texasTA

To Everyone who has always said that an opti install is a horrible job, needs to re-evaluate what easy and hard is. This was an extremly easy swap. Took my little brother and I all of about 4 hours on our very first time ever doing it. The most involved thing to the swap is pulling off the front pulley (balancer?), and that is only because it required a drive up to Autozone.
Just follow the online guide that is posted on this message board and it is a walk in the park. Good luck guys.

revtime

True.
I did not think it was bad at all.

brandboZ28

Well said.

polcat1p

I've done my opti twice,and thought it was easy also.It was just time consuming.The hardest part i thought was scraping off the W.P. gaskets,and bleeding the air out of the coolant.

shoebox

I agree. It's not that big of a deal.

Hyperspeed97z28

I got the front pully off with my hands and good healthy squirts of pb blaster I took mine apart one night and the next am put it back together, I agree, cleaning the old gaskets off was the hardest part, Even bleeding the coolant system wasnt to bad

Fastbird93

LOL, try it in a 1 car townhouse garage!!! No room to maneuver. Hardest part for me was keeping myself from becoming a coolant sponge when I was pulling the water pump.

Even for me and my limited mechanical experience, easy job. Dealer won't be touching that part of the car again.

HungryT/A

Everyone who's thinking the opti swap is hard should do a clutch swap all alone without a lift

badassT/A

I didn't think it was that hard either. I even got one of these http://www.geocities.com/cplca/FreaseBleeder.html Well worth the $15 IMO.