Day 10
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Well over the weekend I had a catastrophe painting the valve cover. It started out being gloss black, which I couldn’t lay down a coat without getting a run. So I had my friend David paint it and he had a hard time too. So we decided to throw in a little bass boat silver metal flake in. Well, a little turned into a lot and made then entire area around the dyno room look like a disco and the valve cover look like a fishing lure. I was so disgusted I didn’t take any pictures. Anyway the motor is so close to being done. I’m waiting on UPS for my Circuit Sports oil block, and today I got the exhaust side of the motor on.
First I put the stud that came out back into the block, then attached the turbo to the manifold with a new gasket.
Next I torqued the nuts (somehow) and bent back up the locking plates.
Then I slapped the whole thing along with the exhaust gasket and the oil and water lines onto the block.
Next I torqued the manifold bolts down and added the compressor inlet pipe and the water neck.
Finally I added the o2 elbow and o2 sensor.
Tomorrow I should have the oil block and I will make some lines for the remote oil filter mount.
