Nice progress! Glad you're sticking with this.

(here for virtual moral support)

 

Thank you for your post. Things are progressing smoothly, having some hiccups here and there due to waiting on parts.

I cleared everything on motor with the lines and transferring the accessories over. I now need to buy a VHR belt.



Last wiring to pull, disconnected the three black connector then the white skinny one. All gets pulled out from the cabin.


The loom resting over the engine. At this point now, I just need to go underneath and disconnect: braces, exhaust, and driveshaft. Then just pull!


My pressure bolt and fly wheel came in... but my supplier is going to mail out me the throwout bearing for the MT so I have to wait now. I can't close up the motor/MT just yet then. I'm going to wait for it, because I don't want to try to wrestle the bolts into place separately so I rather bolt them up and glide it right into place. Figured it'll be easier.

Still need clutch assembly, shifter trim piece, and driver side-rear parking line.

 

Update:

Removed all the braces, exhaust, HFCs and driveshaft.




Now I am fairly sure I just undo these shifter linkage and that's that. Just one nut under the motor mount each and undo the AT braces and out it goes.




Since I pulled everything out. I did get a better look at the carnage for you guys. The AT bell housing gave out AND the engine block gave out. The starter is on the other side (driver side).
AT had the the same OEM fluids and the engine may have been running low on oil thus commencing a mortal kombat combo move.

 

The HKS damper kits aren't available for the Z33 to my knowledge

 

@DarkZ03 You’re correct. I see they made a few models so far, Z being one of them for now.

I finally pulled the engine with the AT out of the chassis for the first time ever.



An empty engine bay. The perfect chance to wipe down the chassis and take measurements for my hypothetical engine.



Also removed the shifter. Took some finesse but got it. Just need to enlarge the hole by 1 1/2 inch toward the rear of the car.




Now at this point. All I can do is pre-flight the wiring for the new motor and wipe down the chassis.

Still waiting on my throwout bearing to arrive to pack everything up.