The Girl is coming along,..(she's growing so fast...:)

[oricale]

Decided to refinish the entire upper portion of the engine myself..(media blast, light sanding and painting with a ceramic based Hi-temp Paint)..as of this writing i have finished the coolant pipes and injector housings...

check it out:

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo3-16.jpg

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo4-13.jpg

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo3-15.jpg

Does THIS!!!...Look familiar???
http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo1-16.jpg

[oricale]

This engine...the whole car for that matter is a Faaar cry from what it was!
http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo2-13.jpg

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo2-15.jpg

I still want to do the plenum this dark red and the cam covers white to follow the scheme of the paint!

Heres a shot of the brake(all brakes look and looked like this:before and after), I put speed bleeders on all ports as well!..

http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo1-12.jpg

after:..http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/oricale/photo23.jpg

[bdw18_123]

Very nice! Will match nicely with the red stripe on your car. You are doing the cam covers too, right?

Yes, those bolts always get rusted in the bolt holes and makes the coolant tubes a MPITA to get off. Mine were similar. Hopefully you didn't damage the gasket surfaces with the hacksaw.

[oricale]

I did toach it a couple of times,..but..nothing serious...but get this....the whole right side of the engine was covered in oil/grease buildup and I couldnt figure out where it came from:icon_scra,..then When I media blasted it I found a crack right in the center of the block!...I JB welded and sanded it to perfection!(I hope):-D

[XfireZ51]

Wait a minute!!! You JB Welded the BLOCK?? I must have read that wrong, right?

[ZZZZZR1]

Your car sure has come a long way!

Congrats.

I'm with Dom.... Engine block was welded??? :happy1:

:cheers:

David

[oricale]

yeah...I put a tube of JB weld on a $15,000 engine...NO!...where the coolant pipe meets the square block on the coolant housing had a hair-line crack, all the way through. ..so I grinded a groove the length of the crack and filled with jb weld..and sanded.

[oricale]

Oh yeah, every bolt was corroded to the point the heads broke off and I had to drill every one of them out!!:mad::censored:

[Scrrem]

Wow, it's moving right along...Looking good. I hope I can get mine started soon.
Rich

[oricale]

Coming along pretty fast for having it for 47 days!

[mike100]

Coming along pretty fast for having it for 47 days!

I had mine apart twice in the first two months also. You gotta do what the last owner wouldn't.

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Keep the pics coming.=D>

[oricale]

Here is a link to an earlier more detailed thread!

http://www.zr1.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16031

http://www.zr1.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15988