It has begun......Heads/Cam

[Fbomb]

its a pretty straightforward swap. If I may throw out a good idea once the waterpump is off take a shop-vac and suck out the coolant in the heads, this will save you from having to clean out the coolant from all the head bolt holes later on.

Stuff was dry when I did this to mine.

I like the color by the way.

[Nocooler]

Got the coolant sucked out of the heads and some of it out of the block today, also got the PS pump off.

I tried to break the balancer loose - my cheap impact wouldn't do it. It appears I need to adjust my ebrake as well, with my breaker bar and cheater - it was spinning the tires.

I'll have the wife stand on the brakes so I can get it loose.

Next will be the exhaust, I'm sure it'll be a pita due to the clamps I used.

[Formula Z]

yep i just recently switched over to the band clamps, much easier.

[DETROITMUSCLE]

I believe most M6 guys put the car in 6th to keep it from moving.

[Nocooler]

yep i just recently switched over to the band clamps, much easier.

I've got some uber band clamps

DETROITMUSCLE

I believe most M6 guys put the car in 6th to keep it from moving.

Thanks- I tried 1st, 4th and 6th and Reverse. The brake trick will work....

[Nocooler]

Balancer is loose now

Just got to figure out what bolt size the powerbond pulley takes, so I can use my puller.

[Nocooler]

Balancer is pulled, plugs are out, and the headers are unbolted. Next step is to drop the exhaust.

[98blackbeauty]

your making great progress

[mcalus]

That's a pretty healthy bolt on car (referring to your sig) should be pretty sweet!! Pictures!!

[Nocooler]

your making great progress

My goal was to have the heads off today - unfortunately my arms gave out after an hour of wrenching. Before my accident I would have had this done in a weekend...
Thanks for the props though, I appreciate it.

[Nocooler]

That's a pretty healthy bolt on car (referring to your sig) should be pretty sweet!! Pictures!!

Thanks - it runs pretty stout, it would have liked to get it to run 11's before the heads/cam, but I caught the go fast bug. I'll post pictures when I get the heads off. I know 1BADAIR wanted some pic's of the MWC rearend clearance.

I'd like to get a better y-pipe on it, but welding is a no go for at least another year.

[Nocooler]

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Here is one of my favorites......just to keep the picture whores happy

and check my youtube channel for videos - from stock to where it was before I tore it apart.

http://www.youtube.com/nocooler

[1BADAIR]

ohh man. gonna have to do somemore suspension tweaking

[Nocooler]

ohh man. gonna have to do somemore suspension tweaking

Hopefully it's fairly close.....I foresee tightening the front shocks up some, and getting some nice air under the fronts - hopefully not high enough to worry about hurting stuff. I'm thinking of doing the heater hose mod to the rear springs and dropping the front about 1/2" too, probably won't make a huge difference. I'm having a feeling that these bias ET streets really need a tube in them to stiffen the sidewall - but then I'll need to drill/screw my wheels.

What pic's of the MWC 9" do you need Larry? I know you wanted the upper torque arm to floor pan clearance. I'll try to get you some this weekend if you still need them.

[Formula Z]

sweet ass pic man! can you help me make mine do that? lol. nice!