New engine comes today (Tuesday). ARP rod bolt kit comes Wednesday or Thursday. I may get the tranny this week, maybe not till next week. Supercharger comes back from Magnuson on Thursday. Hmmm......should I go ahead and put the motor in as soon as it's ready, then put the tranny in later from underneath? Or should I just wait and put the two in bolted together? I am getting impatient....want something to do.....I figure I can do a little bit of idle tuning without the trans installed (and just sit and listen to it lope with the new cam ), and that it might be slightly less confusing to take the reinstallation in pieces rather than all at once, but....does the extra work involved in putting the trans in from underneath defeat the purpose? What would you do?

 

Ive always put them in seperate, but I would be careful starting the engine with the tranny out. May have some problems with the motor mounts.

Personally Id go ahead and drop the motor in though

 

I'd throw the engine in, and go as far as I could. But I've allwas install the eng and trans seperate (just never had them out at the same time.)

 

Is it not safe to run the engine without the tranny installed?

 

The engine would only be held in position with the two mounts in the center of the block. I bet it wouldn't take much for the engine to rock back and forth. Other than that I don't see any other problems, just have to remove the exhaust to install the trans. I wonder how many code the VCM would thorw if you did run it with-out the trans??? lol

 

Well I wouldn't be revving it up or anything, just trying to do some idle tuning and making sure that all the electrical stuff is working the way it's supposed to.

I bet I'd get a nice laundry list of codes for the tranny I wonder if they would just go away once the trans was installed?

 

How are you tunning it?

 

EFILive, not sure how the existing 5.3 210/218 tune is gonna like the 6.0 with a 216/224 cam....

 

Should just beable to clear the codes once the trans is in.

 

That's kinda what I was figuring, but I wasn't sure if there would be some kind of limp mode or anything that the PCM would go into.