[BarryJB]

Originally Posted by uwanna

Gryphon snot 85.5 thru 86 flanges, LOL very appropriate description! Sure glad I got mine back when you didn't have to pledge your first born for a pair! But then that was back in 1992 when I did the 3.6 transplant when there were no fancy "kits" to solve all the install problems. Everything then was backyard engineering, but it still runs great today. I even added an on engine oil cooler, because nobody told me I couldn't!

LOL back at you Grant, first born! Never thought of that!

Considered using 3.2 cooler w/3.6 after coming across awesome write up during 2-1/2 years research prior to 3.6 plunge—maybe you wrote that?! Decided extra (return side) filter was no bad thing, but one front active cooler wasn't cutting it, so squeezed in a second active fender cooler, L side. Cooling OK w/a 3.2 (radiator style) cooler & 8" fan each side, plus it retained stock look. Lot of fettling to clear FL tire, and relocate alternatives for vapor canister and washer reservoir in frunk. And so on.

A friend made CNC'd blocks from dimensions in another Pelican's post for offsetting pickup points on the reinforced (kit) rear engine bracket and welded it all up. Jae at Mirage here (San Diego) has done a bunch of these conversions, so he did all the engine/bell housing/flywheel/wiring/brain/fuel lines stuff. As a CA car, had to satisfy DMV ref, so keeping stock 993 cat w/tight bends allowed stuffing two short Magnaflow cylindricals over cat, clearing heat tube ok, w/center outs, extra heat shields and everything wrapped. Heat and AC both work great... after more mods.

But as you say, when we did this (c2010), most of the complicated & critical stuff was available in kit form from PM (and others), plus us late-to-it guys benefitted from all you early adopters' pioneering and maybe sometimes painful/$$$ experience. It was quite a journey, even so—can't imagine how challenging and satisfying it must have been to do it with just the idea, the intention, with nothing but empty toilet paper tubes, JB Weld, hairy string, wooden wedges and whitworth wrenches, back there in the early 90's.