Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Day 24- "Inches make champions." - Vince Lombardi


Boy was Vince smart, We are truly getting down to the nitty gritty. As you can see from our to-do list ( ignore pictures on left) we are making progress. Yesterday we installed our temporary header that we "retrieved" from our local U-Pull-And-Pay off a '92 Ford thunder bird. Yes, we know, we know, the headers are installed on the opposite sides and upside down, Truthfully one could not install them more wrong. Fortunately for us they are a perfect temp solution while we wait for the real headers in come in form back order( the only part we do not have). Also installed yesterday was the belt, plug wires and positive battery cable.

Today we custom fit the radiator fan shroud to our electric fan and mounted it on the radiator, then the whole assembly in the car. Tomorrow we will be running the coolant hoses and over flow tank. We also extended the headers with some extra exhaust pipe so the flames dont shoot towards us when we fire the engine. (not pictured)

We hope to have the engine make its first revolution by the end of the week*


* Note: Little worthless miscellaneous part will most likely delay engine start-up to be honest

2 comments:

Unknown said...

LOOKING GOOD !!

Two questions :

What is the header ??

Are those your Cobra car keys hanging on the side of the "to do " list ?? (and, I never would have seen the pictures to the left if you hadn't pointed them out )

Andrew said...

The headers are the pipes that come off the exhaust ports that carry the gasses to the muffler and out the tail pipe, AKA those ugly brown pipe things on each side of the engine.

Yes those are the keys to the ignition awaiting the right moment. Sorry I had inadvertently pointed them out, I just wanted to avoid any confusion with which one is the to-do list.