Pics of my Car before surgery..

[00Beast]

I took these pics tuesday before I rolled her into the shop to tear the Intake off.






And a before Pic of the motor. (after pic coming soon)

[GoldenBullet]

looks good ed

[WhiteArrow3800]

Dirty under the hood. Guess you'll have that fixed up here soon eh?

That color is actually growing on me more and more....but I still like White mind you
Looks Good

[00Beast]

The under hood is going to be a total transformation. I might even get some MSD coils and red wires to offset it, IDK yet.

[RJGill84]

Gorgeous car man...I really like that color.

[00Beast]

Ok, so Andrew came today, with his die grinder, and a bunch of other stuff. He brought FSM's, S/C oil, and a Vacuum line he got for me in Mankato at the dealer. So first, we cleaned up the sealing surfaces of the manifold, TB and S/C.


After that, we started assembly. It only took 2 and a half hours to assemble the top end and get it running.








After that, I took it out for a drive, and an issue propped up. The fuel injector o-ring came out, due to the piece on the bottom of it breaking, and allowing it to not seal, and get caught on the lip. Oh, yeah, and Andrew ran the plug wires under the snout of the blower, and knocked the vacuum T off. After that, It ran fine, so we installed the MPS, which went relatively smooth. We couldn't test it out due to too much ice on the roads. Also, we cleared the front corners, which took the pro like, 20 minutes for both sides.

Final Pics:





I need to install my INTENSE stickers, but I'm waiting for the windows to heat up.

Andrew parked his car inside, so it could thaw it out.



The huge mass of ice that had accumulated on his hood.

[GoldenBullet]

nice, looks like a good time, sorry i couldnt make it out



whats all this "we" stuff, looks like andrew is doing all the work

[crzydmnd72]

Love this post. As many things as Andrew has undertaken, this is something he could do in his sleep. Great job!

[00Beast]

I was working so hard he had to remind me to take pics!! LOL, glad that you could make it andrew, you were a big help.

[willwren]

I imagine the free beer was flowing. That's all it takes to get that punk to do all the work.

[GoldenBullet]

I imagine the free beer was flowing. That's all it takes to get that punk to do all the work.

last i heard there was no beer

[00Beast]

The free Mt dew was flowing. We had like 4 cans each. He didn't want beer.......

Yes, I did offer.

[swampthing]

i am likeing the clear corners alot... i think your car could pull of body colored headlight bezels...

btw yours in the only bonne that i have seen with that color

[00Beast]

i am likeing the clear corners alot... i think your car could pull of body colored headlight bezels...

btw yours in the only bonne that i have seen with that color

Same here, LOL. I need new headlights, and I think that place in SD has some again.

[swampthing]

the $50 ones on ebay? they have some i wanna get them too

[00Beast]

Yeah, them.

Just put the Intense Stickers on, here they are:
The don't pulled off, so I said screw it and removed the whole first sentence, the "Don't make excuses."

[harofreak00]

Just got home and showered. Let me be the first to say, this will NOT be the last meet at Ed's house. His shop is amazing (with hoist!!), and the house incredible. While we were there, he made me a pork loin sandwich and his dad made cheeseburgers and deep-fried moz sticks and fries. I don't really like drinking beer when I have to drive home, so I stuck with the dew.

The work did go pretty quick, and it was nice that Ed had everything ripped apart when I got there. The gasket materials cleaned up real nice with the die grinder and then it was to installation. While the pictures make it look like I was doing all the work, Ed wasn't standing around by any means. We both were in there, dropping bolts

The issue with the injector o-rings was the first I had seen like that. One of the o-ring retaining tabs had broken off the bottom of the injector so the o-ring was basically just sitting there. When we installed it, the o-ring went in a little crooked and got caught on the injector port and took a chunk of the o-ring off. When the car was running, it sounded like a HUGE vacuum leak. It was pretty easy to see the problem, and ripping the fuel rail off only took about 20 minutes.

The MPS installation went pretty smooth after we got the directions from the INTENSE website, its been a while since I have had to use that thing.

Sorry my car is so filthy, the roads are so salty/sandy here that it just doesn't make sense to keep it clean. On the way home, I got stuck in traffic going 37-43mph in a 55mph zone for about 30 miles, very frustrating.

Thanks again to Ed for letting me stop by at his facilities, and wash my tools in his parts washer!

[00Beast]

Just got home and showered. Let me be the first to say, this will NOT be the last meet at Ed's house. His shop is amazing (with hoist!!), and the house incredible. While we were there, he made me a pork loin sandwich and his dad made cheeseburgers and deep-fried moz sticks and fries. I don't really like drinking beer when I have to drive home, so I stuck with the dew.

The work did go pretty quick, and it was nice that Ed had everything ripped apart when I got there. The gasket materials cleaned up real nice with the die grinder and then it was to installation. While the pictures make it look like I was doing all the work, Ed wasn't standing around by any means. We both were in there, dropping bolts

The issue with the injector o-rings was the first I had seen like that. One of the o-ring retaining tabs had broken off the bottom of the injector so the o-ring was basically just sitting there. When we installed it, the o-ring went in a little crooked and got caught on the injector port and took a chunk of the o-ring off. When the car was running, it sounded like a HUGE vacuum leak. It was pretty easy to see the problem, and ripping the fuel rail off only took about 20 minutes.

The MPS installation went pretty smooth after we got the directions from the INTENSE website, its been a while since I have had to use that thing.

Sorry my car is so filthy, the roads are so salty/sandy here that it just doesn't make sense to keep it clean. On the way home, I got stuck in traffic going 37-43mph in a 55mph zone for about 30 miles, very frustrating.

Thanks again to Ed for letting me stop by at his facilities, and wash my tools in his parts washer!

Andrew, no problem at all, thanks for all your help. Swing by anytime you need use of the shop.

[GoldenBullet]

i vote another mini meet at ed's soon when im not sick/ pre-occupied

[00Beast]

i vote another mini meet at ed's soon when im not sick/ pre-occupied

LMAO, that may work.