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rhipsher · 10-10-2009

Much quicker than I thought it would. Thursday night after work got the cam covers on. Friday night got most of the secondary plumbing hooked back up and injector housings accept for breather box hoses. I shop vacuumed out the head ports just in case there might be anything down in there. I'm not taking any chances. I used course ss wool to stuff into the pcv area. But a 50 ml tube of loctite 518 was more than enough to do the job. Just lay a bead and spread evenly with your fingers. I've still got to do some clean up around the breather box in the front of the car.
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About two years ago this idiot in the Corvette club made a comment about my engine not being all that clean which really offended me and he knew it by the look on my face. I told him well of course it's not going to be as clean as your 2007. Now he can stick it where the sun don't shine.
This is what it looked like before which wasn't bad for 19 years old.

xlr8nflorida · 10-10-2009

Did you ask him why his engine compartment looked like a Tupperware party?

rhipsher · 10-10-2009

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Originally Posted by xlr8nflorida

Did you ask him why his engine compartment looked like a Tupperware party?

Haha! I agree. But the big jerk just had a heart attack while he was washing his 2007 and just got out of the hospital. So I have to be the bigger man in this case and sent him a get well card even though he has a big mouth.

Pete · 10-10-2009

Rick, bet you can't wait to drive it.

Pete

Paul Workman · 10-10-2009

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Originally Posted by rhipsher

Much quicker than I thought it would. Thursday night after work got the cam covers on. Friday night got most of the secondary plumbing hooked back up and injector housings accept for breather box hoses. I shop vacuumed out the head ports just in case there might be anything down in there. I'm not taking any chances. I used course ss wool to stuff into the pcv area. But a 50 ml tube of loctite 518 was more than enough to do the job. Just lay a bead and spread evenly with your fingers. I've still got to do some clean up around the breather box in the front of the car.
[IMG]http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn63/keeno1970/valvecover.jpg[/IMG

]

About two years ago this idiot in the Corvette club made a comment about my engine not being all that clean which really offended me and he knew it by the look on my face. I told him well of course it's not going to be as clean as your 2007. Now he can stick it where the sun don't shine.
This is what it looked like before which wasn't bad for 19 years old.

Just noticed your head porting...Holes are waaaay to small!

Juuuuusst kiddin!

Beautiful job on the engine. Nice looking P&P on the IHs (from what we can see of it!)
P.

rhipsher · 10-10-2009

I've got a chip thats made for top end porting but its programmed for headers and mine doesn't have headers yet so if anything it will be running rich. So what can I expect the first time I start it up? Will the engine chug a lug as the ECM does its calculations or what.

tomtom72 · 10-11-2009

Now that P/C job came out super!

I hope you enjoy every mile!

Yea, too bad about that guy & the heart attack. But really, I wanna see how the "tupperware" holds up after 20 yrs....it's easy to have a few yr old car look good...if colored plastic is to your taste.....

Tom

rhipsher · 10-11-2009

This is where I left off on it last night. I may be firing this bad boy up today. All I've got left to do is cut some gaskets for the plenum and one for the throttle body to the air horn. Then bolt the brake booster back in. Maybe late today.

I put just a tiny bit of silicone grease on the injector orings and they went in and seated perfectly in about 30 seconds.

bdw18_123 · 10-11-2009

Very nice!

Thank you for all those under-plenum pics (I saved 'em

), I have a folder on my computer full of LT5 pics like that so I can figure out where all the vacuum hoses go that I have laying around. The pics (actually, more like drawings) in the FSM aren't that helpful in that regard.

rhipsher · 10-11-2009

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Originally Posted by bdw18_123

Very nice!

Thank you for all those under-plenum pics (I saved 'em

), I have a folder on my computer full of LT5 pics like that so I can figure out where all the vacuum hoses go that I have laying around. The pics (actually, more like drawings) in the FSM aren't that helpful in that regard.

My pleasure. I've been under the plenum so many times now I could probably hook everything back up blind folded.

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rhipsher Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1 Posts: 2,320	It's coming together. Much quicker than I thought it would. Thursday night after work got the cam covers on. Friday night got most of the secondary plumbing hooked back up and injector housings accept for breather box hoses. I shop vacuumed out the head ports just in case there might be anything down in there. I'm not taking any chances. I used course ss wool to stuff into the pcv area. But a 50 ml tube of loctite 518 was more than enough to do the job. Just lay a bead and spread evenly with your fingers. I've still got to do some clean up around the breather box in the front of the car. [IMG]http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn63/keeno1970/valvecover.jpg[/IMG ] About two years ago this idiot in the Corvette club made a comment about my engine not being all that clean which really offended me and he knew it by the look on my face. I told him well of course it's not going to be as clean as your 2007. Now he can stick it where the sun don't shine. This is what it looked like before which wasn't bad for 19 years old. Last edited by rhipsher; 10-10-2009 at 11:40 AM.

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xlr8nflorida Join Date: May 2008 Location: USA Posts: 1,096	Re: It's coming together. Did you ask him why his engine compartment looked like a Tupperware party?

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Pete Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Chicagoland,IL Posts: 2,679	Re: It's coming together. Rick, bet you can't wait to drive it. Pete __________________ '91 #1635 PoloGreen 350 LT5 11.09 @ 129.27 11.04 @ 128.86 474RWHP 400RWTQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNFOhGGlR4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRIOMwaDYY https://sites.google.com/site/peteszr1garage

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rhipsher Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1 Posts: 2,320	Re: It's coming together. I've got a chip thats made for top end porting but its programmed for headers and mine doesn't have headers yet so if anything it will be running rich. So what can I expect the first time I start it up? Will the engine chug a lug as the ECM does its calculations or what.

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tomtom72 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Jacksonville, FL USA Posts: 4,645	Re: It's coming together. Now that P/C job came out super! I hope you enjoy every mile! Yea, too bad about that guy & the heart attack. But really, I wanna see how the "tupperware" holds up after 20 yrs....it's easy to have a few yr old car look good...if colored plastic is to your taste..... Tom __________________ 1990 ZR-1, Black/grey, #2233, stock. ZR-1 Net Reg Founding Member #316 & NCM member

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rhipsher Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1 Posts: 2,320	Re: It's coming together. This is where I left off on it last night. I may be firing this bad boy up today. All I've got left to do is cut some gaskets for the plenum and one for the throttle body to the air horn. Then bolt the brake booster back in. Maybe late today. I put just a tiny bit of silicone grease on the injector orings and they went in and seated perfectly in about 30 seconds. Last edited by rhipsher; 10-11-2009 at 01:32 PM.

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bdw18_123 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Prather, CA Posts: 809	Re: It's coming together. Very nice! Thank you for all those under-plenum pics (I saved 'em ), I have a folder on my computer full of LT5 pics like that so I can figure out where all the vacuum hoses go that I have laying around. The pics (actually, more like drawings) in the FSM aren't that helpful in that regard. __________________ [IMG]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/bdw18_123/_zr1netforumsigphoto.jpg[/IMG][B] 1990 Corvette ZR-1 [/B][I] White/Flame Red, #2299, mostly stock, 144K miles.[/I] -Cams timed to the '93-'95 405HP LT5 stock timing. -IAT sensor relocated to below front bumper. -Haibeck hoops installed in airduct. -OBX cat-back exhaust. [COLOR=DarkRed][B](SOLD - December 2012 [/B][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkRed][B]:hello:)[/B][/COLOR] 1993 Corvette Coupe Black/Black, 6-speed (SOLD - October 2009 :hello:)