Monday, November 25, 2013

More Pictures

The pictures I posted didn't do any justice to how my intake manifold looks. Here are some more. Enjoy!

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I can't wait to get my new die grinder and porting kit. This baby isn't even close to being finished yet.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Longggg Over Due Update

Hi there! I didn't realize it had been so long since I have updated my dear old blog. What a wild ride this past summer was. A lot of good and bad things occurred which kept me from reaching my goals nor even making it to the track once. Ughhh. But life is good now, things are going much much much better. I have a ton of motivation to get things done to my Project '88.

Last time I drove this car I bashed my TPS against my firewall during a hard shift. My Blox intake manifold sits so damn close to the firewall. I punched it out a bit but that wasn't enough. I removed my intake manifold so I could really work the firewall good. While I have the intake manifold off, I decided to take a peep inside of the plenum to see what was inside. I was not impressed. I started to get to work.

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I started to get ideas and began to work on the ports. I had a basic dremel that I was using before I pick up my die grinder and porting kit. Here are some pics of my progress so far...

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Here you can see how I enlarged the mouth of the roofs to hopefully promote a smoother and higher velocity of air flow.

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It's a work in progress and I have a lot more work to do.

I also have some goodies coming. These goodies are really going to improve my set up! Stay tuned.