My friend Paul came over with his cherry-picker today and we got the engines swapped around.
We first pulled the motor and transmission from the '76:
Lots to clean up here. Before it goes to paint, I'll be removing brackets and whatnot that I won't need. I'm going to try to hide the wiring as much as possible when this thing goes back together.
'76 motor out set to the side:
Then we pulled the engine and transmission from the '78 and separated them:
Engine-less '78, but not for long:
Finally, we put the '76 motor in the '78:
'78 motor sitting on wooden blocks in the garage:
The motor on the stand is what will eventually go back into the '76 car. Both are n42 block/head, but the one on the stand only has less than 100k miles, with no rebuilds. The hood is now back on the '78 and it's ready to go down the road. Hopefully, it will be out of here next weekend. I'm sure my neighbors will be sad to see it gone, though.
Also in the above pic, my Canfield 195's are on top of an old filing cabinet, getting cleaned up for my 260z.