Engine bay pics
04-28-2004, 03:01 AM
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Engine bay pics Finally it's my turn to post pics. 
So I entered my first car show last weekend, and let me say I've got a hell of a lot more appreciation for the amount of work required to get a spotless car. In some ways I'm not happy with how it turned out (the car was still pretty dirty) but in other ways I couldn't be happier, considering what I started with.
Things I still want to do: paint the intake, polish the AC condenser, polish/paint/?? the water pump, !wire mod, maybe some nice hose ends if I really get ambitious... Those'll have to wait 'til next winter, now it's time for drivin'.
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This is what the car looked like before I started - this last pic was taken in Oct. 2003 after I'd parked it for the winter. Before you flame me for neglecting the thing, realize that up here in northern Alberta sand & gravel from the winter are left on the road until June, and with the dry summer dust was everywhere. Making things worse was the snowstorm I had to drive through the day before I parked it.
So I entered my first car show last weekend, and let me say I've got a hell of a lot more appreciation for the amount of work required to get a spotless car. In some ways I'm not happy with how it turned out (the car was still pretty dirty) but in other ways I couldn't be happier, considering what I started with. Things I still want to do: paint the intake, polish the AC condenser, polish/paint/?? the water pump, !wire mod, maybe some nice hose ends if I really get ambitious... Those'll have to wait 'til next winter, now it's time for drivin'.
Click the pics to get a larger version.
This is what the car looked like before I started - this last pic was taken in Oct. 2003 after I'd parked it for the winter. Before you flame me for neglecting the thing, realize that up here in northern Alberta sand & gravel from the winter are left on the road until June, and with the dry summer dust was everywhere. Making things worse was the snowstorm I had to drive through the day before I parked it.
04-28-2004, 11:42 AM
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Good job on tidying up, the car looks clean.
04-28-2004, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Xsta Z 28
But it is a never ending process . . .
Oh how true is this! But I did get a good compliment yesterday.
I took my car to get the oil changed, and the tech came in and
asked me if this was a daily driver. I said yeah, why? He said,
damn, that's one clean engine, how do you keep it that way?
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04-28-2004, 08:21 PM
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Nice! What did you use to plug the hole on the driver's side of the airlid? And where did you get the filter for the hose that used to come out of it? I'd like to do that to mine, having that hose come off the airlid bugs the **** out of me...
04-29-2004, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by travisnd
its just a small plug from lowes. you can get the filter at any local auto parts store.
04-30-2004, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by stoleit
oh ur my hero! I wanted to know that so i could avoid doing what silverghost suggested. Not to mention I want ur engine bay! It will be mine...oh yes...It will be mine...
yea, alot of people with 35th LE's have wanted to duplicate my design and do the engine bay the same.
04-30-2004, 08:10 PM
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04-30-2004, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 2FAST4U
Spurkey, you're car looks great so far. I remember last year at my first show I was in the same boat as you, I went there thinking my car was clean, and man I learned that there is a ton of mods to do to the engine bay, good luck.
05-01-2004, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 2FAST4U
Now why didn't I think of that... travisnd, one more thing - what are those red connector things on the driver's side of the trottle body and FRC? They look like T-pieces or red wire loom, do you have any closer pics?
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Originally Posted by Spurkey
Now why didn't I think of that... travisnd, one more thing - what are those red connector things on the driver's side of the trottle body and FRC? They look like T-pieces or red wire loom, do you have any closer pics?
they are T connectors, i'm too drunk right now to show you a closer photo, i'll try tomorrow
