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Having troubles getting out an engine from my R33 GTS-T. Firstly, the car is situated on a thirty degree slope, and there is no place to have it flat. I am trying to sell it to someone, but I don't want to give them the entire wreck for the price of just the engine ($2,000), as there is still a fair bit of valuable stuff in it (automatic transmission, differential, brakes, etc).

The biggest issue is that I need the car gone in eight days. The council doesn't like a wreck parked on the road...

Would pulling it out with an engine crane be too dangerous? Any other ways I could do this?

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yeah that angle would not be safe to run an engine crane on.

depending on what they want in the wreck you could cut the front off. but I think easiest would be to drop the front subframe and get them to lift the shell off leaving just the subframe andmotor on ground.

to do this you need to undo gearbox cross member, 8 engine subframe bolts. top shock mounts. upper control arms, brake lines and abs sensors. that should do it.

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yeah that angle would not be safe to run an engine crane on.

depending on what they want in the wreck you could cut the front off. but I think easiest would be to drop the front subframe and get them to lift the shell off leaving just the subframe andmotor on ground.

to do this you need to undo gearbox cross member, 8 engine subframe bolts. top shock mounts. upper control arms, brake lines and abs sensors. that should do it.

Thanks Duncan.

After I did that, what would be the best way to get the engine onto a ute? The only thing I can think of to lift something that heavy is an engine crane.

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yeah could do....hope you've got big friends tho.

you can get utes with an engine crane on the back.

but the best way would be to put it somewhere reasonably flat before you start....current location sounds pretty dangerous to me

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