A.I.R system Q's

[RKC]

I'm still waiting for the headers from SW. They seem to be willing to supply the headers with the A.I.R. plumbing for an additional cost, though that wasn't the original plan. The CARB is a huge hassle with the exhaust setup. It's definitely possible to have good performance and a clean exhaust but it costs more and is a P.I.T.A. I know a trip to a smog referee could still be in my future.

The car runs stong, but seems to have all the bugs that most 1990's have. I kind of expected that, and am used to working on Vettes. I admit I'm a little intimidated to do a serious teardown. I have a spare set of 91 Heads that I am thinking about having ported by someone. I'll have to do quite a bit of reading to figure out if I want to do the swap myself. It's certainly more involved than the SBC.

Hammer:
By the way, I was thinking if I had waited a couple weeks I might have been driving your 91 Z.

[z proud]

This was done by stainless works, I instaled them on Saturday, This was the first set of air tubes done ,,, Left side fits like a glove, The right side needs to be changed a little, I got everything to fit, but had to rerun the tube on the right side.. ALL and all I am thrilled...

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by RKC

I'm still waiting for the headers from SW. They seem to be willing to supply the headers with the A.I.R. plumbing for an additional cost, though that wasn't the original plan. The CARB is a huge hassle with the exhaust setup. It's definitely possible to have good performance and a clean exhaust but it costs more and is a P.I.T.A. I know a trip to a smog referee could still be in my future.

The car runs stong, but seems to have all the bugs that most 1990's have. I kind of expected that, and am used to working on Vettes. I admit I'm a little intimidated to do a serious teardown. I have a spare set of 91 Heads that I am thinking about having ported by someone. I'll have to do quite a bit of reading to figure out if I want to do the swap myself. It's certainly more involved than the SBC.

Hammer:
By the way, I was thinking if I had waited a couple weeks I might have been driving your 91 Z.

Dude you're killin' me. You got Uly's car didn't you? What kinda bugs you working on, can we help?

Hey I own two, so could you.

[RKC]

Z Proud,
Those look sweet, I can hardly wait to get mine. What did you have modify on the right side headers?

Hammer,
Sorry, didn't want rub salt. So many great Zr-1's for sale now, I keep seeing them and thinking, "I would have bought that one."

Uly's car is running fine, but issues like the no start, an intermittant service ride control light,, etc. seem to pop up every other time I drive it. Not a big deal but it keeps me busy runing them down. Fortunately, there's lots of tech advice available in old threads.

[z proud]

on the right side , I re ran the down air tube so it fit the upper conection the lower rubber hose I removed it and added a 10 inch rubber hose to complete the conection, I added a photo of it....It is to close to the right a arm..I am going to talk to Jim Watson on Monday so maybe they can correct this...You will need to get O 2 extenders, gaskets , Jeffvette has them , any hardware store you will need 3 3.5 LONG bolts and nuts for the left cat

[z proud]

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[RKC]

Thanks for the pictures. That's a realy tight fit on the right side.

[tomtom72]

Thanks z proud for sharing the picts & info!

The right side primary air pipe looks real close, no chance a bit of gentle persuasion toward the cam cover solves that issue?

Also in the vein of asking the obvious.....the black colored plumbing is scavanged from our OEM set up and attached to the the set up provided by ssw...the small primary pipes and fittings colored silver??

TIA
Tom

[z proud]

Originally Posted by tomtom72

Thanks z proud for sharing the picts & info!

The right side primary air pipe looks real close, no chance a bit of gentle persuasion toward the cam cover solves that issue?

Also in the vein of asking the obvious.....the black colored plumbing is scavanged from our OEM set up and attached to the the set up provided by ssw...the small primary pipes and fittings colored silver??

TIA
Tom

Yes,the black is from our oem set up and attached to the silver set up provided by ssw.
spoke to Jim Watson today about the changes, they were hit by a storm last night and are with out power for a few days.

[z proud]

FYI a photo of the watson air tube one photo from e bay and one I took, on the right side they skiped the first pipe and went to the second and 4 th pipe cyl #4 and #8