Project Never Fast Enough

[Schuby87]

I'm here all day during the week and I think I have tomorrow off work so if you want your more than welcome to come by then Brett.

I might have to do that now that I know where you're at.

[Darren]

This thread is SEXY! Love the work and its looking good!

[SoulTerror]

Progress is looking good. Wish I knew how to do half the stuff your doing.

[Z28ISGR8]

God is this piece running yet??


I'm prolly gonna stop by tomorrow Jeff.

[c0ncEpT]

I'm prolly gonna stop by tomorrow Jeff.

The only thing that's going to come out of that is all beer is going to get drank

[Phantom409]

Good looking progrees!!

[DETROITMUSCLE]

Thanks guys and anyone local is free to stop by tomorrow as I should be up ther working most of the day.

[Z28ISGR8]

The only thing that's going to come out of that is all beer is going to get drank

Unfortunately no. I have to work tomorrow son. I havn't had a day off since last Thursday and I don't get one until this Tuesday. But I should have a monster check so I'll prolly buy my electric cutout and get my TB ported and polished.

[DETROITMUSCLE]

Well I didn't get as much done today as I had hoped but I actually ended up working half the day so at least I made some dough. First thing I started was coating my headers with the POR20 and I was very happy with the way the first coat went on and they actually looked very good, the second coat is currently drying and then I will snap a few pics of the finished product tomorrow.

Then we went on to that pesky valley cover bolt, well I ran to the hardware store this morning and grabbed a flat head and we champfered the hole down and the bolt fit flush beautifully no more clearance issues. At least thats what I thought. For good measure we wanted to see exactly how much clearance the FAST intake left between the bottom and the supplied hex bolts that came with the manifold. So my dad placed a folded up piece of paper between the bolt holes and the intake so we could test the clearance as we torqued down the manifold. Low and behold by the time I torqued the first four bolts to 4ftlbs we had already touched the paper and it would not move anymore. This was particulary interesting to me because FAST sends these bolts with there intake yet they were preventing it from making an optimal seal.

As much as I hated the fact we wanted to do it right and not have any chance of cracking the intake or the intake not sealing properly so I once again ran back out to the hardware store and came back with more flatheads. We champfered all the remaining valley cover bolts that sat under the intake and therefor left no chance whatsoever for any clearance issues.

Then after the intake was bolted down I finishes some misc stuff like the coolant sensor in the head, spark plugs, oil pressure sensor ect. Then I realized that I only had a few more things lef to connect such as the wiring harness and the a/c compressor, the water pump, power steering resovior, and the starter. All of which I can do while on the k-member so it looks like I am very close to getting this motor back at home up in the engine bay WOOT! and of course some pics.

[sman]

Lookin good jeff! Did you repaint the intake, looks different than the last time I seen it?

[DETROITMUSCLE]

no thats the only thing I really wanted to do but I'm going to hold out for now so I can get it powdercoated. I was gonna repaint it but it would be hell trying to sand it all down of rough it up well enough for the paint to stick that well and its gonna cost like $200+ to get it powdercoated so I might as well wait. For now some touch up paint will have to do.

[c0ncEpT]

Lookin good.

This thing better be running by the next time I'm home.

[CAM N' GTO]

Jeff you have till June jus sayin...

[DETROITMUSCLE]

lol I have to get it done asap because the baby is coming any day now and I have a real bad springtime itch like many others on this site. The car hasn't been driven since August so Its been a long time coming.

[MP81]

Wow Jeff. Lookin good!