**Getting the Engine Ready**

The team has started working on the engine, which is an exciting project to tackle. They began by cleaning off everything and getting ready to put the front cover back on. As they worked, they discovered that the silicone gasket maker had dried up perfectly in the cap, matching the threads with ease. This was a satisfying moment for the team, as it showed how well the product performed.

With the front cover on, the team started working on getting the paint on. They coated the engine with a bead of silicone to ensure a smooth finish and tested fit to make sure everything lined up properly. The pickup tube is designed to suck oil out of this section, featuring a nice little baffle in there with a trapdoor. This design ensures that the oil flows smoothly through the system.

As they continued working on the engine, the team realized that two studs from the factory had nuts on them but were too short for the aluminum thickness. They decided to pull those out and replace them with new bolts. Once everything was tightened down, they put the cover back on and got the intake and exhaust manifold attached.

**Notching the Transmission**

The next step in the process was to notch the transmission for the K-series starter. The team discovered that the Miata's starter is located on this side from factory, and there's a hump for it. To clear this area, they had to notch the transmission out, using a 2-inch hole saw to get it right. They decided to use this method instead of angle grinding it out, which would have been easier but might not have produced the same results.

With the transmission notched out, the team started working on mating it up to the engine. This involved getting all the necessary fittings and seals in place. Once everything was secured, they started thinking about how to get the engine into the car. They realized that they needed to pull off the stock subframe from the Miata to make room for the tubular one that came with the kit.

**Preparing the Subframe**

To prepare the subframe for installation, the team had to unbolt the control arms and remove any lines or accessories that were in the way. They also had to drop the steering rack down and get it ready to install on top of the new subframe. This involved hooking the steering column back up to the car's frame, but they were almost ready to move forward with installing the K-series transmission.

**Getting the Transmission Installed**

The team was excited to start working on getting the transmission installed in the car. They had all the necessary parts and fittings, and they were ready to take it one step at a time. As they worked on the transmission, they realized that they still had a few minor adjustments to make before everything was complete.

With the transmission installed, the team turned their attention to getting the coolant fittings and other accessories in place. They also needed to drop down the car's subframe, which would be replaced with the new tubular one from the kit. The final step was to get the steering rack and upper control arms bolted up, and then they could start thinking about getting everything test-driven.

**The Final Touches**

As the team worked on getting everything installed, they couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction with how far they had come. They had tackled some tough challenges and overcome many obstacles along the way. With the transmission finally in place, they were one step closer to getting the car back up and running again.

The team was excited to see the finished product, which would be a fully upgraded K-series Miata. They had put in countless hours of hard work and dedication to get it this far, and they couldn't wait to see the result. With the engine installed and the transmission ready, they were now just a few steps away from getting the car on the road again.

The team's enthusiasm was palpable as they worked towards their goal. They were determined to make sure that everything was perfect before putting it all together. As they finished up the final touches, they couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment at what they had achieved. The K-series Miata was going to be an impressive machine, and the team was honored to have been a part of its creation.

