Lateral-g Forums - Project 'Overtime': Pro-Touring 68 Acadian (Nova) with L92 swap

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Originally Posted by LanceL (Post 328834)

I was wondering where my gaskets were? Ha ha

I was hoping you wouldn't notice :_paranoid Just kidding. I knew that SW recommended to use them, that's why I ended up keeping them. Sorry Lance, I should have clarified that when we made deal.

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Originally Posted by tones2SS (Post 328843)

Looks great Mike.
I think the intake would look killer painted to match the color of the engine bay.:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by waynieZ (Post 328846)

The anti sieze is a must. It looks great.

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Originally Posted by lilcraigford (Post 328851)

Those headers are gorgeous! And I think the motor will look far less cluttered with the coils mounted elsewhere. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 328877)

X's 10

Looks good Mike.

Oh - and BTW -- you're not the first or the last guy to punch the steering column in the slightly off place... :>)

Thanks for all the comments guys. I've decided I am going to paint the intake to match. Kinda have to now, I've already done a little sanding on it. I know I'm not the first to do the steering column wrong Greg...it still sucks though. Was hard to cut up the firewall again.

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Originally Posted by killer69 (Post 328920)

looks good Mike

all you need now is a set of those fancy ATS ign coil mounting brackets.....

lol it never ends !!!!

If I wasn't going to be hiding the coils, I'd be all over those ones Blake. I ended up getting a set of Rogers. I couldn't beat the price. Plus this way I will have more money for a set of down tubes. :D

I didn't get around to filling in the ash tray like I wanted to, but I did get the steering linkage all hooked up. What a pain in the ***** that was. And it took forever, although it didn't help that I had to keep chopping up my firewall. A whole lot of trial and error. I also took a nice chunk out of my hand. I had my hand some place it shouldn't have been and when the drill slipped, my hand was there to stop it. Got it so deep, it barely even bled. Thankfully I was almost done the steering as it put a bit of a damper on the rest of the day. Oh well enough whining and onto the pics.

Linkage hooked up. That's the nice thing about the Speed Tech headers. They are designed so you only have to use two knuckles. I ended up making a bit of a mess of the hole in the firewall, thankfully the steering column mount covers most of it. I think there's only two holes not covered.

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Thought I would see how it would look with everything else on.

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I put the steering wheel on. Will be so nice that I can turn the wheels with the steering wheel now instead of forcing the wheels themselves. I also put the gauge cluster in just to see how it will look

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Since I messed up my hand, I thought I'd hang up some shop art that the wife got me for xmas. I've always wanted to get a bike, hence the bike ones (plus I love skulls)

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I still have one more pic that I got from Carl that I need to hang. Just haven't found a good spot yet.

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This spring I hope to knock the shed that is behind the garage and put up a new one with a cement floor. I want to make the floor the same height and do the new shed as an attachment to the shop. I'll then punch a door way into the shed and move all my tools and cluster into the shed. Then I'll have more room for shop art.

I also ordered a few brackets from Ironworks that will make things easier. I ordered a Lokar parking brake bracket, a Mast ECU bracket and some coil relocation brackets. I then ordered a Lokar hand parking brake and a boot for it.