have to do is fix the timing on the car.

In order to pull out the CAS, we took off the cam gears and that gave us enough room to be hammering stuff in the engine. Crazy stuff. So since the timing chain came off the cam gears, the timing is all screwed up on the motor. Oh well, at least there is documentation in the manual on how to install a timing chain.

Project 240 status: still good! I predict about $400-500 before we can get the engine in the car and running. From there it will be a few cosmetic things here and there, and we should be good to go. I'm still looking for an s13 front end. If you have one for sale, let me know:)