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Painted the exhaust manifold, and hotside of turbo with Rustoleum BBQ paint.
Made a new upper heat shield out of some scrap mild steel. I need to trim the front bottom edge to shape, whenever I find a lower shield. It will look much better, after I blast off the rest of the zinc coating, and paint it with BBQ paint. I made stainless o2 sensor wire standoffs out of some large SS hose clamps. They will bolt on into the three threaded holes. I will use a layer of fiberglass heat wrap between the exhaust manifold and the heat shield.
Installed front axles. Installed clutch slave cylinder. Installed starter.
Finished modifying downpipe. I first test fitted the downpipe with the driveshaft to ensure I wouldn't have any issues with flange placement. I then sliced a section off the end, and used the jig I made previously to align the flanges in the proper locations/angles. The piece that I removed is now a test pipe. I picked up a cheap stainless 3" free flowing Yonaka cat off ebay awhile ago. It's not welded properly, but it will be fine. I used 100% argon with stainless mig wire, so the bead is pretty tall/ugly.
This downpipe didn't have much room for my wideband sensor. The directions state 24" downstream from the turbo on the upper portion of the pipe. This placed it right before the flex section on my pipe. I mounted it on the very top, which places it just under the rearward flange of the oil pan, infront of the axle. It is a pretty tight fit, so I would need to drop the downpipe to change the sensor.
Cleaned up and painted Apexi N1/downpipe. I was going to black out the stainless garbage can on the end, but figured it's nice thick stainless, and would look like crap if the black ever gets scrapped off. The stainless portion of this exhaust is showing no signs of corrosion, so the paint is just to protect the mild steel sections.
Marked notches at every joint on the driveshaft with a diamond bit in a rotary tool, and broke it down into pieces. Cleaned them up, and painted them with gloss black tremclad. The driveshaft will be getting new yoke/u-joints/carrier bearings when I reassemble it. The old grease in the lobro joint looked a bit dirty, so I cleaned it all out, and will repack it with fresh grease when I reassemble everything. Since the temps have already dropped to 5C, these are drying in my basement. Some masking has already been removed.
Made a new upper heat shield out of some scrap mild steel. I need to trim the front bottom edge to shape, whenever I find a lower shield. It will look much better, after I blast off the rest of the zinc coating, and paint it with BBQ paint. I made stainless o2 sensor wire standoffs out of some large SS hose clamps. They will bolt on into the three threaded holes. I will use a layer of fiberglass heat wrap between the exhaust manifold and the heat shield.
Installed front axles. Installed clutch slave cylinder. Installed starter.
Finished modifying downpipe. I first test fitted the downpipe with the driveshaft to ensure I wouldn't have any issues with flange placement. I then sliced a section off the end, and used the jig I made previously to align the flanges in the proper locations/angles. The piece that I removed is now a test pipe. I picked up a cheap stainless 3" free flowing Yonaka cat off ebay awhile ago. It's not welded properly, but it will be fine. I used 100% argon with stainless mig wire, so the bead is pretty tall/ugly.
This downpipe didn't have much room for my wideband sensor. The directions state 24" downstream from the turbo on the upper portion of the pipe. This placed it right before the flex section on my pipe. I mounted it on the very top, which places it just under the rearward flange of the oil pan, infront of the axle. It is a pretty tight fit, so I would need to drop the downpipe to change the sensor.
Cleaned up and painted Apexi N1/downpipe. I was going to black out the stainless garbage can on the end, but figured it's nice thick stainless, and would look like crap if the black ever gets scrapped off. The stainless portion of this exhaust is showing no signs of corrosion, so the paint is just to protect the mild steel sections.
Marked notches at every joint on the driveshaft with a diamond bit in a rotary tool, and broke it down into pieces. Cleaned them up, and painted them with gloss black tremclad. The driveshaft will be getting new yoke/u-joints/carrier bearings when I reassemble it. The old grease in the lobro joint looked a bit dirty, so I cleaned it all out, and will repack it with fresh grease when I reassemble everything. Since the temps have already dropped to 5C, these are drying in my basement. Some masking has already been removed.
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