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Originally Posted by mr2v63vz
I LOVE THESE IN DEPTH BUILDS, I LOVE THE HEART AND SOUL! i wish i had means of doing this in my garage...id never leave!
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Thanks a lot, man! Oh yeah I am very blessed with the resources both here at my house with a lift and full range of tools as well as a good friend to let me play in his automotive shop to do the more tedious work!
Trak Turtle: Also the reason I stuck with a stock based rear brake set-up instead of going with the Wilwood 4 piston rear bbk kit is because I drag race as well and my drag wheels are 15's in the rear thus limiting me to a smaller rotor size unfortunately. However, the rear brake set-up I have should be more than enough and I can control the brake bias now with the adjustable proportioning valve so I can set-up my brakes however I would like whether it's for the drag strip or the road course. When I go to the drag strip I'm going to really favor the front brakes so it's easier to do a burnout to warm the slicks up.
Ohhhh yeah...somewhat bad news....kinda. Bad in the sense that no assembly of the brakes/knuckles. I was starting to assemble the hubs and got the wheels bearings in and realized that Toyota forgot to send the wheal bearing seals. No problem I'll just call Toyota and get them the next day at the lastest.....Nope! They are a 3-4 day wait from Monday. Soooo I can't assemble any further till i get the seals which sucks but oh well. Nothing I can do. I also priced out new rear '93+ turbo brake dust shields for giggles cause mine were pretty beat up and they were only $30 a piece so I ordered them up and paid the extra to rush them here which was minimal ($4 hah).
Sooo next weekend will be a mad assembly weekend since I am getting the head back this week and the last of the steering and suspension pieces I need. Hopefully (fingers crossed) the drivetrain will be completely assembled ready to go in the car as well as the car ready to accept the engine. I'm still shooting for the weekend after next to head to Texas for the final stage of the manifold assembly and tune. SOOOO we shall see.
Right now I'm doing a lot of the small stuff that is needed which is actually a lot of work. It's easy but still takes time.
Valve cover all welded up. I have a -12 fitting welded in for the PCV that will have a 90* anotuff (black) -12 hose end with -12 prolite 350 lines running to my catch-can that I posted earlier.
I also has the 2 holes that the bolts for the stock TB support go through welded shut as well as the hole below and to the right of the #2 spark plug hole welded shut (originally has a nipple there that ran to the TB). I'm going to be cleaning up the welds on the fitting (big ol fatties on there but I can make them not and smooth easily) and making the holes that were welded shut nice and smooth and then coating the VC in the metallic blue I did it in before.
This is my last valve cover that I painted myself and the new one will look exactly the same as far as the color goes.
