Alright this is 100% from memory. If you start doing it and run into troubles you can call me.
If you can get an engine hoist it will make your life A LOT easier.
At least get a tranny jack.
First remove the battery, and battery tray.
Remove your intake (stock or CAI)
Remove all the sensors on the transmission.
Loosen the lug nuts on the driver and passenger front tires.
Raise and safely support the car with jack stands.
Remove passenger and driver front tires.
Remove axle nuts.
Start on the driver side
Remove skid plate on drivers side. (five bolts I think? it's a small black plate that is directly behind your lower control arm.)
Remove the two bolts holding the lower control arm to the body.
Remove the sway bar link. (Short rod that connects to sway bar and to strut mount)
Remove the strut mount retaining bolt (connects to the slower control arm)
Loosen strut mount (one bolt) slide it off the strut and remove.
The wheel hub should be suspended by the Upper control arm, and tie-rod.
Remove the axle. ( place the pry-bar where the green part of the axle enters the transmission pry it out) Be ready for fluid to leak out.
Know do the same thing to the passenger side.
Remove the cross-bar (It has one tranny mount on it)
Remove the shift linkage. (A cotter pin on each, then push back towards the firewall and pull up, and out of the way.)
Remove the Windshield washer reservoir, there are two electrical harnesses connected to it.
Remove the starter.
Remove the slave cylinder. Strap it up as high as you can out of the way (by the ECU)
Remove the splash guard on the tranny. (metal plate on the passenger side of the tranny, I think it's three bolts. Then it slides off.)
This is the part where a engine hoist would come in handy. If you do not have one, use a jack, and a 2x6 Place the 2x6 between the jack and the oil pan. Jack it up until the engine starts to move up just a hair.
Remove the rear tranny mount (might be easier to access if you remove the intake manifold, but not nessicary.)
Remove the driver side tranny mount.
Lower the jack until it looks like the tranny is at a lower angle. Be careful not to lower it too much because you can wreck the remaining engine mount, and have the engine fall of the jack.
If you have a tranny jack, place it under the tranny and jack it up tight. If not have yourself or your friend go under the car and put your hands against the transmisison (bench pressing style).
Now remove all the tranny to engine retaining bolts.
Whoever removed the bolts, should be on the top side of the motor. Grab on the front tranny mount and the side tranny mounting point. Working with the guy underneith
Slide the engine towards the driver side. It will drop quickly.
Set the tranny in a dry place.
Use a 17MM (I think that's the right size) open end wrench. Loosen the bolts holding the clutch to the flywheel. (They are between the flywheel and the engine. Not much room)
Rotate the engine and remove the bolts (only four) from the underside (the only place you have enough room to remove them)
Make sure that someone is hanging onto the clutch it will fall and hurt your stomach.
Then remove the bolts attaching the flywheel to the crank. Take the new clutch and flywheel and line them up off the car. There is only one way it will work. It sucks trying to line it up on the car.
Once you've figured out the way it'll work, mark the top spots on both.
Bolt the flywheel back onto the car.
Bolt the clutch onto the flywheel.
Now this part is what took the most time. Trying to get the tranny back into the motor. It has to be a perfect angle, it SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS
If you have an engine hoist and a tranny jack it makes life MUCH easier.
Once you manage to get all of that back together just reverse the order to install it!
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