Reply With QuoteI'm eager too! In for the play-by-play
Second post updated. Hoping to have the car running by Sunday night!
I'm eager too! In for the play-by-play
"As I lay rubber down to street, I pray for traction I can keep. But if I spin and begin to slide, please oh please protect my ride."
One-off SRT Top Mount Manifold - GT3076R
My Ruckus Build
Little teaser pic:
Picking this up tomorrow.
Ouch I see troubles in the future lining the dp and dt if u ever remove either one.
Why no flex
That was fast. looks great too. I also believe it will just be a little more effort to line things up but nonetheless it looks good.Originally Posted by aLmk
Little teaser pic:
Picking this up tomorrow.
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it looks good yes but... but...
Meant to add in post but forgot, the flex pipe wasnt going to fit in that space. It turned out that it was a slightly larger diameter so a pipe would have has to be welded into it to weld it to the flange and that just made it too long to fit. I'm really not to concerned with lining things up, I know two other people that have recirculated dumptube a very similar to this with no flex pipe and they have no problems. I'm going to just install it as is since it is cocked correctly and I can get the whole assembly in place as long as the subframe is off, which it is.
As always reassmebly takes longer than you plan, especially when you are overly anal about things. But tonight, at the very end I hit a snag, that could not be remedied... I could not, for the life me, find my valve cover gasket. I have the receipt, but I seriously cannot find the damn gasket. I searched the whole house
I also need to fix my exhaust, as it is resting hard against the frame of the car, I think once the subframe was back up and all the mounts were in, it moved the motor enough to through the exhaust alignment off. This is extra lame because the recirculated gate may prevent me from being able to do what I need... Car probably won't be finished or even worked on for a few days, I have to take care of some other things.
Last edited by aLmk; 09-16-2013 at 07:46 AM.
Dang thats very bad news man....
Gl doh......
Well some good news for once!! I was able to get the exhaust to fit ok by loosening the slip joint and twisting that piece to a different position that mated better to the downpipe. So honestly it not fitting at first was a blessing in disguise because the downpipe has more clearance than it ever has from the subframe, and the exhaust doesn't bang against the underbody of the car at all, even if I move it a lot. Also, picked up another valve cover gasket today
Pretty much everything is done, I just need to put oil in it, connect the steering column, add/burp coolant, and torque the axle nuts. I only had time to put a tad more than an hour on the car today, so this is as far as I got. I may or may not have time in the next few days to get it completed, but I have a feeling I'll force myself to have time
Some other pictures I snapped from yesterday and today:
Even the tiny filter was a tight fit!
This is the clearance I was talking about, tough to get a good picture, but it has a lot more room than ever before:
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