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SlipknotSmoothi
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- Feb 24, 2011
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Fayetteville,
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Captains Log 02112020;
Things are moving along well now. I missed my Monday update because we were out celebrating my youngest daughter's 5th birthday. It was a bit of a much needed break for me, since I've been putting in a bit of work around the GSX in the past week.
I went ahead and got the engine back into the engine bay, but it is still on the engine stand. I needed it in its relative position so that I could plan some routing of oil and fuel lines, fuel filter, fuel pressure regulator. Small things, but things I only want to do once. It took just under an hour to complete and I got it on video, you can see the link for that below. I also got the radiator mounted, so that I can plan some potential ducting for the cooling system. I had lots of cooling issues before, so I'm really investing some effort into trying to resolve that early and permanently as well. I've included a picture of that with my fantastic JM Fab radiator brackets, in purple. The bottom posts of the radiator had electrical tape wrapped several hundred times - that was what the previous owner had used as a bushing. Sigh. I got 2 OE replacements from ExtremePSI and got those installed too. Now it fits like it should and we're all happy.
Next on my priority list is to get the intercooler and oil cooler properly mounted. I'm going to have to make a bash bar / 'wire frame' type of apparatus to support the bumper, since that was removed before I got the car, and to properly mount the coolers... along with the horns, and likely a few other custom electronic items. I'll certainly be getting video of that, as it will be very involved and different from what I see these days.
That is all I have for today!
Things are moving along well now. I missed my Monday update because we were out celebrating my youngest daughter's 5th birthday. It was a bit of a much needed break for me, since I've been putting in a bit of work around the GSX in the past week.
I went ahead and got the engine back into the engine bay, but it is still on the engine stand. I needed it in its relative position so that I could plan some routing of oil and fuel lines, fuel filter, fuel pressure regulator. Small things, but things I only want to do once. It took just under an hour to complete and I got it on video, you can see the link for that below. I also got the radiator mounted, so that I can plan some potential ducting for the cooling system. I had lots of cooling issues before, so I'm really investing some effort into trying to resolve that early and permanently as well. I've included a picture of that with my fantastic JM Fab radiator brackets, in purple. The bottom posts of the radiator had electrical tape wrapped several hundred times - that was what the previous owner had used as a bushing. Sigh. I got 2 OE replacements from ExtremePSI and got those installed too. Now it fits like it should and we're all happy.
Next on my priority list is to get the intercooler and oil cooler properly mounted. I'm going to have to make a bash bar / 'wire frame' type of apparatus to support the bumper, since that was removed before I got the car, and to properly mount the coolers... along with the horns, and likely a few other custom electronic items. I'll certainly be getting video of that, as it will be very involved and different from what I see these days.
That is all I have for today!