In the next video, the team would finally get the chance to test drive their new Miata and see everything in action. They would be one step closer to getting the car up and running again, and they couldn't wait to share that experience with their audience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys this is part two of the k-swap miata build in the last video we got the stock engine and transmission pulled out of this thing and in today's video we are going to be focusing on our new k-series engine that will be going into the car as you can see this one still has everything on it as far as the intake manifold goes and the exhaust manifold we still have our wiring harness on there power steering pump the alternator i am going to be stripping this thing down and my plan is to stick this into the miata without any accessories on it anything we need to put onto the engine we will do once it is back in the car so that includes the new intake manifold we got the new exhaust manifold all the little engine accessories we'll do that once we get this thing stuffed back in there it'll just give me a lot more room to work around the engine while we're getting it back into the car and stuff but there is a lot of things that need to be done before this is ready to go back into the car so besides all of that stuff needing to come off we also have to get the oil pan off of there and get this new custom oil pan thrown on that was provided in the kit from k-power and we have our little deal that will go on to the oil pump so there's some things we have to do to get this oil pan fitted to our new engine over there and i think that will be best done on an engine stand so we can flip it upside down and get to all of that stuff something else i had to track down that this kit does not come with is a clutch and right here we have a used miata 1.8 clutch it is just the stock spec clutch i guess any 1.8 miata clutch will work with this kit the kit like i said does not come with one this one i found locally i got it through a friend of a friend a guy's name is patrick so thank you patrick that saved us some time i was able to just go and pick it up and we have our clutch ready to go now this is an aftermarket clutch supposedly it will handle up to 300 foot-pounds of torque and it came out of a car that made 250 wheel horsepower so even if we turbo the miata one day this clutch will probably hold up for a little bit on low boost but it will be perfect for our all motor application for the time being and something else i found out is that this kit also does not include the flywheel bolts they sell them separate on the website which i did not know about and i ordered some flywheel bolts through a local dealership that will be here tomorrow my plan was to try to get the transmission made it up to the engine today and hopefully get it stuck into the car but we need the flywheel bolts so we're gonna have to wait until tomorrow until we can do that but for today i'm gonna go ahead and get the stand for the engine get the engine on the stand and start tearing everything we don't need off of the engine and get it ready so then tomorrow once we do have the flywheel bolts we can go ahead and put the flywheel on get the transmission on there get our adapter plate and everything set up and then we can stick this thing into the car and keep on going so i'm super excited a couple more parts to come in and we'll have everything we need here to get this thing knocked out but let's go ahead and start getting this engine all tore down check out all this junk we're not gonna need anymore except maybe the alternator i'm not sure yet but just pulled all this stuff off of our k series and right now i'm getting ready to clip this thing all the way upside down because we need to get the oil pan pulled off of this thing and get our custom aluminum oil pan thrown on there and it has a different pickup tube on it as you guys saw in the unboxing video we have this stuff to get on there and obviously to get all that on there when you get the pan off so i tilted it over it still had a full oil change in it or a full you know amount of oil in it can't talk right now it was full of oil and i had to drain all the oil out of this thing got all the oil out she's ready to flip upside down and get that pan off and get the new pickup on and get our new aluminum pan on all right boys i went ahead and got the oil pan pulled off this thing and i was looking at the installation guide that k-power has on their website they have a really nice walk-through guide on doing the whole swap with pictures and everything on the website and turns out you actually need a type s oil pump on this thing and this is the factory k24 oil pump this big bulky one this is not the one we can use with that pan because it has you know that hump that goes in there and then that piece goes to the type s pump so that's what this guy is for so it can work with that hump that's in the pan for the steering rack and stuff so jason over at jbr has some in stock and he's bringing me one right now and we'll get this guy swapped out and then we'll be able to get everything on there that we need and get the aluminum pan on buddy look at all these shavings oh yes he looks pretty good under there this is uh bone stock motor everything appears to be okay so it's also good to take a look at it since it's never you know been ran for a while it's kind of crazy that those things are chain driven you know almost like gear driven or some stuff or right off the side of the crank yeah that's cool chain drive baby all right jason just came through the type s pump so we are ready to go that pickup that is on there is going to come off and the plate replaces that which i'll show you guys once we get that far but uh what do you think about a jbr engine gun in the miata the traffic can handle the power i mean i i don't know i don't think garza could handle the power i don't know if he could uh i don't think so i don't know what he'd do with 1200 horsepower yeah in a little miata like this i don't think the chassis will take 1200 and the over i don't know i don't know about building a seven second miata real quick just like the mr2 i gotta be pretty badass like would not be sick let me know guys maybe we'll pick up a miata and do one for ourselves see how this one goes nice probably with a 67 you probably don't need all that turbo to go faster than that that'd be cool or maybe we'll just get garza good enough at driving it and uh we can convince him to upgrade it take it down the track all right guys just got this oil pump pulled apart you can actually see the oil pump gear inside of there i thought i'd show you guys in case