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I like this one, it stands out nice. The plenum and rocker covers were ground clean, sprayed with brake cleaner and coated with hi-temp engine paint. But I stopped there, left teh rest as raw metal for lack of insulation by paint.
New flywheel for an 89 McLaren Turbo, Spec 3 clutch, ARP Flywheel bolts from WOT-TECH, the strongest grade bolts used for the pressure plate to flywheel with strong thread lock (just a bit). I had cleaned the threads and the crank where the bolts thread to. I used an engine cleaning pipe cleaner looking thing, lol, and attached it to my air drill. Whipped them suckers clean, sprayed brake cleaner and then blasted them dry with 90psi airblast.
The flywheel was also kept 100% clean.
ARP connecting rod bolts, tri-metal bearings also from WOT as well as the crank scraper.
Of course new gaskets all around. And a fresh 180° T-stat.
It's hard to see but the 1-3-5 exhaust manifold is double welded shut on the stock output. The inside was blended somewhat, it works well enough.
Both heads have less then 500 miles on them, and ported myself. That is another story in its self. I know, many say, w/o a flow bench it's risky and restrictive to mild work. I had one advantage, I scuplted many statues of all sizes for almost my whole life. Also being a professional painter for 11 years, I have a great coordination when crafting curves. I tell you all, these heads weren't just carved, they were put through hours of gentle blending, VERY gentle blending until every curve was perfected, no highs or lows. Every defective seam and lump was smoothed. I am proud of the job, my second attempt. My first time was a butchering....lol
#36 injectors, barely seen 500 miles or so.
She is bolted up to a Getrag 282 with an EP LSD. The internals were gutted and rebuilt by PontiacJeff. Haven't driven it yet but I can trust the trans is built very nice. He even put extra needle bearings around the axles connection to the differential (housing? im not a big trans builder)
Axles from a McLaren, lost the ABS but thats fine.
Damn I rambled on.....but I guess beer does that. And she sits and waits for a new clutch line and a new set of brake lines. One line was bent and busted during install of the Brake Master. Oh well, rusted so replacing is a great idea. All the flex lines in the wheel bays are 1 year old. Had them replaced after some jackas$$ cut all 4 while on a side job. They did it during a football game, no tow truck would come get me. I was stuck for 12 hours.
LINK to the video, it doesn't seem to post up right.