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Ok guys here an update, the heads are back and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out have a look and see what you think.
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Also I wanted to show you guys a few other little projects I have going on that are helping me to cut cost. We have a blast cabinet at work so on my lunch break I tried to blast off my headers quickly, I still have to finish the job but once these bad boys are done I'll be coating them with POR 20 and possibly even curing them in an oven before they go on.
Another huge cost saver is my FAST 90 intake. When I first got the intake about 3 years ago my buddy "sold" it to me but didn't include the new valley cover bolts that came with the intake. Therefor, when I first started torqing down the intake it cracked and caused a whole big mess which totally bummed me out. Remember this intake costs $900+ brand new. Luckly FAST sells the 3 individual parts of the intake seperate if you choose, but I didn't have time or cash for the $360 bottom half that I just cracked so we got a few ideas together and decided to epoxy a piece of sheetmetal where the crack was and completly removed the broken plastic piece. This worked great for the last few years but upon inspection this time I noticed that the epoxy was starting to flake off pretty easily now so we went back to square one. I did some searching and found a place in Detroit that does plastic welding, drove out there only to discover that because the intake is poly that its composed of many different plastics and he could not get any welding rod to stick. The guy did howeveer suggest my backup plan that I had.
My backup plan was to use JB weld, as the epoxy I had was not intended for plastic use and JB weld was also what FAST and several guys on LS1tech had recommended as well. One of these such guys used it on his own intake which saw 20lbs of boost after and had no issues whatsoever. Like always though I had to improve upon this somehow so my Dad got a great idea to make a piece of aluminum that was cut very thin on the outside and had a stepped inside that was about the same size as the hold in the intake. Meaning if the JB weld built up on the inside were to fail there would not be a massive leak causing possibly a fire ect. the plug could not get sucked in either due to it being bigger on the bottom of the intake. If this is all confusing here are a few pics.
Also note that we discovered another hairline crack toward the front of the inatake, after we snaded it down a bit we noticed that it grew quickly and definatley had to be leaking before which obviously must not have been great. Anyways feel free to leave me any comment of suggestions on the whole thing.
Before
After
Also I wanted to show you guys a few other little projects I have going on that are helping me to cut cost. We have a blast cabinet at work so on my lunch break I tried to blast off my headers quickly, I still have to finish the job but once these bad boys are done I'll be coating them with POR 20 and possibly even curing them in an oven before they go on.
Another huge cost saver is my FAST 90 intake. When I first got the intake about 3 years ago my buddy "sold" it to me but didn't include the new valley cover bolts that came with the intake. Therefor, when I first started torqing down the intake it cracked and caused a whole big mess which totally bummed me out. Remember this intake costs $900+ brand new. Luckly FAST sells the 3 individual parts of the intake seperate if you choose, but I didn't have time or cash for the $360 bottom half that I just cracked so we got a few ideas together and decided to epoxy a piece of sheetmetal where the crack was and completly removed the broken plastic piece. This worked great for the last few years but upon inspection this time I noticed that the epoxy was starting to flake off pretty easily now so we went back to square one. I did some searching and found a place in Detroit that does plastic welding, drove out there only to discover that because the intake is poly that its composed of many different plastics and he could not get any welding rod to stick. The guy did howeveer suggest my backup plan that I had.
My backup plan was to use JB weld, as the epoxy I had was not intended for plastic use and JB weld was also what FAST and several guys on LS1tech had recommended as well. One of these such guys used it on his own intake which saw 20lbs of boost after and had no issues whatsoever. Like always though I had to improve upon this somehow so my Dad got a great idea to make a piece of aluminum that was cut very thin on the outside and had a stepped inside that was about the same size as the hold in the intake. Meaning if the JB weld built up on the inside were to fail there would not be a massive leak causing possibly a fire ect. the plug could not get sucked in either due to it being bigger on the bottom of the intake. If this is all confusing here are a few pics.
Also note that we discovered another hairline crack toward the front of the inatake, after we snaded it down a bit we noticed that it grew quickly and definatley had to be leaking before which obviously must not have been great. Anyways feel free to leave me any comment of suggestions on the whole thing.
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
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