scrmnws6

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Doing a h/c swap, so I decided to do some appearance mods as well...




I did not have time to polish the intake, that will be done over the winter.
I polished the fuel rail covers and the TB as well. They both look like chrome.

My hands were full of oil, so I did not clean up the pieces for the pictures. More pictures to come after everything will be installed.

lt1_man

looks really good. Did you take off the intake from inside the car? If sohow hard was it?
-Thanks Brandon

~JOSHUA

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Cool beans man! I guess you used a wire wheel/drill on the intake? You might want to spray some clear over the brushed finish to keep it like that for a couple years.

Glad to see the effort on the 'ole LT1. ~Joshua

scrmnws6

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I just used an engine degreaser and carb cleaner to get all the dirt off. Then I took a drill and a wire brush and went to town on it. Only took about an hour to get it to look like it is.

I originally cleaned it and started to polish sand it and polish it to look like chrome. After about 20 minutes of that, I knew that I had way more to do than I originally thought. I had a short timeframe to get this polished, and I knew I would not be able to ge tno where near the quality that I would've wanted to.

Its coming off again this winter and thats when Im going to make it look like Joshuas engine bay.

Theres more goodies that I am still holding off on. More picture of when everything will be assembled, hopefully before the weekend.

scrmnws6

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It was not hard at all to take off the car. Theres a lot of wires and plugs etc. that need to be disconnected, few bolts holding it in place, and dont forget about the fuel lines.

~JOSHUA

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Pm replied.
I wish you luck, it's a lot of work as you know. I can't wait to see the results and call if you ever need tips/help. ~Joshua

lt1_man

Yeah Iam doing spare pieces now as well. Its hard though being that the lt1 is a daily driver. I have already done the valve covers and alt.
-Brandon

scrmnws6

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^ post up some pics.

lt1_man

my camera is broke but once i get it fixed i will.
-Brandon

thesoundandthefury

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Just finished this Optispark cover today. I'm playing around with some engineering ideas to take the whole friggin' rotor and plastic centerpiece out of the unit and have the front billet cover mounted directly to the rear aluminum bracket:

Before

After



You know how I told you that you could have your throttle body looking like a perfect mirror? When you've got a good quality forged or extruded billet casting like that Holley has, you can get optical clarity like this out of it:

scrmnws6

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^That cover looks great.

The TB will have more polishing done to it. My main concern is putting the engine back together.