you've never seen the inside of an oil pump but the whole oiling system for the entire engine is responsible by that little gear right there just kind of meshes together so pretty cool this guy went on like that there was no gasket just metal on metal five bolts that guy comes off and then this is our new one and that goes on like so and then that goes to the pickup tube right there so pickup tube will come off that guy and go into our new sump on the new pan and we'll be good to go so go ahead and get that bolted on i had to get pretty messy here so we actually had to take the whole front cover off of the engine because not only do we have to change the pump out for the type s pump but when doing that you have to change out this chain that drives the oil pump because the k24 one is a different size and the guide we are going to swap all that stuff over and then we also need a windage tray from ak20 because we are no longer using this k24 windage tray this is like a two-piece steel so i actually am putting the windage tray off of the mr2's old engine this is the one that went eight three in the quarter mile uh i'm going to steal this windows tray while i have another one ordered on the way just so i can get some things done here but stealing that one and i'm stealing the chain and guide off this guy so we can get this motor together for guards out here all right the oil pump is on and ready to go got the chain on got the guides on and the new piece from k-power to go to the new pickup and we are ready to go and also when we take the k24 oil pump off you cannot forget to take this little plug out right here uh you just take a wood screw and use a screwdriver and thread it into that little hole and it will catch enough to pull it out i just use this little guy right here so threaded that guy in there popped it out with some vice grips and then we need to find a 12 millimeter head honda bolt that will fit right into that guy because as you can see it's threaded down in there and we can just thread a bolt into there and plug that guy up on some of these k24s it is not threaded on the block right there and you actually have to weld that hole shut and you need to do this because if you don't it will lose a lot of oil pressure because oil will just start squirting out of there so get that guy plugged up we can get our windows tray on there and move on from there get our timing chain and everything put back together get the pan on this thing and start working on the flywheel and clutch and work on getting the transmission mated up to this thing so we can get it in the car but we still have a lot to do so let's keep on going i was just getting everything cleaned off getting ready to put this front cover back on grab my silicone and when i went to take the cap off look at how this stuff dried up in the cap dried up so perfectly in there it's kind of satisfying look at that even matched the threads that is just pure silicone gasket maker right there but gotta rip that guy off so we can uh get all this stuff sealed up and get her back together all right the pump and pickup are all done front cover's on it's time to get the paint on just got her coated with a bead of silicone we already test fitted it to make sure that everything's lined up good and you can kind of see how that pickup tube comes over here and it will suck oil out of this section right there has a nice little baffle in there with a trapdoor in here going on in there so uh yeah this is a really nice pan get her on and then after this is done we're about ready to go with the engine just like that we have to put uh bolts all the way around there were two studs that had nuts from factory but you had to pull those out because the aluminum was a little thicker and they weren't long enough so yeah get it all tightened down ready to go so we got the pan on and we uh couldn't help ourselves put the cover on and the intake and exhaust manifold and this thing looks freaking sick now we are ready to get this off the stand and get the adapter plate and all this stuff on work on getting the transmission made it up to our new k series for the miata hell yeah that k2 valve cover i think is freaking awesome so i got the clutch and flywheel all mounted up and i was in the process of making up the transmission and it turns out you actually have to notch this for the k series starter because the miata starter is on this side from factory and there's the hump for it so we actually need to notch this out right here where i have it marked out you can see the starter sticking through they said the best way to do it is just take a two inch hole saw and get that guy on there like that and it looks nice and clean instead of angle grinding it out but you could just angle grind it do whatever you need to do to clearance it but we're going to go ahead and hole saw it out and then we can get the transmission all mated up all right just got the transmission all mated up to the engine here there's still a couple more things we need to get on here before it's ready to go into the car there's some coolant fittings and stuff like that but it just needs minor things and it's ready to go in but before we can do that we actually need to get this sub frame pulled off of the miata here the stock one and get that out of the way for the tubular one that came with the kit so looks like we're gonna have to unbolt these control arms and uh looks like just a couple bolts holding it in get some lines out of the way get the steering rack off and drop her on out get the new one in and then i think we're gonna pull out this ac condenser get all the lines out of the way they came with that clear up some more room stuff we don't need and then we can go ahead and lower back down and get this thing dropped in there this thing looks so sad without the subframe in it looks like a scared puppy at the vet don't worry we're gonna take good care of you we're gonna be up and rip it in no time all right guys we just got the sub frame in the car there's still a couple more things we need to get bolted up like the steering rack and the upper control arms but the subframe is in there and looking awesome we got to hook this back up to the steering column as well but we are almost ready to get the k series with the transmission back into garva's miata here and i was hoping to have it in there by this video but we are calling it there we had a lot to get done a little bit more than i expected but we made a lot of progress in today's video and i hope you guys enjoyed in the next one we will definitely have the k series in the car and we will be one step closer to getting this thing back up and ripping again and get garza doing some