My ‘89 GT build

sigsterrr · Feb 27, 2019

I cleaned the pistons with acetone if I remember right. It’s the same chemical as the spray foam stuff. Yes I installed, the tfs stage 1 cam. Read the fine print on the heads and you’ll see they easily clear a cam under .500 lift.

sigsterrr · Feb 27, 2019

Finally able to do more work, but only for a short time. First, I fit the Cobra booster before doing any body work. For those curious, I grinded the welds (I welded up all the bolt holes when I was welding up the rest of the engine bay) on the panel at the top of the firewall, put a skim coat of bodyfiller and then sanded it smooth. First using a 3m filing board with 80 grit, then hand sanding the hard to reach spots (with 80 grit). I scuffed the entire engine bay with Carborundum red scuff pads (my favorite) before primering it. If it wasn’t raining I might have shot it with some basecoat/clearcoat today also. Just a couple spots to fill/sand and it will finally be ready.

JimZim · Feb 27, 2019

I will. I called Edelbrock this morning and they told me that I would have to add relief when using the 60399 5.0 Performer heads with 2.02" intakes. I see you have the factory E7ZA- 0 -CA forged pistons. I am going to see if there is an installation note on the SVE heads at LMR. I won't know until I tear the engine apart and check. Your heads look like a copy of those that I have.

sigsterrr · Feb 27, 2019

JimZim said:
I will. I called Edelbrock this morning and they told me that I would have to add relief when using the 60399 5.0 Performer heads with 2.02" intakes. I see you have the factory E7ZA- 0 -CA forged pistons. I am going to see if there is an installation note on the SVE heads at LMR. I won't know until I tear the engine apart and check. Your heads look like a copy of those that I have.

Not all heads are the same. Some angle the valves differently specifically to allow a larger lift without flycutting.

sigsterrr · Feb 28, 2019

Basecoat/clearcoated the engine bay. The only spot that really mattered, the wiper cowl, got some dust in it. I may need to reshoot the cowl, but at least now I can start putting stuff back in the engine bay finally.

a91what · Feb 28, 2019

Man you move fast, I live in the Plant city area and work in Tampa... I have all kinds of parts sitting either on a shelf or in a bin.

OneSick99GT · Feb 28, 2019

^^ No kidding!!

sigsterrr · Feb 28, 2019

Ha A91what. I live in Wesley Chapel and I’m in plant city often. Best Cuban sandwiches. Do you have a driver side fender liner? I’ll trade you for a gt40, 3 bar head.

a91what · Feb 28, 2019

I actually may have a fender liner in the shed, I have no use for the cylinder head but your welcome to PM me and we can set something up.

sigsterrr · Mar 2, 2019

Doesn’t look like I did much today, but I spent about 8 hours on it today. Painted the rest of the engine bay, painted ac accumulator bracket, radiator brackets, distributor, cobra brake booster. Installed brake booster and new master cylinder (they are just in place and not bolted in yet though). Installed ac accumulator and bracket, distributor, pass side valve cover (swapped cork for felpro) and a few other hits on the engine. ARP flywheel bolts get here Monday. Hopefully by Friday I will have the engine and transmission in the car.

sigsterrr · Mar 2, 2019

I had to cut 2 flanges off my old headers since the new ones are larger tubes. I wanted to use the factory lift brackets to install the motor.

Rdub6 · Mar 2, 2019

Lookin good for sure! Nice work!

mikestang63 · Mar 2, 2019

sigsterrr said:

save up for a good set of afr or TW heads

sigsterrr · Mar 3, 2019

mikestang63 said:
save up for a good set of afr or TW heads

I’m quite happy with the sve heads.

mikestang63 · Mar 3, 2019

sigsterrr said:
I’m quite happy with the sve heads.

glad to hear it.
They are no where near the quality or flow the same though.

TOOLOW91 · Mar 4, 2019

JimZim said:
I will. I called Edelbrock this morning and they told me that I would have to add relief when using the 60399 5.0 Performer heads with 2.02" intakes. I see you have the factory E7ZA- 0 -CA forged pistons. I am going to see if there is an installation note on the SVE heads at LMR. I won't know until I tear the engine apart and check. Your heads look like a copy of those that I have.

Standard valve angle heads this is correct . Those SVE heads are basically knock of Twisted wedge heads which work fine in this instance . I used tw heads with the same cam about 4-5 years ago and it worked fine

Anti_Hero0932 · Mar 4, 2019

I think i had a set of the SVE heads on an old GT i had they were awesome for what i was doing with the car.

sigsterrr · Mar 5, 2019

Finally got the engine and trans back in.

JimZim · Mar 5, 2019

Looks great! Keep up the good work.

sigsterrr · Mar 5, 2019

Thanks Jim

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