Ok well after hours, broken nuckles, sweat, and blood it's about done....Me and my friend put on my o/r hpipe, and shorty headers. I broke 2 spark plugs and we kept running into problems. In the end it all came together, I'm sure with a lift, and all the right tools it would have been a walk in the park.
We learned a lot about improving old parts because things don't always go as planned and take a few hours...more like many hours
The car sounds great and is right where I wanted it, not too loud but loud enough. I have been doing a lot of work to the car the past few days and over 20 hours of labor. Along with the new exhaust the a/c and smog was torn out. I had a bolt stuck on the water pump that had to come out because of the plate for the belt tensor. It was backed out but there was soo much build up I could not pull it out...I had to take off the 17 year old water pump and decided to replace it while I was at it. It was $25 for the pump after I gave them my core and I could not complain. Now thats on the car along with just about all the unneccery parts the bay looks a LOT cleaner.
Today I took it out to see how it felt and unless it's just the sound that makes it 'seem' faster it sure seems to pull harder.
1st gear is usless and it was before so I can't really tell other than it just winds up faster..before I could hook going from a 2nd gear roll now it spins. My tranny is bad so i really have to granny shift 2nd and it never broke them loose because of how slow I have to shift. Today it was just chirping going into 2nd but if I could really hit it, I know it would really break em.
Overall I'm happy and love the new sound, only problem is the one side hangs pretty low and I'm unsure why. I'm think I mixed up the small mac connection pipes that run from the mufflers to the h? I had them side by side and they seemed the same so I'm a little lost. I still need to get the h-pipe pluged and the 2 bolts for the back of the block. I have a small vac. leak and some lines are not capped off. Yet the cars idles almost perfect but enough that you can tell somthing needs minor adjustment.
I'm going to put my new lights on right now and still have a lot of work ahead of me. The car needs the tps to be set, the vac. lines, a new rear brake line, the timing to be set, and my tranny is horrid going into 2nd gear....
We learned a lot about improving old parts because things don't always go as planned and take a few hours...more like many hours
The car sounds great and is right where I wanted it, not too loud but loud enough. I have been doing a lot of work to the car the past few days and over 20 hours of labor. Along with the new exhaust the a/c and smog was torn out. I had a bolt stuck on the water pump that had to come out because of the plate for the belt tensor. It was backed out but there was soo much build up I could not pull it out...I had to take off the 17 year old water pump and decided to replace it while I was at it. It was $25 for the pump after I gave them my core and I could not complain. Now thats on the car along with just about all the unneccery parts the bay looks a LOT cleaner.
Today I took it out to see how it felt and unless it's just the sound that makes it 'seem' faster it sure seems to pull harder.
1st gear is usless and it was before so I can't really tell other than it just winds up faster..before I could hook going from a 2nd gear roll now it spins. My tranny is bad so i really have to granny shift 2nd and it never broke them loose because of how slow I have to shift. Today it was just chirping going into 2nd but if I could really hit it, I know it would really break em.
Overall I'm happy and love the new sound, only problem is the one side hangs pretty low and I'm unsure why. I'm think I mixed up the small mac connection pipes that run from the mufflers to the h? I had them side by side and they seemed the same so I'm a little lost. I still need to get the h-pipe pluged and the 2 bolts for the back of the block. I have a small vac. leak and some lines are not capped off. Yet the cars idles almost perfect but enough that you can tell somthing needs minor adjustment.
I'm going to put my new lights on right now and still have a lot of work ahead of me. The car needs the tps to be set, the vac. lines, a new rear brake line, the timing to be set, and my tranny is horrid going into 2nd gear....