Looks good.

Might I suggest pulling off the coolant plate on the bottom of the throttle body? If you are doing the coolant bypass alteration then you don't need it.

Also, I noticed your belt routing? are you still running a tensioner? and it looks as if your waterpump will be turning the wrong direction with the way you have it .

 

maybe I'll put those blue cobra eye things in them so when I pop the hood at night it'll look funky

 

I added this part, wanted to make sure you see it.

 

Soo shinney *eyes hurting*
That looks really good.
How long did it take you to swap in. Or did you sort of just take your time and putter at it for a couple of weekends?

 

I've been working on this thing for over a year. not sure exactly on the engine swap, will have to look up other posts, because I did a lot of other stuff to it as well. Basically, I averaged about 2-3 hrs a week. that takes a long time

 

I LOVE the blue !!!!!!!!!! ....you can come over and start on mine next !

 

Posted twice before but I'm still not certain you saw it so I'll ask again:

It appears in the pics that your have tried to alter your belt routing. The way you have it will cause your waterpump to turn the wrong direction and overheat the block -- make sure and double check that.

 

I don't see a problem, only diff between the 2.8 & the 3.4 radiator is the sides the hoses go to. on the 2.8, the manifold goes to the upper pass side, on the 3.4, the manifold goes to the upper driver side. same goes for the lower hose. The belt routing is still the same for other 3.4s, I just the a/c delte and got a belt that will still allow everything to rotate the correct direction.

 

I'm not concerned at all about your radiator. My concern is only on the rotation direction of your waterpump. Are you certain they spin the opposite direction of the 2.8 motors? Water pumps are not designed to work backwards/ this is why they sell reverse rotation waterpumps for most Chevy RWD cars running sepentine belt systems.

 

yes. the 3.4 is designed to have the belt run underneath the pulley. This is the reason why when running the 2.8 accessories & front engine cover, you use the 2.8/3.1 wp. the belt is routed on top of the pulley. I'ts all good. if not, after a slew of cuss words, I'll guess I'll be doing one of these (but I don't think so )

 

Hope you don't mind me looking out for you. I guess I was wrong on that, but on the bright side, I learned something new.

 

nope, not at all, here's a pic of the 3.4 before the conversion. if you look, you can see the belt routing.

 

Totally bitchin! What kind of paint did you use on the plenum and the TB and accessory brackets? It looks anodized. Hey you guys see the anodized wheel paint from Eastwood company? It's meant for wheels, but I imagine it could be used on other things...

Ever think of getting chrome fasteners? Or the gold anodized valve cover spreaders (under the valve cover bolts)? Summit even sells the bolt head caps. I used 'em on my rear axle a while ago to set off the chrome cover I have.

 

Thanks TomP,
all paint is the 500* spray can type. the Dark blue may be the 1200* one, but caint remember now. I hit it w/some 500* clear cote & it came out shiny . A lot better looking than the flat finish in earler pics. The valve covers were done in aluminum & clearcote. the paint isn't all that thick as I scratched some off the drivers side putting in the metal fuel lines.
Edit: The fuel lines are shiny cause I weernt to town on them w/some 000 metal (brillo pad type material) I knew the name then forgot as I typed. hate that shyt
After all the dirt, grease & crud were removed, I sprayed some of the clearcote on them from "some" protection.

The light blue is PONTIAC blue, just happens to be metallic in nature. didn't use clearcote on it, just forgot to really

If you can, I would recommend having the manifolds & valve covers powedercoated & baked for a more durable finish. Maybe even the tb too. that permatex metal filler does a good job for filling in those indentations in the tb ,nudge nudge, wink wink

might do some chrome bolt caps later though.