burnouts so i hope you guys enjoyed this video and we'll see you guys tomorrow and we will get this thing in the car keep on going from there youwhat's up guys this is part two of the k-swap miata build in the last video we got the stock engine and transmission pulled out of this thing and in today's video we are going to be focusing on our new k-series engine that will be going into the car as you can see this one still has everything on it as far as the intake manifold goes and the exhaust manifold we still have our wiring harness on there power steering pump the alternator i am going to be stripping this thing down and my plan is to stick this into the miata without any accessories on it anything we need to put onto the engine we will do once it is back in the car so that includes the new intake manifold we got the new exhaust manifold all the little engine accessories we'll do that once we get this thing stuffed back in there it'll just give me a lot more room to work around the engine while we're getting it back into the car and stuff but there is a lot of things that need to be done before this is ready to go back into the car so besides all of that stuff needing to come off we also have to get the oil pan off of there and get this new custom oil pan thrown on that was provided in the kit from k-power and we have our little deal that will go on to the oil pump so there's some things we have to do to get this oil pan fitted to our new engine over there and i think that will be best done on an engine stand so we can flip it upside down and get to all of that stuff something else i had to track down that this kit does not come with is a clutch and right here we have a used miata 1.8 clutch it is just the stock spec clutch i guess any 1.8 miata clutch will work with this kit the kit like i said does not come with one this one i found locally i got it through a friend of a friend a guy's name is patrick so thank you patrick that saved us some time i was able to just go and pick it up and we have our clutch ready to go now this is an aftermarket clutch supposedly it will handle up to 300 foot-pounds of torque and it came out of a car that made 250 wheel horsepower so even if we turbo the miata one day this clutch will probably hold up for a little bit on low boost but it will be perfect for our all motor application for the time being and something else i found out is that this kit also does not include the flywheel bolts they sell them separate on the website which i did not know about and i ordered some flywheel bolts through a local dealership that will be here tomorrow my plan was to try to get the transmission made it up to the engine today and hopefully get it stuck into the car but we need the flywheel bolts so we're gonna have to wait until tomorrow until we can do that but for today i'm gonna go ahead and get the stand for the engine get the engine on the stand and start tearing everything we don't need off of the engine and get it ready so then tomorrow once we do have the flywheel bolts we can go ahead and put the flywheel on get the transmission on there get our adapter plate and everything set up and then we can stick this thing into the car and keep on going so i'm super excited a couple more parts to come in and we'll have everything we need here to get this thing knocked out but let's go ahead and start getting this engine all tore down check out all this junk we're not gonna need anymore except maybe the alternator i'm not sure yet but just pulled all this stuff off of our k series and right now i'm getting ready to clip this thing all the way upside down because we need to get the oil pan pulled off of this thing and get our custom aluminum oil pan thrown on there and it has a different pickup tube on it as you guys saw in the unboxing video we have this stuff to get on there and obviously to get all that on there when you get the pan off so i tilted it over it still had a full oil change in it or a full you know amount of oil in it can't talk right now it was full of oil and i had to drain all the oil out of this thing got all the oil out she's ready to flip upside down and get that pan off and get the new pickup on and get our new aluminum pan on all right boys i went ahead and got the oil pan pulled off this thing and i was looking at the installation guide that k-power has on their website they have a really nice walk-through guide on doing the whole swap with pictures and everything on the website and turns out you actually need a type s oil pump on this thing and this is the factory k24 oil pump this big bulky one this is not the one we can use with that pan because it has you know that hump that goes in there and then that piece goes to the type s pump so that's what this guy is for so it can work with that hump that's in the pan for the steering rack and stuff so jason over at jbr has some in stock and he's bringing me one right now and we'll get this guy swapped out and then we'll be able to get everything on there that we need and get the aluminum pan on buddy look at all these shavings oh yes he looks pretty good under there this is uh bone stock motor everything appears to be okay so it's also good to take a look at it since it's never you know been ran for a while it's kind of crazy that those things are chain driven you know almost like gear driven or some stuff or right off the side of the crank yeah that's cool chain drive baby all right jason just came through the type s pump so we are ready to go that pickup that is on there is going to come off and the plate replaces that which i'll show you guys once we get that far but uh what do you think about a jbr engine gun in the miata the traffic can handle the power i mean i i don't know i don't think garza could handle the power i don't know if he could uh i don't think so i don't know what he'd do with 1200 horsepower yeah in a little miata like this i don't think the chassis will take 1200 and the over i don't know i don't know about building a seven second miata real quick just like the mr2 i gotta be pretty badass like would not be sick let me know guys maybe we'll pick up a miata and do one for ourselves see how this one goes nice probably with a 67 you probably don't need all that turbo to go faster than that that'd be cool or maybe we'll just get garza good enough at driving it and uh we can convince him to upgrade it take it down the track all right guys just got this oil pump pulled apart you can actually see the oil pump gear inside of there i thought i'd show you guys in case you've never seen the inside of an oil pump but the whole oiling system for the entire engine is responsible by that little gear right there just kind