I would imagine it's a drop suspension engine out through the bottom job...

Which means you need length and height in the workspace and very heavy lilting gear for the body..

I'm with GB here. You sound pretty competent. I'd add some decent axle stands as the job will require crawling underneath.

Get a Haynes manual and read it thoroughly. One of the things that gets tedious with them nowadays is they keep referring to other chapters and sections. Read those sections before starting as I've found in the past that simple instructions like remove starter motor, mean remove xy and z first, and you need a tool you don't have to remove y. The tool may only be a stubby spanner or extra long extension bar, but you're snookered without it.

VERY hard here.

It used to be completely illegal.

Now its apparently possible if its EXACTLY the same model of engine, BUT you have to fill in A LOT of forms in Chinese, and pay the government A LOT of money. to re-regtster the car, and/or there are (inevitably) fixer guys with contacts who you pay A LOT of money to and they...er...grease the wheels, as it were.

Seldom, therefore, an economic proposition unless its some shiny money-no-object exotica.

Not directly useful info to you, of course, but I thought it might encourage you a bit

VERY hard here.

It used to be completely illegal.

Who's going to tell them, or is the place awash with grasses looking for a pat on the head?

Serial numbers checked at six monthly inxpection.

Those aren't always uber-diligent, provided you go to a private inspection outfit and not a govt one, which are quite eager-beaverish about scrapping cars,

You can't, however, avoid the govt outfits on re-registration, so a re-engined car could never be sold.

You might be able to...er...buy a reliable level of absent-mindedness, at least at the private centres, most easily accomplished by employing an agent to do the inspection for you, but once you start that its an additional recurring cost for the liength of your ownership.

Re "or is the place awash with grasses looking for a pat on the head?" I'm afraid that, from my experience, that description would be a better fit with the UK. People here generally aren't sufficiently interested.

Wonder if the OP will ever return to tell us how the job went.

Give him time. I'd stalli for quite a while before I takled something on that scale. You'd want an uninterrupted block of time in your workspace, arrange needed lifting gear and special tools, access to another vehicle to go for things you'd forgotten or didn't realise you'd need, and maybe you'd need to schedule helpers. Take a while to set up.

When I did it I almost got caught...er...borrowing a required wheel barrow and some scaffolding off a building site.

If I'd planned that I could have located them in advance rather than blundering around in the dark.

The engine number / selling stuff was in reference to regulations in Taiwan, where Im at.

Apologies for not being clear on that, though I did mention Chinese forms, a bit of a clue.

AFAIK there are no comparable regulatory restrictions in the UK.

Dunno about the wiring loom question, but someone will.

Hope the job goes well. Work Safe

A little update on this, progress is slow with work and this virus making it hard to get any supplies.

However, I now have the engine and gearbox removed. I have fitted the gearbox to the replacement engine along with a new clutch kit and flywheel. And all wiring etc swapped over.

The timing belt on the original engine has literally done a few hundred miles. I will be looking to swap this over to the replacement engine. I have ordered a locking tool for this, although I am a bit worried about making sure the engine is in top dead centre - Any tips for that?