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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grim 82 on July 23, 2010, 08:05:59 pm
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Tomorrow is the day that I begin the motor cleanup on the 82. It has 10k on the build, but leaks everywhere because it sat in a barn for 10 years. I have been collecting parts for a while, so tomorrow I'm pulling the motor, putting in a fel-pro gasket kit, painting everything, installing an edel performer intake, cheap o'reilly flowtech headers, and building a dual exhaust for it. I will be using some Por15 on the frame and painting some in the engine compartment also. I hope to get it done so I can drive it to work on Monday.
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definately take some pics, i just did the same thing on my 355, the pics helped a ton when putting it back together!!
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Well I wasn't able to get the exhaust built, but the motor is nice and shiny now and I was able to drive it out of the shop and park it until I can work on it tomorrow. I will post pics tomorrow. It sounds pretty terrible running straight off the headers. I picked up a couple Cherry Bomb turbos today to put behind it, and I have to build a bracket from the header bolt to the power steering pump, tie the plug wires up and out the way, dial the timing back in and top off the coolant and I should be good to go.
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It sounds pretty terrible running straight off the headers.
what???? What's wrong with you
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Terrible - as in, get out of my way the C60 grain truck is comin through ;D It keeps saying my pic files are too large. How do you shrink them down and what format do you use? I tried opening them in MS paint and saving as a .tif and a .gif but it won't let me attach those either. ???
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In paint, you have to shrink them.
i save the original files in photobucket and then paste the link. no shrinking needed.
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Thanks, I will try that and see if it works. I just got some exhaust pipe flared to fit the headers and mufflers. If all goes well tonight I should be able to at least get the mufflers on and the H pipe built. I want to build a new, higher clearance rear bumper and receiver hitch before I run the duals out the back. I also picked up some asbestos sleeves to go over the plug wires to keep them off the headers. So far I think the Flowtechs are a pretty poor fit as far as wire clearance goes, and I foresee myself replacing a few plug wires before I finally chuck them in the scrap iron barrel and buy some better ones.
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Picture test
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Sweet it worked. That was the motor before. Here is the ultimate engine hoist, the rubber glove over the carb trick, and the painted product.
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I mocked up the exhaust tonight and set the timing. Here is a pic from last night with the motor back where it belongs.
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Awesome! Now come do mine!
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lol. Only if you have air conditioning in your shop. It was a warm one.
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Well here's what I ended up doing with the power steering pump bracket. I took the 2-piece p/s, AC bracket from my 84 parts truck, scribed the paint where they mesh together, and took it off and welded it. Then I trimmed away all of the extra and left enough of a web behind it for strength, painted it up and bolted it back on. The belt tracks perfectly straight, and it's cleaner under the hood like this. I saved my original 2-piece bracket so that I will have it next summer when I hook the AC back up. Here is before, during, and after pics of the bracket.
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Having a time with posting pictures. Trying again......
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Good job man looks killer :o Someday my engine will get the royal treatment.....I kinda need to learn what all those things are under the hood do first though ha ha