{"id":5226,"date":"2014-07-14T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T05:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2014-07-15T00:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:13:42","slug":"marcus-fry-racing-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2014\/07\/marcus-fry-racing-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Fry Racing Enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"
Due to the magnitude of the swap, I decided I would leave the car to a shop. I take pride in doing most of my own work. I have a far greater degree of control and attention to detail when I’m doing everything myself. However, I simply do not have the bandwidth right now in life to undertake a massive engine and drivetrain project. I also do not have the facilities to complete the swap in my home garage in a timely fashion. Given the circumstances, I think relinquishing the car to a professional is the smart choice.<\/p>\n
Finding a shop I could be comfortable with was crucial. I had to use deliberation and careful examination of the options available before settling. From my experiences, many\u00a0automotive shops are subpar: busy, unorganized, filled with other customer cars, and with heavy emphasis on getting the job done with low refinement. There was no way I could trust leaving my car for a length of time at one of these shops. The higher end shops were either also too busy or wanted to charge exorbitant fees.<\/p>\n
After calling around, I was given a referral to a fabricator and mechanic named Marcus Fry, who branched off and started his own shop a year ago. After my initial conversation with him, I felt like he was a good match to hand off the project to and met my criteria: small, owner operated shop and was willing to dedicate the lift exclusively to my car until the swap was complete. I didn’t like the idea of having my car moved inside and outside while work was done simultaneously on other clients. Marcus was very accommodating and had all the right skills – there are several fabrication work I will need which he can do. I scheduled in the date with him to start the project and he came by to my house on July 6th to transport the LS3\/TR6060. It’s interesting that almost exactly 2 years ago was when I first received the car<\/a>.<\/p>\n I then drove my car to his shop, Marcus Fry Racing Enterprises<\/strong><\/a>, and the swap was\u00a0in full motion.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Marcus allowed me to lend a hand to strip down the engine bay, which I thought was cool. I never worked on my own car in someone else’s shop before. Within a few hours, we were able to undo what was essentially 6 months of my work during the single turbo conversion.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The experience was slightly bittersweet seeing all my shiny, fresh single turbo parts being systematically ripped out. All I had to do was visualize the car with the V8 swap completed, and all notions of sadness were\u00a0immediately wiped away.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I collected the parts we removed and stepped out of the picture, leaving the rest of the project entirely to Marcus’ capable hands. When I stopped by the next day to drop off a few more parts, I saw that the engine bay was bare.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Seeing the rotary powerplant outside of the car gives relativity on how truly small<\/em> it is. The engine and transmission looked frail and undersized in juxtaposition to the far beefier LS3 and TR6060.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n