for those of you paying attention to this thread, ive been making slow progress while i've been waiting on the powdercoater, but now i have a deadline: the first "factory efi class" event is april 18, want to have all mechanical bugs worked out, and hopefully tuned by then (assuming canada takes its weather back without us deporting celine dion and that bieber jackass).
got the new pioneer balancer in last week, its a nice piece, and the outer shell is held on with a snap ring so if the rubber ever does rot out, it wont just fly apart (hence the sfi rating i suppose)
easy to read engraving too
also got my intake and valve covers back from the powder coat.
changed my mismatched bbk 65mm tb/70mm egr spacer for a full 70mm accufab setup, though if i had known the intake opening was 75mm before i ordered it, i would have gone that way (tfs must have started cutting them bigger at some point, i thought years ago they were advertised as 70mm?). also blocked off the egr ports and plugged in an egr dummy plug (the 1250s3's block em off at the heads, kinda pointless to have the valve there). also slotted out the holes in the throttle cable bracket to be able to ditch the 3/8" spacer i was using.
after a little "mecahnics lube", aka
ended up with a plate of plug wire spaghetti
thats a taylor "custom-fit" set, all but three of them are between about 2-6" too long. since im trying to do things the right way, i grabbed some extra terminals and shortened em up.
and where i left off today, new hood seal, h-pipe back on, and a new bbk cai to replace the cheap pos mac one i had on there.
all thats left is the accessories, radiator/fan, hood, and then fill fluids/bleed brakes. and hope this 3" of snow we got last night melts soon so i can open the door while i rebuild the rear ( because friction mod STINKS).
got the new pioneer balancer in last week, its a nice piece, and the outer shell is held on with a snap ring so if the rubber ever does rot out, it wont just fly apart (hence the sfi rating i suppose)
easy to read engraving too
also got my intake and valve covers back from the powder coat.
changed my mismatched bbk 65mm tb/70mm egr spacer for a full 70mm accufab setup, though if i had known the intake opening was 75mm before i ordered it, i would have gone that way (tfs must have started cutting them bigger at some point, i thought years ago they were advertised as 70mm?). also blocked off the egr ports and plugged in an egr dummy plug (the 1250s3's block em off at the heads, kinda pointless to have the valve there). also slotted out the holes in the throttle cable bracket to be able to ditch the 3/8" spacer i was using.
after a little "mecahnics lube", aka
ended up with a plate of plug wire spaghetti
thats a taylor "custom-fit" set, all but three of them are between about 2-6" too long. since im trying to do things the right way, i grabbed some extra terminals and shortened em up.
and where i left off today, new hood seal, h-pipe back on, and a new bbk cai to replace the cheap pos mac one i had on there.
all thats left is the accessories, radiator/fan, hood, and then fill fluids/bleed brakes. and hope this 3" of snow we got last night melts soon so i can open the door while i rebuild the rear ( because friction mod STINKS).