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Stopped at the shop yesterday. Front and rear bumpers were in the booth painted. Hood is being wet sanded and will be ready for paint today I imagine. Front driver fender just needs a quick sand and spray to blend the rest of the front clip in.
Finally started back on the car this weekend. Since the hood is pin on now, I wanted to be able to move the hood out of the way when working on the car. So I got another set of Aerocatch pins and made a piece to mount it on the wall.
Got to work getting the rails and injectors back on the manifold, along with the other fittings. Decided that it was going to be tight in the back for a low dollar style map sensor, so I drilled and tapped a 1/8 pipe port on the front of the low ram. Got some new fittings for the fuel rails installed, just need to make a new crossover line, along with return and feed off the back of the rails in the cowl.
Needed to cut a little more of the cowl out so the manifold could be set straight down in place. Also started connecting the HCR harness to the motor to see how everything would be routed nicely. I found myself trying to mount the holley in the cabin of the car and then deal with the harness in the engine bay, but this is obviously not the way to go about it.. So finally decided on its final resting place in the glovebox opening. It is mounted underneath where the airbag is on the glovebox frame so when the box is open, it is accessible. Had to make a hole in the back of it for the harness to pass through, but I am a lot happier with this now. I pulled the rest of the harness into the engine bay so only the 2 canbus leads, the two ecu plugs, and the relay/fuse box would be in the cabin.
Got the manifold placed back on the motor for fuel lines. Found my existing feed line on the car still works which is nice. Had to make a new return line from the passenger side rail to the regulator. The front crossover is going to be a pain due to my vacuum pump suction line crossing in front of it. Gonna need to play with some different fitting/hose end combinations. IAT is mounted in the air pan as well. Probably the easiest task so far on this lol.
My other conundrum was getting the "corvette" dash pad insert back in place. If anyone has ever had the dash apart, you see how the insert is attached to the airbag frame. Now I did have a neat little mount for the holley where the airbag was, but the harness didn't quite work out in there and my original insert didn't get trimmed so well and kind of looked mehh. So I bought a new insert to work with. The trick was going to be getting this on the airbag frame but without the airbag. The side brackets for this to all come together are actually sandwiched around the ignitor canister for the bag.. Which I was a bit leery on how I was going to separate them (and/or discharge/blow up the canister haha). Looked at the overall shell of it that houses the bag (which I removed already) and found the mounting brackets that fasten it to the dash frame line up with the case without the other canister plates.. I just need to find the rest of the screws. But these are 10-24 screws if I do need to find a few more.
I hate that my airbag cover/insert looks like crap. Thanks for figuring out how to make it not look like crap. Now I guess I gotta try to find that piece for sale somewhere…
I hate that my airbag cover/insert looks like crap. Thanks for figuring out how to make it not look like crap. Now I guess I gotta try to find that piece for sale somewhere…
You should be able to find all of it for 50-150 on ebay lol
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