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TBatt · 06-12-2016, 10:30 PM

Well it's Sunday night and after a couple of very good margarita's I've decided to update the thread.

Lots of interruptions during the build so it isn't going very fast.

Friday was the oil cooler day and it went pretty smooth. The hardest part is getting the sandwich plate on with the hoses attached. You have to be very careful that you don't cross-thread the coupler bolt. Fired the engine up and no leaks. The rest of Friday was taking the intake manifold off before heading out to a concert recording which went off without a single problem.

Saturday morning my buddy Jim came over at 7am (yes, he is that good of a friend!). We started tackling the fuel pump mods. That wasn't fun at all. It is so hard to get to and difficult to maneuver the fuel pump out. The big hold up was getting the saddle tank hose off. The locking clip had rotated around where I could not get to it. I finally got a small screwdriver in there to rotate the clip so I could squeeze it. Wile this was going on gas was dripping on the blue O-ring that you are not supposed to get gas on........ as soon as I got the pump out I quickly washed the O-ring with soap and water. I'm not sure which caused the O-ring to swell but it did and it would not allow the pump to sit down low enough to get the screws back on the retaining ring, of which one of them rolled off into the lost screw void and was never seen again. Working on the fuel pump is best done with two people. There are several three handed moments and even a couple of four handed ones too. Jim and I worked till noon and then had to stop while I went to a another recording job that afternoon. We had gotten all of the fuel system work done including the injectors so it was a good stopping point.

Sunday morning I started back on my own getting the new intake manifold on. I found it very easy to do. I have a inspection camera (Harbor Freight $69.99 and no person working on cars shouldn't have one) and it made the job MUCH easier. All in all, I had the new intake on in about an hour. I would gladly do two, maybe three of those jobs compared to the fuel pump. Maybe it's just me, but the fuel pump was a huge PITA compared to the intake.

Thing progressed right along until I got the air-to-air intercooler. I found that the kit is difficult to figure out without instructions. TopgunZ is sending them to me tomorrow. I just could not figure out what silicone coupler went where. Very confusing even looking at the pictures posted. Me not being able to figure this out lead to the margaritas. I was hungry and had to eat so my wife and I headed to our favorite Mexican restaurant.

Tomorrow I hope to finish everything up except the gauge installation. I'll probably save that for next weekend.

I'll add in pictures later. I just realized that my camera was set to high res and the pictures are too big to upload. Time to do some resizing in Photoshop. Here are some pics from Jim's Iphone.