Alex in Houston
02-05-2005, 09:14 PM
Finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (sure hope it's not a damn train though! :bubbrubb: )
Got the cam and heads back in/on the car about 2 weekends ago. I decided to try some of THIS (http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/spray_copper.jpg ) on my head gaskets (9333PT2) since I've read some pretty decent things about it. Don't know if it'll help any but I'll try anything once. Coated them pretty well (followed directions on the can) and they came out like THIS (http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/gasketcopper.jpg )
Slapped the AFR 165's back on and let it be for a while.
This week I mounted all my hot parts, set up my oil drains, installed my lower intake, converted over to a Fox Throttle body (cable, bracket, spacer) and picked up a second passenger side valve cover (welded a 5/8" inch bung on to it for use in my crank Case evacuation set-up I fabbed as well). Put my front accessories back in place and looked over it all
http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/twiinalmost.jpg
Just bought a Pro-M 80MM from a guy and it should be here by Friday (one can hope). I get that, some oil feed lines made, finish my cold piping (no small feat there) and I can actually make some noise!
YAAYYY ME!!
One things for sure, this is the last makeover I do for this car. I don't want to design/build/install another turbo kit for this car. I'll fix whatever I break but I'm not changing combos anymore. Too much work (I guess I'm getting old)
My girl wants a Bike (a Gixxer like mine) but I'm not for that ( I ride dangerous enough for us both, One of us has to live to take care of the kids) So I may get her a Mustang here soon (buying another house so it'll be summer at the earliest). I'll probably throw a low, low buck twin set-up on that (flipped shorties, small t-3's on a stock long block). Outside of that, I'm not building anything turbo related for a while ;)
Got the cam and heads back in/on the car about 2 weekends ago. I decided to try some of THIS (http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/spray_copper.jpg ) on my head gaskets (9333PT2) since I've read some pretty decent things about it. Don't know if it'll help any but I'll try anything once. Coated them pretty well (followed directions on the can) and they came out like THIS (http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/gasketcopper.jpg )
Slapped the AFR 165's back on and let it be for a while.
This week I mounted all my hot parts, set up my oil drains, installed my lower intake, converted over to a Fox Throttle body (cable, bracket, spacer) and picked up a second passenger side valve cover (welded a 5/8" inch bung on to it for use in my crank Case evacuation set-up I fabbed as well). Put my front accessories back in place and looked over it all
http://www.mustangmods.com/data/920/twiinalmost.jpg
Just bought a Pro-M 80MM from a guy and it should be here by Friday (one can hope). I get that, some oil feed lines made, finish my cold piping (no small feat there) and I can actually make some noise!
YAAYYY ME!!
One things for sure, this is the last makeover I do for this car. I don't want to design/build/install another turbo kit for this car. I'll fix whatever I break but I'm not changing combos anymore. Too much work (I guess I'm getting old)
My girl wants a Bike (a Gixxer like mine) but I'm not for that ( I ride dangerous enough for us both, One of us has to live to take care of the kids) So I may get her a Mustang here soon (buying another house so it'll be summer at the earliest). I'll probably throw a low, low buck twin set-up on that (flipped shorties, small t-3's on a stock long block). Outside of that, I'm not building anything turbo related for a while ;)