Project Cleaning the Clutter in Our Engine Bay

[LS2SLOW]

Here's mine...Katech valve covers, coil relocation, tensioner, heater hose relocation, fuel line roto fab plenum cover, painted hall tech cai...very cool thread btw

[FurySS]

Originally Posted by Nathan Moreno

LOL, That's a "LIFE" mod that I'm not looking to start on for a long time!

I'm married and I my wife is less than pleased that the car is torn down while all this warm weather is going on. I told her it was still supposed to be cold and nasty out - sorry


WOW I spend a day in the garage and come back to see all hell has broken loose here! Big flood of traffic from the homepage mention - hope they did not all rush out to relocate their battery cables (sorry Nathan)!

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by 2010 Indy Pace

I'm married and I my wife is less than pleased that the car is torn down while all this warm weather is going on. I told her it was still supposed to be cold and nasty out - sorry


WOW I spend a day in the garage and come back to see all hell has broken loose here! Big flood of traffic from the homepage mention - hope they did not all rush out to relocate their battery cables (sorry Nathan)!

Berry funnie, all fun and games till your car goes up in flame, lol.

Indy, pm me your address. I have some stuffing I'm going to send I wont be using.

[FurySS]

Originally Posted by Nathan Moreno

Berry funnie, all fun and games till your car goes up in flame, lol.

Indy, pm me your address. I have some stuffing I'm going to send I wont be using.

Well I am already Inferno Orange lol! Not sure what stuffing means but thanks I guess - I will pm you my address

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by 2010 Indy Pace

I'm married and I my wife is less than pleased that the car is torn down while all this warm weather is going on. I told her it was still supposed to be cold and nasty out - sorry


WOW I spend a day in the garage and come back to see all hell has broken loose here! Big flood of traffic from the homepage mention - hope they did not all rush out to relocate their battery cables (sorry Nathan)!

Originally Posted by 2010 Indy Pace

Well I am already Inferno Orange lol! Not sure what stuffing means but thanks I guess - I will pm you my address

LSR radiator and over flow billet caps and both TechAFX relocation hoses. Might have 4 extra ARP bolts for your fuel rails.

[FurySS]

Originally Posted by Nathan Moreno

LSR radiator and over flow billet caps and both TechAFX relocation hoses. Might have 4 extra ARP bolts for your fuel rails.

Awesome - thanks!!!

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by stieger

congrats on making the homepage Nathan

Thanks man!

Originally Posted by 572HP

Have you guys installed the small 8.75" overflow tank? I'm only looking at it because it is the only black one that I see they carry. Is it large enough? How does it mount?

Where is Kyle?

Originally Posted by aquablueL99

AquablueL99 engine bay after some TLC and PayPal..........

Very Nice!

Originally Posted by LS2SLOW

Here's mine...Katech valve covers, coil relocation, tensioner, heater hose relocation, fuel line roto fab plenum cover, painted hall tech cai...very cool thread btw

Your engine has been an inspiration! I first saw pics on the Katech Web site.

Originally Posted by 2010 Indy Pace

Well I am already Inferno Orange lol! Not sure what stuffing means but thanks I guess - I will pm you my address

I just got home and read my post. I hate posting from my I-phone. Never know what "auto correct" will replace your words with.

[Ph4r]

congrats on the homepage, been subscribed for quite a while, will be quite a while before I try to tackle this, but thanks for building such a great reference Nate!

[NC-V]

Originally Posted by 572HP

Have you guys installed the small 8.75" overflow tank? I'm only looking at it because it is the only black one that I see they carry. Is it large enough? How does it mount?

Sorry, I had to get some a bunch work pictures up on FB last night.

That is the tank I just installed in the car 2 days ago, lol. I don't foresee there being a size issue with it. That tank should give you plenty of room for expansion. It basically just depends on your coolant capacity and rad. cap. The more coolant capacity you have the more expansion you will get (more molecules to grow). The lower the pressure rad. cap you use, the more expanding coolant it will pass to your tank. As long as your rad. cap is good you should be ok . We have run those tanks on many high HP vehicles.
As for mounting, it comes with a two bolt flanged ring that you pass the tank through. I mounted it to the frame pretty much where the factory tank was, just wanted that ugly plastic thing out of there.

