Hopping on the O1E bandwagon

[NerdyDeeds]

5HP24 is on it's way out. Doesn't make financial sense to me to have it rebuilt just for it to fail in another 30k miles so I'm going down the path of the 01E conversion.

Plan is to use the SteveKen kit with his starter and I picked up a 2.7T donor car (sans motor/trans) for driveshafts, axles and pedals. For the transmission itself I'm debating whether I should get a good used one or a bad one and rebuild it. The good used would obviously be easier on the wallet but I also don't want to have to pull the engine again anytime soon. I'll be deleting the rear O2 sensors and SAI while everything is out.

Things I haven't decided on are gutting the cats (I don't have emissions in MN, so no concern there) and the clutch/flywheel combo.

The only other concern area I have is the health of the turbos since there has been quite a bit of oil in the driver side intercooler pipe.