I'm surprised as how smoothly it's going so far. When we removed the intercooler hoses, we noticed a coating of oil around the edges of the hoses, is this a normal thing? I'll update later with pics.

yeah its normal. As long as it isnt *a lot* of oil.

After a few hours of work, we got this much done. We took a break to go and get an engine hoist.

Sorry, for some damn reason it won't let me post pictures right now.

I never searched, but is there a really good thread somewhere on pulling an FD motor?

I think it starts with "cut off front clip"...



No seriously, I don't think there is a start to finish thread covering the topic, for any generation RX, hopefully I am wrong.

This is an earlier picture, we now are ready to just unbolt the tranny and lift it out, but time caught up with us so it's a project for tomorrow.

Hmmm no pics. Looks like you might have to host them somewhere.