of meshes together so pretty cool this guy went on like that there was no gasket just metal on metal five bolts that guy comes off and then this is our new one and that goes on like so and then that goes to the pickup tube right there so pickup tube will come off that guy and go into our new sump on the new pan and we'll be good to go so go ahead and get that bolted on i had to get pretty messy here so we actually had to take the whole front cover off of the engine because not only do we have to change the pump out for the type s pump but when doing that you have to change out this chain that drives the oil pump because the k24 one is a different size and the guide we are going to swap all that stuff over and then we also need a windage tray from ak20 because we are no longer using this k24 windage tray this is like a two-piece steel so i actually am putting the windage tray off of the mr2's old engine this is the one that went eight three in the quarter mile uh i'm going to steal this windows tray while i have another one ordered on the way just so i can get some things done here but stealing that one and i'm stealing the chain and guide off this guy so we can get this motor together for guards out here all right the oil pump is on and ready to go got the chain on got the guides on and the new piece from k-power to go to the new pickup and we are ready to go and also when we take the k24 oil pump off you cannot forget to take this little plug out right here uh you just take a wood screw and use a screwdriver and thread it into that little hole and it will catch enough to pull it out i just use this little guy right here so threaded that guy in there popped it out with some vice grips and then we need to find a 12 millimeter head honda bolt that will fit right into that guy because as you can see it's threaded down in there and we can just thread a bolt into there and plug that guy up on some of these k24s it is not threaded on the block right there and you actually have to weld that hole shut and you need to do this because if you don't it will lose a lot of oil pressure because oil will just start squirting out of there so get that guy plugged up we can get our windows tray on there and move on from there get our timing chain and everything put back together get the pan on this thing and start working on the flywheel and clutch and work on getting the transmission mated up to this thing so we can get it in the car but we still have a lot to do so let's keep on going i was just getting everything cleaned off getting ready to put this front cover back on grab my silicone and when i went to take the cap off look at how this stuff dried up in the cap dried up so perfectly in there it's kind of satisfying look at that even matched the threads that is just pure silicone gasket maker right there but gotta rip that guy off so we can uh get all this stuff sealed up and get her back together all right the pump and pickup are all done front cover's on it's time to get the paint on just got her coated with a bead of silicone we already test fitted it to make sure that everything's lined up good and you can kind of see how that pickup tube comes over here and it will suck oil out of this section right there has a nice little baffle in there with a trapdoor in here going on in there so uh yeah this is a really nice pan get her on and then after this is done we're about ready to go with the engine just like that we have to put uh bolts all the way around there were two studs that had nuts from factory but you had to pull those out because the aluminum was a little thicker and they weren't long enough so yeah get it all tightened down ready to go so we got the pan on and we uh couldn't help ourselves put the cover on and the intake and exhaust manifold and this thing looks freaking sick now we are ready to get this off the stand and get the adapter plate and all this stuff on work on getting the transmission made it up to our new k series for the miata hell yeah that k2 valve cover i think is freaking awesome so i got the clutch and flywheel all mounted up and i was in the process of making up the transmission and it turns out you actually have to notch this for the k series starter because the miata starter is on this side from factory and there's the hump for it so we actually need to notch this out right here where i have it marked out you can see the starter sticking through they said the best way to do it is just take a two inch hole saw and get that guy on there like that and it looks nice and clean instead of angle grinding it out but you could just angle grind it do whatever you need to do to clearance it but we're going to go ahead and hole saw it out and then we can get the transmission all mated up all right just got the transmission all mated up to the engine here there's still a couple more things we need to get on here before it's ready to go into the car there's some coolant fittings and stuff like that but it just needs minor things and it's ready to go in but before we can do that we actually need to get this sub frame pulled off of the miata here the stock one and get that out of the way for the tubular one that came with the kit so looks like we're gonna have to unbolt these control arms and uh looks like just a couple bolts holding it in get some lines out of the way get the steering rack off and drop her on out get the new one in and then i think we're gonna pull out this ac condenser get all the lines out of the way they came with that clear up some more room stuff we don't need and then we can go ahead and lower back down and get this thing dropped in there this thing looks so sad without the subframe in it looks like a scared puppy at the vet don't worry we're gonna take good care of you we're gonna be up and rip it in no time all right guys we just got the sub frame in the car there's still a couple more things we need to get bolted up like the steering rack and the upper control arms but the subframe is in there and looking awesome we got to hook this back up to the steering column as well but we are almost ready to get the k series with the transmission back into garva's miata here and i was hoping to have it in there by this video but we are calling it there we had a lot to get done a little bit more than i expected but we made a lot of progress in today's video and i hope you guys enjoyed in the next one we will definitely have the k series in the car and we will be one step closer to getting this thing back up and ripping again and get garza doing some burnouts so i hope you guys enjoyed this video and we'll see you guys tomorrow and we will get this thing in the car keep on going from there you\n"