LS6 intake painted and ready for install
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LS6 intake painted and ready for install Picked up the intake from Matt (fastdroptop) last week. Spent the week after work sanding the intake and getting it ready for Primer. I used a high build primer and sanded it. I could have done more sanding, but it came out just fine for me. Anyway, sprayed it with an Aluminum and cleared it a few hours ago. Now just have to pick up the 01+ coolant hoses and I am ready to install.
Primered
Painted with clear
My paint booth setup!!
Painted it per Parbreaks instructions on the site. Thanks for the tips Parbreak!! I could have dove into sanding it more, but I wasn't that concerned with it being perfectly smooth.
Primered
Painted with clear
My paint booth setup!!
Painted it per Parbreaks instructions on the site. Thanks for the tips Parbreak!! I could have dove into sanding it more, but I wasn't that concerned with it being perfectly smooth.
Looks great! F@ck the '01 coolant lines though! Why run the risk of not cooling the #7 chamber and getting detonation when you can run your stock (better flowing) coolant lines???
Yes, I am speaking from experience...
I laid 3M double sided tape down on my stock coolant lines (sticky side up, the bottom I did NOT pull the paper off so it wasn't sticky)...
put the intake on there...
stuck the excess 3M tape to the outsides of the intake (just to make sure it was transfering...
pulled the intake back off...
ground down (with the dremel) the places that the casting flash (plastic on intake bottom) would interefere...
and installed that bad boy!
It takes under 10 minutes with the Dremel and is MUCH better (for your engine) than using the '01 lines AND it saves you the $30-$50
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Yes, I am speaking from experience...
I laid 3M double sided tape down on my stock coolant lines (sticky side up, the bottom I did NOT pull the paper off so it wasn't sticky)...
put the intake on there...
stuck the excess 3M tape to the outsides of the intake (just to make sure it was transfering...
pulled the intake back off...
ground down (with the dremel) the places that the casting flash (plastic on intake bottom) would interefere...
and installed that bad boy!
It takes under 10 minutes with the Dremel and is MUCH better (for your engine) than using the '01 lines AND it saves you the $30-$50
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Originally Posted by DEMONBIRD
Looks great! F@ck the '01 coolant lines though! Why run the risk of not cooling the #7 chamber and getting detonation when you can run your stock (better flowing) coolant lines???
Yes, I am speaking from experience...
I laid 3M double sided tape down on my stock coolant lines (sticky side up, the bottom I did NOT pull the paper off so it wasn't sticky)...
put the intake on there...
stuck the excess 3M tape to the outsides of the intake (just to make sure it was transfering...
pulled the intake back off...
ground down (with the dremel) the places that the casting flash (plastic on intake bottom) would interefere...
and installed that bad boy!
It takes under 10 minutes with the Dremel and is MUCH better (for your engine) than using the '01 lines AND it saves you the $30-$50!
Yes, I am speaking from experience...
I laid 3M double sided tape down on my stock coolant lines (sticky side up, the bottom I did NOT pull the paper off so it wasn't sticky)...
put the intake on there...
stuck the excess 3M tape to the outsides of the intake (just to make sure it was transfering...
pulled the intake back off...
ground down (with the dremel) the places that the casting flash (plastic on intake bottom) would interefere...
and installed that bad boy!
It takes under 10 minutes with the Dremel and is MUCH better (for your engine) than using the '01 lines AND it saves you the $30-$50
!Well hell I might just try that!! I think you put in another thread that you did that but you didn't say how. I do believe I will do that and spend the money on the New knock sensors instead of the line. So you haven't had any problems and how long ago was this?
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Originally Posted by 1SicV8
lol do u really paint there with all the dirt/straw?
dont u get dust in ur paint...
looks goot btw
dont u get dust in ur paint...
looks goot btw
Actually with the rain we got from the Tropical storm there wasn't anyway the straw would blow how wet it was. But also there wasn't any wind and nothing got in the paint. I was more worried about bugs. They seem to love clear coat!!
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Originally Posted by Sgt. Spuds
It looks great! Hope you didnt get any overspray on anything though. Im constantly getting yelled at for getting overspray in places haha.
I got a little bit of primer on some of that area, but the wife never goes back there so she won't see it. After I noticed the primer on it I wrapped a peice of Carpet Foam around it so it wouldn't get worse.
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Originally Posted by FirehawkNS
Well hell I might just try that!! I think you put in another thread that you did that but you didn't say how. I do believe I will do that and spend the money on the New knock sensors instead of the line. So you haven't had any problems and how long ago was this?
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#7 is the weak point cause of running leaner, not just overheating. and don't even think about trying to do what demonbird described with the FAST intake. u even gotta change out the valley cover bolts for it
Originally Posted by Phoenix 5.7
#7 is the weak point cause of running leaner, not just overheating. and don't even think about trying to do what demonbird described with the FAST intake. u even gotta change out the valley cover bolts for it
Who ever said anything about doing that with a FAST intake?
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I got it on!! Took me about 3 and a half hours with a few breaks for water.Before
During
Finished Product
So far everything went off without any problems. I was so worried about a leak or the oil pressure sending unit breaking as a lot report when doing this, but everything went very well.
Thanks Demonbird for your tip. Seems like it worked great and saved me some dough. I really would have liked a picture of where you shaved so I was going to take one, but my batts in the camera went dead. By the time I got batts and breaked for a few minutes I forgot to take the picture of it shaved down!
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Originally Posted by udlose99ta
looks good, hows the power difference?
Very noticeable difference through the RPM. I think this will really help the Headers/ory scream. I didn't get a chance to get on it like I wanted, but through second it felt like it would never stop pulling up top.
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Originally Posted by FirehawkNS
Very noticeable difference through the RPM. I think this will really help the Headers/ory scream. I didn't get a chance to get on it like I wanted, but through second it felt like it would never stop pulling up top.