Plum 95 engine project

[meissen]

Yeah, Jeff. Little bit of sand paper, then wiped with alcohol, then painted.

They had the clear coat sitting next to the silver paint so I figured why not - it was the same brand and high temp. I figured clear coating it would make it look at least a little better than flat silver. This whole painting thing has just been more of a test and a "why not" -

but hey $25 is all I've invested in my dad's pacesetter long tubes + y-pipe including the headers themselves.


These are only meant to get dad by until we can get of LPPs on there.

[98blackbeauty]

Are You done yet?

[meissen]

Didn't get it all done - the header install took a LOT longer than I thought because I was trying to make the exhaust manifold bolts work (couldn't afford buying a true set of header bolts) but we made a trip to ACE and spent like $10 on round head hex bolts for the passenger side. It was still a real pain in the dick but we got it to work atleast.

BIG THANKS TO DAN AND KYLE for coming out and helping me with this! If I would've been doing it all by myself I probably wouldn't have even finished the header install.

And now the only pics I have - where it's at right now:

[mcssmostwanted]

**** the oild sender,.

[s.reef]

Lookin good guys!

[LSxDreamer]

Looking Good!!!

[bigjon88]

Man I have 4 sets of header bolts o.0

[MP81]

I didn't take many pictures either, cause I was helpin out. But I got a few in progress pictures. Unfortunately, I didn't catch any of Dan flipping someone off, or him and Brian going at it wise, so, I apologize in advance.

[Fbomb]

Wow LT1 headers look like a pain. Good work guys.

[meissen]

that is the first i have seen of that new hood larry, any pics of it with the hood closed? i think i may have missed the thread when you added that.

Pics in his album

http://www.mifbody.com/vbulletin/alb...pictureid=2336


Note this is before my dad adjusted the passenger side headlight cover.

[98blackbeauty]

not talkin the expansion chamber the paint did not flake off that, i only painted the header leading up to it. im not shure about the exhaust temps being higher on a four stoke....alot higher rpms on a 2 stroke so more exhaust fireings per set amount of time.

but this is irrelevent to this thread, I don't want to thread jack.... i just wanted to share my success with BBQ paint for high heat.

that is the first i have seen of that new hood larry, any pics of it with the hood closed? i think i may have missed the thread when you added that.

John look at my album there are pic's there right after I got car painted, didn't have hood totally adjusted on passenger side

[meissen]

Yeah, just a recap on the night...

I started working on the car when I got home from work taking the driver's exhaust manifold off. I peeled the manifold gasket off, coppersprayed it again, and went to stick it back onto the engine when I remembered the header gaskets are different than manifold gaskets. DAMN YOU GM/AFTERMARKET!!!!!

Ran to the O'Reilleys outside my subdivision and they actually had Mr Gasket chevy header gaskets. The size wasn't perfect, but it worked. By that time, Kyle and Dan got there and we started bolting the driver's header on.

We got the driver's header all bolted down except for one bolt when Dan realized "Oh shit... when I installed this on my engine I had to back all the bolts off so I could slide the bolt in for this primary..." So we had to basically undo the bolts and do it all over again.

So we move to the passenger side when we realized the exhaust manifold bolts wouldn't work because the head was too big. We ran to ACE just before they closed at 8pm and got 7 round bolts with a hex in the center. They worked except for the #4 exhaust bolt - the primary was still too close to get the bolt in place. So, downstairs we went and Dan used the dremel to grind part of the head down so he could atleast get the bolt past the primary and into place.

Then the next challenge - that same bolt was so close to where the primary bends that we couldn't get a normal allen wrench into it. So, we sacrificed one of dad's allen wrenches and ground the end of the allen wrench off so we were left with a 1" allen wrench that we could get into the head of the bolt and then put a wrench on it to turn it.

So yeah, that took forever to get those headers installed.

[meissen]

Moved the exhaust temp discussion to a new thread - c'mon guys, let's try to keep this at least a little on topic...

[steddy]

Now that's a good son! Leave for FLA, car's screwed. Came back and be able to drive again. Big for brian (and Dan and Kyle)!

[MP81]

Oh...and the torque arm/driveshaft didn't help matters...