Hugger Z
Official Motown Events Director
Updates from Tuesday 04Sep07
Thanks everyone. Made more progress last night but ran into some things that slowed me down.
Had to re-route some wiring that was out of place when the k-member went in on the RH side. And found one of the turbo coolant lines also on the wrong side of the k-member on the LH side. Corrected those (which took a while due to no space to move a wrench!), and moved on to the motor mount bolts. The RH side went in nice and easy. LH side was a Beeeyotch!!!! Had to phone a friend and Dave (mxracercam) came to the rescue again. While waiting for Dave I reinstalled the cooling fans. Once Dave arrived it took the both of us to wrestle that bolt into place. Me reefing on the prybar moving the BMR motor mount, and Dave pushing on the bolt to slide it in. I was curled up under the car using my knees on the brake rotor for leverage. :lol: Whew! Don't need to workout this week. I am sore from all of this wrenching!
I also bent my prybar in the process. I am like a mini hulk! :_slide_: Next item was to tighten down the starter.
Once that debacle was behind me I tightened down the manifolds to the heads and rechecked clearances under the car. Then I finally started installing the turbo charge pipes. Got the LH side set into place. Still need to finish the brake lines with the BMR K-Member install as the LH charge pipe bolts to the brake line bracket.
Also had another friend Chris (Irocss85 from LS1tech) stop by at the end of the night and finally got my fuel sending unit out so I can install my racetronix pump. Thanks man! That was a pain and just needed even more persuasion than we were already giving it. aka a bigger hammer! :lol:
Also snapped a pic of the radiator overflow bottle. Just looks too nice not to show off.
Thanks everyone. Made more progress last night but ran into some things that slowed me down.
Had to re-route some wiring that was out of place when the k-member went in on the RH side. And found one of the turbo coolant lines also on the wrong side of the k-member on the LH side. Corrected those (which took a while due to no space to move a wrench!), and moved on to the motor mount bolts. The RH side went in nice and easy. LH side was a Beeeyotch!!!! Had to phone a friend and Dave (mxracercam) came to the rescue again. While waiting for Dave I reinstalled the cooling fans. Once Dave arrived it took the both of us to wrestle that bolt into place. Me reefing on the prybar moving the BMR motor mount, and Dave pushing on the bolt to slide it in. I was curled up under the car using my knees on the brake rotor for leverage. :lol: Whew! Don't need to workout this week. I am sore from all of this wrenching!
I also bent my prybar in the process. I am like a mini hulk! :_slide_: Next item was to tighten down the starter.Once that debacle was behind me I tightened down the manifolds to the heads and rechecked clearances under the car. Then I finally started installing the turbo charge pipes. Got the LH side set into place. Still need to finish the brake lines with the BMR K-Member install as the LH charge pipe bolts to the brake line bracket.
Also had another friend Chris (Irocss85 from LS1tech) stop by at the end of the night and finally got my fuel sending unit out so I can install my racetronix pump. Thanks man! That was a pain and just needed even more persuasion than we were already giving it. aka a bigger hammer! :lol:
Also snapped a pic of the radiator overflow bottle. Just looks too nice not to show off.
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