Looking better every day!

 

Improvements! Good to see

 

looks nice Travis.

 

I had a little help cleaning the engine bay up to get ready for the engine to go back in. I'm in the middle of swapping over parts to the new engine. Gotta swap my aluminum intake plenums, oil cooler, accessories, install rocker arms, injectors, and the new turbo mount. Shouldn't be long now.

 

Looks like you have some good help. Little hands are good for tight spaces! Making memories, man...

Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see this thing make (lots of) smoke.

 

Going to put headers on Travis? Even though I hear they don't help much with HP I was wondering if they would help with EGT's?

 

Sweet. How did I miss this thread?? Looking awesome. making good progress.

 

I'm gonna leave the stock exhaust manifolds for now. I was actually fixing to order a set of headers earlier this week, but remembered I still need to buy 2 sets of tires, race seats and harnesses, ice box, custom degas bottle, at minimum a roll bar, new windshield, and then get the truck wrapped. So I figured I would put the $1300 towards that list instead of headers that won't help much since I have stock heads and a stock cam. I will be adding headers when I build a billet rod engine though. They do make a good power difference once you've done head porting and a better cam.

Here's where I ended off last night. That intake plenum sitting on the ground should look familiar to Glenn. I'll install intake plenums, water pump, oil cooler, and anything else I have time to do on Thursday. I would like to drop the engine in Friday or Saturday before I leave for a vacation in Hawaii.

 

Good looking progress, man! I like the Johnny in the background too.

 

That's a JD model 60. We just pepped up the engine in it last year. Runs pretty strong. My dad sled pulls with it. There's also a little Ford garden tractor in there that we restored awhile back. We've been thinking about putting a 302 on the garden tractor. Lol

 

My intakes went to Todd, I got a set of Riffraff ones, you know, the pretty ones, lol!

 

Those are your old DI plenums Glenn. I got them from you around 5 or 6 years ago. Lol

 

OH, forgot about them, lol

 

Hahahaha. Age is getting the better of you glenn

 

You got that right Nick, its at a accelerated rate too! Scary!