yeah its all good keep on keepin on lol youll get there... my car will be dead for a while especially with the wire mod and fuel line mod... have to decide on what to do with my fuse relay box

 

Looking good man. What head gaskets did you choose?

 

Mr Gaskets. Similar to Impala, forgot what number they are.

 

Your color scheme looks awesome man, I may have to use your idea and put the MAP sensor on the back of the intake. Will this throw off the readings?

 

Thats cool so they were .026" gaskets to bump up that compression a bit!! nice.

 

It didn't for "skinnies" who is the guy I took the idea from. I doubt I'll have problems.

 

1/4/10

Today was a pain in the ***. I decided not to do the fuel lines but rather do the wiring first. Didn't get very far.

It was a headache trying to tuck the wires under the fuel rail and then bolting the POS down. The back driver side screw/hole wouldn't line up.



Finally got it but I'm still not too sure on the injectors being put in the holes properly for injectors 5 and 7. See picture, it's sticking out too high, but would go down when I pushed down on it.

Anyway here's the mess:

Drilled holes for zip ties to hold the bundle of wires up high and tight to the cowl to reduce its visibility.


Covered the holes w/ RTV so water won't drop through.




Barely visible now






Tucked the damn injector wires and cleaned up the exposed wire at the back of the rail as best as possible.
****Also see how injectors 5and7 seem way too highVVVVVVVVVVVVV


Tackling this mess tomorrow, cutting, splicing, adding wire, soldering, etc tomorrow.

 

You can dremel the intake VERY slightly to get a spot for the wires to run under the rails easier and not pinch them!

 

lol, Thanks for the help again bro.

I think I got it on there decently well, that it'll be OK. Hopefully I don't run into any problems down the road.

 

Alright, WTF?!

I'm trying to finish this damn car up, but I can't for the life of me get the passenger header back on.

When I first did my headers I put the passenger on w/o having to remove the motor mount, but now I can't fit it in with it on. My AC lines are not even on the car now, like they were then and I can't even fit them through.

So, I decided to take the motor mount bolt off, I did, lifted the engine, and it went threw. Now I can't get the proper angle to mate the header w/ the head and be flush (or parallel).

I'm so frustrated.

 

At times like this, you just need to step back and take a couple of hours to unwind. There have plenty of times I have run into issues similar to this. I got frustrated walked away and as soon as I came back later was able to correct the situation.

 

I did walk away. I slept it off.

I'm giving up, and doing my fuel lines. I'll be back to it.

 

Final Update? 3/3/2010

So, I'm pretty much finished but I've run into a bunch of little small problems, mainly fuel leaks from the lines. It's the first time I've ever done AN fittings, so I'm working on it. I think I finally got it done, but I still need to run the car for several minutes, and take it out on another test drive.

Here are the pics that I didn't bother posting up while I was working on the car. It's been a long tedious job this past month.

I actually decided to get rid of the AC, after my dad broke the box in the engine bay during torquing of the heads. Oh well.


Rerouting wires underneath the engine to create the clean bare look up top.
Bare wires, cut and lengthened, soldered and covered with heat shrink.


Covered the wires in Flame Retardant braided sleeving.










Fuel lines routed and ziptied in place.

 

Looks good man. Congratulations

 

Looking Good!

Is that fuel line a kit from Speedinc or something you put together?

Matt

 

I put the fuel line kit together. If I would have bought the SpeedInc kit I probably wouldn't have all the fuel leak issues I've had.

 

My friend, you have inspired me to do a better job cleaning up my engine bay. I will get started on it ASAP and post pictures as soon as I am done


EDIT: I just need to tuck my wires

 

The fuel line looks great!!! Although leaks suck I am sure you got them sorted out...


If you don't mind me asking how much did it cost to build that fuel line setup?

Thanks
Matt

 

around 130 that's using teflon hose not rubber.

That includes the an fittings and the fuel line adapters for this particular GM application.

Got 15ft of SS line from Ebay.

 

congrats on a job well done! looks clean...you did a lot of things the facotry should have done!