1996 Camaro Z28 LT1 Project

[alone_and_insane]

Unfortunately, O'Reilly doesn't have any thread chasers. Going to have to go to another place for that.

Upon further review this afternoon, the STB and CAI look terrible I'll repaint them tomorrow. it would sure be nice if I had something I could hang them from and paint them that way.

[mcalus]

Use a few metal clothes hangers and hang them from one side of the balcony to the other. I love those stb's for the lt1, I just ordered one .

I would get new intake gaskets, they are pretty cheap. Then I used some rtv in the front and rear. Better safe then sorry

[alone_and_insane]

I'm probably going to have to hang them from a tree. If I hang them anywhere on the balcony they would be too close to the glass doors.

In other news, tonight was one of those "work two hours and accomplish nothing" kind of nights. I can't get the EGR pipe removed because there isn't enough room for a ratchet and I can only get an end wrench on there in such a way that I can't actually turn it. I'm going to need to go to Home Depot to buy a hand saw, the thing I had isn't going to work at all and I have no sawzall (or a place to plug it in even if I did). The AIR fitting on the driver's side header came off easily, but I just about gave myself a hernia trying to get the one on the passenger side loose. I doused it with WD-40 again, so we'll see if that does anything.

[mcalus]

You could get a battery operated sawzall.

[jderry]

You can get caps for the AIR, I got some brass pipe caps from HD that worked well till I put LTs on

[JoeliusZ28]

Permatex - The right stuff.

That shit is nasty(in a good way).

Yep this is what i used on mine although it is leaking slightly from the back now. I blame that on myself because i didnt dimple the china wall with a punch before applying it.

[alone_and_insane]

You can get caps for the AIR, I got some brass pipe caps from HD that worked well till I put LTs on

Well I have LTs now...why didn't the caps work when you got LTs? Or was it just that the LTs didn't have provisions for AIR?

You could get a battery operated sawzall.

The thought occurred to me, but I don't want to drop a couple hundred dollars on a tool I'm only going to need briefly, and I doubt I could rent one from O'Reilly. I'm probably going to pick up a handsaw and a pipecutter from the hardware store today, see if either of those work.

Yep this is what i used on mine although it is leaking slightly from the back now. I blame that on myself because i didnt dimple the china wall with a punch before applying it.

? I don't follow. What are you referring to? Just want to make sure I understand so I don't do the same thing (I picked up a tube of Ultra Grey yesterday)

[birdie2000]

I'll third the Right Stuff, but be warned, in my experience it makes whatever it is you're sealing very difficult to remove. But it f-ing works.

[JoeliusZ28]

When you take the intake off there is a wall at the back of the lifter valley that is notorious for leaking. Ive heard from people on here that you can improve the seal by using a punch and hammer to dimple the mating surface.

[alone_and_insane]

interesting...seems kind of counter-intuitive that damaging the mating surface would improve sealing...

[alone_and_insane]

I talked to Rich at Motor City Speed. He said a tune would be around $450, but the big thing is that he won't be able to get me in for another couple weeks (everybody else wants their tune done before the WWDC too). Will EGR and AIR being completely deleted make the car run worse without a tune? i.e., if it's back together and untuned, will it be running well enough to get to the Dream Cruise?

[meissen]

Punching small dimples in the mating surface gives the RTV sealant more "bite"

Since you're OBD2, your car won't run with the EGR deleted without the proper tune.

[alone_and_insane]

it won't run at all? D: that's not good. how am I supposed to get the car to the tuner if it doesn't run because it doesn't have a tune?

[jetice]

Could always do a mail-order tune. $315 with a $115 core, and you even have the option to overnight it here.
http://www.pcmforless.com/index.php?...per&Itemid=100

[alone_and_insane]

Eh, I've always been kind of leery about mail-order tunes. I've definitely known about PCMforless for a long time, but I've always preferred the idea of taking care of that kind of stuff in person...