Never judge a book by the cover! [lots of B6D pics]

[bobbyspider]

and as far as mounts go? just like a bp?

[Zanzer]

As far as wiring it's just like any other B6 swap, just swap the ECM, VAF, injectors, and rewire the injector harness for the different style plugs. In some ways I think it will be easier than a 2nd gen B6 or B6ME because you don't have to swap the VAF and battery locations or make the long bendy inlet air piping since the D has the B3 style intake

[bobbyspider]

awesome findings!

what all kind of wiring is involved in a b6d swap?

[Zanzer]

So the story goes; I originally wanted to do a B6ME in my blue 93 and then I changed my mind and decided on a B6D instead. I already had the B6ME but Motoxpress wanted an ME for one of his cars, and Festevil3 had just given him a B6D that he had laying in his back yard for a few years. So we traded around I had Festevil just drop the engine off at my shop.

He called just before delivering the engine and said "you are gonna be so mad when you see this engine. It's been laying in my yard for 5 years and I forgot how bad it looked!" Having seen some pretty rough cores in the past I replied "is the engine broken in half? If not, I can use it"

When he dropped it off there was obviously a colony of ants that had decided to make the D their home and he was nice enough to deliver them with the engine LOL. We unloaded it by hand and by the time we got it off the truck we were all being attacked!

Here's the pics of the engine as delivered. Pretty bad, but I've seen worse and it's what's on the inside that counts










I love the grass growing off the pulleys!




You can't see them in the pics, but the damper was still crawling with ants!




After a good pressure washing.




Then I removed the timing covers and found the ant's home base!






On the stand after another good wash down to evict the remaining occupants. (sorry so blurry)



The slightly dented pan No worries, I have a much better pan to use.






And now to the good (and more important) stuff. The insides!

Here's the underside of the valve cover, nice and golden



Other than some rust on a few cam lobes the inside of the head is just as nice. No biggy, I have some better cams to swap in anyway.




The inside of the block. Sooo clean




The backside of a piston. Again, it looks almost factory fresh!




And here was the big find, absolutely zero ridge in the top of the bore and it still has hash marks in the cylinders :thumbup:




Many people would have taken one look at this engine and passed it over. But I've seen engines that looked 10 times better on the outside and were 100 times worse on the inside. All the important stuff on the inside was pristine. Other than a little rust and the chocolate milk oil everything was in perfect shape. No sludge, no ridge, nothing broken, and the bearings and crank looked almost new. It even still has tooling marks on the piston skirts. Of all the B engines I've dismantled this one is the best one yet!

I'm going to start a build thread on the blue 93 when I get some other projects done, I just wanted to share this part of the tear down due to the extreme difference between the outside of the engine and the internals. I think it'll make a nice addition to the 93's engine bay when finished