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Looking good. I want that engine!!!!

 

That is a very clean looking peice of chicken you got there! How'd you get that engine bay so shiny?!

 

LOL, are you serious?

 

That's very nice. Congrats on the camera!

 

Should I not be?

 

The work required is fairly involved.

Heres a play by play on what I did.

1. remove motor
2. remove all other parts that easily unbolt
3. detach harness 90% and leave it hang free
4. soak remaining parts in bay and all painted surfaces with a very liberal amount of Castrol Superclean, rinse
5. repeat soaking but now brush down with hard plastic brush, rinse
6. repeat soaking but now rub everything down with a very abrasive scotchbrite pad, rinse
7. allow to dry, then rub all painted surfaces down with steel wool, use compressed air to blow clean
8. remove k-memeber, a-arms, steering linkage, and any other hard metal parts
9. sandblast all hard metal parts and then coat with POR-15
10. rattle can enigne bay with 2 0r 3 coats of automotive grade spray paint.
11. reinstall coated hard parts
12. hand detail all other parts that were removed with motor, paint as needed
13. snadblast all accessory brackets and strut mounts, then coat with POR-15
14. in my case I was installing a fresh motor that was fully detailed on the engine stand prior to install
15. replace as many other parts as possible: alternator, alluminum h2o pump, new AC compressr, coolant tank, etc...
16. hand polish intake parts: the Superram for me
17. hand polish all AC lines
18. soak all old bolts and fastners in a couple gallons of gas for a couple days
19. reassemble all removed parts with a bunch of TLC
20. add choice dress up parts to tie it all together

I think thats most of the process at least, hope that helps.


Getting an engine bay to look like that takes far more then a weekends time.

 

saw that coming...

 

Props to ya Bro! The car looks awesome!

Mike

 

Yeah...nice setup you got there ....Id give you a run for your money too!I should be posting some pics of my camaro soon.
Finally got a digital camera.

 

Nice pics, when do I get a piece of her?

 

I saw this duel coming when we met last week

 

Ominous, that is one heck of a car. Love the Telstars with the black paint. That reminds me of the Formy that Toby Hess built.

I have been toying with the color for my Formula's repaint (currently "GM Express-Peel Maui Blue") and your ride adds another color to the possibilities. The engine bay is amazing. Talk about a job well done!

Peace,

K

 

Well, Speedworld is open all year round, pleanty of opps. to get some runs in. Come n get some!

Actually if your interested I will be hitting a dyno here within the next week if you wanna make a couple pulls with me, get the computer all dialed in before the track.

 

Actually the DR/skinny combo belongs to ESAMS.

Since he put his Z28 into the rear end of a Saturn I decided to put the rims and tires to good use.

My billet 17"s and 275/40/ZRs are stacked up in the garage, they dont hook worth a **** anyway, but the drag radials aint that much better anyway, oh well.

 

You gotta go Gun-Metal Grey yo! I saw a bird the other day that was Gun-Metal with a jet-black wrap around wing and I about creamed myself! :rockon:

Bruce (90RS305)

 

Sounds like you were almost killed there. (creamed = killed, it's early on a Saturday....haha)

True, the medium/darker greys are nice. My problem is that I had another of my cars in grey primer for a year and now when I see a grey car I think "primer" since there's no metalflake. Having just painted my first car (in a driveway booth, in the dustiest place in California), there is no way I want to fool with metallic paint. I was happy to have good results with simple white! heh

I have a F0rd 4.6 GT wing for the Bird (bolts right up, cheap as a newspaper) but that will be body color. If I found one of the original Firebird wings in that black rubber-esque material (at an Earthly price) I would jump on it. I agree, the black wing is a good contrast to the gray paint.

I still look at the black car above and drool

K

 

Black is the way to go!

 

foshizzle

 

Black by far is the tuffest color to paint a muscle car.

However I feel that black needs to be the color of the interior as well.

I also like my "limo tinted" black windows.

HHHHMMMMMM........Do we see a pettern here?

Lastly the engine bay in my opinion is also best in black. It really forces the effect of dress-up and polished parts. Any polished parts or brightly painted colors are really set-off with a black backdrop.

Once you go black you never go back!

 

OOPS MY BAD!!!

I dont have any interior pics up!!!

I get some for yall tomorrow.

The interior is 98% mint, like 2or3 flaws away from factory new.

 

Say that again and I'll lock this thread! j/k

 

very nice car!! almost looks like mine!! it used to be black too.

 

Thats a frikin awsome car, OMINOUS_87!
I love the striped down look and high stance of the 2nd and 3rd gen formulas! bigs and littles are kick *** also.

 

True, it would involve a broad approach to each panel, as in not looking for individual dings and waves but skimming the entire panel and longboarding it down. I have an 18" board now and should have good luck with the long strokes...you know what I mean

This car has the grey/black gut, which should work well. It will be an easier job to repaint once the new house is ready (3 car with a drivethrough to the slab for rolling the car out for outside sanding).

I ran the gunmetal idea past my fiancee last night, and of course now we BOTH don't have a definite color in mind. Thansk a lot folks

Peace,

K

 

Dude those rears look good with about 1.5 inches less gap than ours do with the 275/50/15's. Are they 27's, or did you lower the rear, or both?

 

Now, now Bruce, play nice!

 

Yeah, some bad bad birdies!

What she got under the hood?

 

I am, you should see me be a bully...

If I ever did repaint my Camaro, it'd be metallic blue w/ double-wide white racing stripes. I think 1st and 3rd gens look friggin' sweet like that!

Bruce (90RS305)

 

yeah the rear is lowered and the front has uncut moroso trick
springs . here is a rear view

 

350 zz4 block 18cc inverted dome gm performance pistons ,pm rods , gm performance 235@50 480 lift hydraulic roller cam,64cc l98 tpi heads from the old motor with full port job w/ stock valve size edelbrock rpm intake ,750 holley dp with proform mainbody ,
hooker shorty headers . custome built y pipe into 3 inch hooker cat back. trans is a 700r with a 3200 stall 91/2 inch midwest convertor. with 4:10 gears in the rear. and if that aint enough 100
shot of n.o.s.

best 1/8 so far is a 6.90 with a 1.57 60 foot on those drag radials.

 

1.57 60. Holy ***** that is getting closer to my wheel standing impossible wet dream.

P H A T !

 

yeah it will ****** em up about 6 to 10 inches when track is biting good.

 

I noticed in the picture that you upper radiator hose are collapsed. Why not get one with the springs inside? Nice engine compartment and motor.

 

from what i understood when your radiator hose collapse(like on that pic) you are low on coolant, so yea

 

what is this?? attack of the modified fast black formulas??? hehehe

 

Sounds about right to me!

 

Actually you would be wrong.

The system was opened and depressurized when semi-hot. Sat in garage for a bit and cooled. Then pulled out to wash for pics. Hose most likely collapsed as it wasnt pressurized when started and pulled around, t-stat never reopened as coolant was less than 180* at that point.

Thanks for the concern though, I know it looks gay.

 

oh ok so it was not low on coolant but you took that cap off then it lost presure but the fact still remains that when you are low on coolant your system builds vacum and starts to suck coolant out of your resavor, and if your resavor is empty then your hose's are sucked in even thow thats not what happend this time but thats what will hapen when you are in fact low on coolant like i have seen many times. Try it some time and you will see, it's pretty cool the way that it works.

 

I will take you at your word.

I like to keep all my fuilds topped off.