After yesterday’s Cars & Coffee wiped us out, we started working on the top end (since the new shifter cable won’t be in until Monday-ish), and one of the intake manifold bolts decided to snap off… I won’t say who did it, but it wasn’t me. LOL! So, the better part of the afternoon was tracking down bolt extractors, and once that was done, we were done. Today started with pulling the intake, cleaning up the valley, harvesting some bits off the old intake we might need, and some overall general housekeeping before installing the intake, new distributor, and a good portion of the fuel injection system (OK, it was already loaded up on the intake, but it sounded huge). The shifter cable actually showed up yesterday as well – Bonus!
Pulled the old Edelbrock Performer intake and found this. Not so bad… of course, the water jackets on the back end were clogged, so hopefully they’ll work again after a good cleaning.Here’s the one that didn’t make it. I’m thinking of cleaning it up, drilling a hole, and getting a nice chain to make someone a necklace. In all fairness, it was next to the front water jacket, so it probably didn’t have a chance of coming off in one piece, anyway.All cleaned up and ready for the new intake. Gonna pull off the valve covers to load up the new Scorpion 1.7 roller rockers on 7/16″ screw-in studs.After discovering the rocker studs I ordered were the wrong ones, we pushed through to get the new intake on. Looks pretty awesome!Set the old valve covers on to keep stuff out of the rockers while we work on replacing the distributor.Even though I’m a staunch believer in Duraspark, the fuel injection system came with this HEI distributor which is controlled by the ECU. I hope this thing runs as well as I think it will.
