Glad I didn't take the car to the event at the track. Its running decent enough but I still have so many " T's " to cross.
I put a heat shield on the drivers side rack boot. Its a salvaged heat wrap that comes factory on the old Malibu rack and pinions. Conveniently, it has stainless snaps on it to make installation easier.
While I was under there I realized I have another issue.
My sway bar is laying on my oil pan. I've got 3 options...I can raise the motor with spacers at the motor mount brackets, lower the sway bar with spacers at the sway bar mount brackets, or I could shorten the spacers between my sway bar end links.
I've got to think about this...need alcohol.
When raised the sway bar isn't touching the oil pan at all. So...in theory if I shorten the end link spacers the sway bar should move off the pan. There's not a lot of room between the sway bar and the crossover pipe....raising the engine may cause issues with the intake pipe and the hood...only a little bit of clearance left.
Glad the little bit of driving I've done didn't ruin my pan.
Also, I found my power steering return line literally lays on the crossover pipe....don't know how in the hell I missed that.
Everything else is going great