I'll post up pics when I'm done with the car in a couple weeks, right now its just an empty shell.
-Kyle

[NEGXXIS]

Originally Posted by bmbbl be

great job I wish i had a lift !!!

Thanks...that was the best $2800 I ever spent!!!

Originally Posted by TonyC

wow thats sick

Thanks !!

[PAUL SS]

The great thing about this thread is you can pick and choose which parts of it you want to use. It is not one single project that must all be done.

[Moreno1]

Originally Posted by PAUL SS

That came out NICE! I see a rainy day project in the near future. I have a Harbor Tools close by too.

I got some S/S button head socket bolts from Fastenal 15 mm works, and 20 mm will bottom out.

Paul PM me your address, mine is already polished. I'll just mail it to you.

Originally Posted by Ph4r

congrats on the homepage, been subscribed for quite a while, will be quite a while before I try to tackle this, but thanks for building such a great reference Nate!

Thanks Ph4r, by the way, love your Boobies........wait, that doesn't sound right . Your going to have to bail me out of this one, LOL. Let me know if I can help.

Nate

Originally Posted by NC-V

Sorry, I had to get some a bunch work pictures up on FB last night.

That is the tank I just installed in the car 2 days ago, lol. I don't foresee there being a size issue with it. That tank should give you plenty of room for expansion. It basically just depends on your coolant capacity and rad. cap. The more coolant capacity you have the more expansion you will get (more molecules to grow). The lower the pressure rad. cap you use, the more expanding coolant it will pass to your tank. As long as your rad. cap is good you should be ok . We have run those tanks on many high HP vehicles.
As for mounting, it comes with a two bolt flanged ring that you pass the tank through. I mounted it to the frame pretty much where the factory tank was, just wanted that ugly plastic thing out of there.

I'll post up pics when I'm done with the car in a couple weeks, right now its just an empty shell.
-Kyle

There you are! Sorry I went dark on you, I haven't been able to do any work on the car. We are in the process of moving, packing, etc.... next two weeks are going to be tough.

Originally Posted by PAUL SS

The great thing about this thread is you can pick and choose which parts of it you want to use. It is not one single project that must all be done.

Paul, that's absolutely right. Most any one thing could be done in a day. It's the old adage..... how do you eat an elephant?

[FurySS]

Hey all! Coil brackets are mounted now - really helps to have a 2nd person hold them to help line up right (thanks Mr. hrpiii ). I am going to really address the install of these because you can never have to much info on a project like this.

Even with a right angle drill I had to remove the fans and both radiator hoses. The passenger side was the easiest, the drivers side has lots of mostly non-flexible lines in the way.. I used 1/4"x1" self-tapping screws and an extra washer to mount them. I used a new titanium 13/64" drill bit which went through the frame rails pretty easily. Just drive the self-tapping screw in with a socket and hammer to get it started. Ideally you would mount the bracket with coils already installed but with my 1" screws I could not get the threads started enough. So I mounted an empty bracket and installed the coils afterwords (it is tight but doable)!

The best recommendation I can give is to install the coils in the bracket and then move it along the frame rail until you find a spot that is the most "free & clear". Pay particular note of clearance for the wire harnesses on the bottom, and plug wires on the top!! Also make a note (tape on the frame rails works) before removing the fans, so you know how far they stick out from the radiator. You don't want to mount the bracket to close to them or they may hit. Then disassemble the coil bracket and use that to mark and line up your holes. The drivers side is a bit more difficult navigating around the hard lines. I only removed upper & lower radiator hoses - so I navigated around these best I could. I ended up with one hose passing between the coils no matter what I did, So I test fitted with the stock plug wires and found the "sweet spot" where I could still get the plug wires on.

One key thing I thought of while assembling these in the brackets - insert the long carriage bolts starting from the firewall side and and put the nuts on the radiator side. This way if you ever have to remove them you should not have to remove the fan assembly again (you need several inches for the bolts to slide out and clear) the coils.

I test fitted my 52" coil harness extensions from Casper's (running out the rear of the engine), and they lined up perfectly!

Note - these pics are with the fans still removed, so there will not be this much space between the brackets and radiator when you are done.

[Synner]

Everyone harass the piss out of these guys to make a chrome water pump for us.

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