Ivan280zt

Man this thread was going great until page 3... Can this thread get cleaned up please!?!?!

Here is one small update but this is one of those that was just bothering me for waaayyyy toooo loooonnnnggggg! It just seemed that I never had time to finish my radiator core support and it just kept getting surface rust but not any more I finally got some time to take care of that little issue! Two upright bars added for support and well to just look right . If you look hard you can see little left over lip of old core support when I got it cut out so first thing was to trim it all down until it was nice and smooth however I forgot to take pictures of that... Welded, sanded down, and primed with black etching primer so it can stop rusting (wow way over due!) Afther this got done I focused on getting cage, fuel cell frame, and parachute mount sanded down/primed and let me tell you when all that was finished my back was not my best friend!

Exhaust manifold is 100% DONE!!! Here are few last steps that had to be done before it was ready to go. Getting ready for nice port job Getting there Here is where we ran into little problem. On the night that manifold got welded together everything got welded in one sitting which created alot of heat and since head flange did not get secured to the bench good enough (late late night) that ended causing nice warp to the flange itself. Well it turned out that it would require alot of resurfacing thus making flange much thinner. Well we chose not to go that route instead of that we ended up just welding up low spots vs. cutting down flange (alot) until whole surface would be flat so when you look at fallowing pictures you can see few random spots that are little bit darker than rest of the surface. Either way least amount of material was taken off to get perfectly flat flange so mission accomplished : ) My buddy Tyson (10 years old) Just so we are clear I dont dine at this table this is cats room... Turbo flange got resurfaced too I am not sure if I mentioned this but support bracket flange got welded also One cool cat I have to snap some pictures of radiator so that should be on my next update or maybe I will do update on interior...