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I think he meant he wanted some pics of it installed at different angles, or some more installation pics. And by "custom exhuast runs off magical fairy dust, and little gremlins live in my engine" you mean welded in a hundred different places with "x" amount of transfer pipes to get to the...

well we stripped the motor down today. It ended up that a valve dropped down into one of the pistons, demolished the piston, broke through the bore into the coolant cavity, and the turbo was demolished by having metal fragments flying into the turbines and jamming the bearing. So it has to be a...

well we just had a buddy check out the motor today and it looks like it is completely shot. He said that one of the pistons is demolished and the valves on that cylinder are gone also. So looks like a motor swap is going to be the way to go. So what are a good list of cars for the V6. I checked...

how hard would the KL swap be and what all is involved

So my buddy's Protege 5 finally bit the dirt. The previous owner put a turbo on it, lowered it, haltech computer, the full 9 yards. Well just this week we noticed the turbo was smoking a little in the exhaust so we took apart the exhaust and found that when my friend bottomed out it split the...