still working on car I'm hoping to have it runing tomorrow but I doubt it. I'm back to square one. I have everything taken back apart and I'm on the verge on throwing this piece of s#!t car in the trash compactor. How hard should the fly wheel be to turn. I could barely turn the flywheel when everything was put togetther, I've had so many probs its getting ridiculous. I had to shim the brake back and I put a washer on before flywheel to move it forward so the brake and flywheel would not rub. Is that ok? Basically I got the new motor took off the lock washer thing that someone said to I put a regular washer on against the bearing put the flywheel on the screwed on the pilot shaft.clipped on clutch shoes put a washer then the clutch needle bearing, put the clutch bell on a washer then screwed in the washer through clutch bearing and into pilot shaft. Then I mounted the motor checked mesh, put on throttle linkage, adjusted it, and I thought I was good to go, but apparently not. When I was checking the mesh and all my screws I noticed what looks like netal shavings on chasis in the area of clutch bell/flywheel/spur gear. I had no idea where it could have come from so i tried to move fly wheel and it would not move well it moved anout half a turn but it didn't sound good and it was really hard, does anyone think I got a bad motor or is it just new. Anyways I took everything apart again. The motor looks fine and spins freely when its sitting in my hand. I guess its obvious I'm doing something wrong. I'm wondering if its the first washer that I have mounted against motor between the bearing for crankshaft and the flywheel (the original one from MT2)

And des sorry for bothering so much but since you had an MT2 and dropped the .18 in can you please list the complete mods that you had to do to get it to fit right. what is your setup starting from open the box that the .18cv-x came out of. I don't see why I'd have to do anything different.

Well I'm officailly done for the night, I had another long day/night of working on car. I figured I spent about 8 solid hrs on it. Just incase anyone is keeping track I've had my car now for 37 days, Never drove it even three feet. used up $20 in gas trying to start it originally, used up over $20 worth of plugs, then broke my con rod and piston so how and soent another $170 on a new motor and more accessories. I'm in over $700-800 on this piece of crap that I've never even seen run. I wish I could just pay someone to get it going but none of the LHS do anywork on your car, they just give you advice. Anyways time for a 32oz gin and tonic, or maybe I'll just make it all gin, it's hard to relax after a stressful day I had, and the worse part is tomorrow don't look any better, in my opinion I'm on my to blowing another engine.