Here are some pictures of the Valve Cover polished BLING installed with all new hardware
Everything was going great.. I finished up everything and was tightening the last bolt. It just wouldn’t seem to snug up… and then it happened…
Sheered the bolt off 😦
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I haven’t had a chance to take the valve cover back off again to see if there is a stub that I can get some vice grips on, or if I will have to trill/tap the hole…. Good Times!!
I was able to get the pipes test fitted and trimmed… They are all good to go!!
Now I just need to make my hole/bracket for the BOV down by the Intercooler. Hopefully I’ll have that done tonight. I was also able to get a few more things tightened up and ready to go.
I’ll be making the PS feed and return hoses tonight, and hook up the fuel return. Here are the pictures of the intercooler pipes in place
Went up to Fourstar last night and Frank stayed until 9pm to finish off my intercooler pipe fab and tack welds since he promised them to me for end of day Friday.. Thanks Frank!!
Initial test fit is pretty darn good, only a little bit of trimming will be needed. I’ll post up pictures once I get them properly fitted.
After talking to Frank, He suggested running my BOV down beside my Intercooler. He says he’ll take care of the tuning for me so that venting to the atmosphere won’t be a problem. That way the pipes will look cleaner in the engine bay 🙂
For Father’s day I was given a go-ahead for $300 worth of parts 🙂 So I have these on order:
I managed to get the PS pump installed. Man that was a biotch trying to get the pump back in the bracket while not marking any of the paint or powder coat. I was fairly successful on not marking things up.
The whole front of the car is good to go..
– Rad, plugs tightened… check
– Fans, wiring and anodized fittings… check
– Radiator hose with polished hose ends… check
– All brackets, PS pump, Alternator tightened up… check
– Belt back on… check
– PS high pressure feed line routing… check
I was also able to get the fuel lines cleaned out and tightened. The FPR fittings are all tightened now too.
Today I’ll finish off connecting the wires to the starter and clean out the braided fuel lines to make sure there isn’t any anti-seize left in the lines from the fittings. I should be able to also snug up the orb ends in the Y-block and the Fuel Pressure Regulator.
I’ll try and get the PS pump installed and run the P&L braided PS feed line. While I’m waiting for my intercooler pipes to be finished, I’ll turn some of my focus to the trunk.
You can see some of the progress that I’ve made there as well. After I get the two enclosures sealed, I’ll connect them together so that there isn’t a big gap between them.
And of course, they will be covered in Carbon Fiber too!!
I also have my power steering pump and tank back from the welder’s. They welded on the -6 and -10 fittings onto the tank and it, and the other brackets for the tank and the coolant reservoir tank, have been dropped of at the polisher’s to get a nice mirror shine. They also welded on a -10 fitting onto the PS pump for my feed line.
The fabricator also made me up some nice -6 male ends welded to some nipples so that I can connect to the stock fuel lines for the feed and return.
I decided that I wasn’t going to polish the PS pump and Throttle Body but paint them instead. I think they turned out pretty nice. Now I just need to pick up some new screws for the the throttle body for attaching the sensors. The old ones just look like crap.
I made a BUNCH of progress yesterday!!!
I took the advice of others and extended the panel to cover more of the strut tower. I couldn’t get all the way back but I did get it to go back a fair bit. The tricky part was that there is a bulge at the top of the tower so you can’t just slide something slim enough town over the tower…. it gets blocked by the bulge.
So I did a little engineering on the panel and I think I made a good compromise. The panel is all finished now and painted black. It needs to be painted black because when you put the Carbon Fiber cloth on it, some of the material below it will show through the weave.
It’s sanded down to about 80 grit right now which is good enough considering all I’ll be doing is spray gluing the CF cloth onto it. I actually probably did a nicer finish job on it than I needed to but oh well.
I’ll let the paint cure for a day or two before I attempt to glue the CF cloth onto it.
I was able to get the piece going down to the frame glued into place tonight:
I also was able to get some cardboard wrapped in tinfoil taped into place on the strut tower part. This was a section that I wasn’t really able to get to when I was first adding the fiberglass when the panels were in the car.
This little piece will act as a backing piece so that I can lay on some strips of fiberglass matt to form the shape that I’m looking for and then pull the cardboard away once it hardens.
Hopefully tomorrow night I’ll be able to get both the strut tower piece laid up in fiberglass and also the new panel I’ve added blended in with body filler to create a nice radius.
Then I might actually be able to lay down some carbon fiber this weekend.. Now that would make a good fathers day
Time for some more crafty-ness! I was able to cut out my plastic piece that will extend down from the panel tray to the frame. I’m keeping the template for the passenger’s side.
Then I cut some aluminum angle brackets and drilled them and scuffed them up with 40 grit so that the construction adhesive has something to stick to. This should be all cured by tomorrow after work when I glue the plastic panel in place. Wait one more day after that and I can do some of the body work to blend the top and side piece together.
The TMBLER 