View Full Version : It lives!!!! Longtubes day 2
hobbstc
10-19-2003, 09:00 PM
Well, JD and Greg and I worked on it again today. Greg left after we got the k-member backup. JDs lowering sprigs didn't come in yesterday, so we didnt put the rest of the suspension back together. Hes hoping they come in tomorrow. I put the motor back together and JD worked on the O2 extensions. I got the offroad h in place and we decided to fire it up without attaching the Flows. CLick- click. Dead battery. We took the battery out of mine, put it in, and HOLY CRAP IT SOUNDS FRICKIN AWESOME! I couldn't hear any leaks at the header, Greg and JD got those tightened up real well. Anyway, JD will be pulling up with a sweet new sound at Soics Tues night.
brandboZ28
10-19-2003, 09:18 PM
Nice work guys!!!
01COBRA
10-19-2003, 09:20 PM
great to hear nice work can't wait to hear it.
Good job guys! Hobbstc if you want some longtubes for your car I will be selling the ones off my cobra soon.
Greg Kulbick
10-20-2003, 07:28 AM
He'll be putting them on by his damn self if he does buy them.
First off, a big thanks goes out to Greg, Tom, and Tony. Greg and Tom pretty much gave up their weekend to help, and Tony is letting me work on the car in his carport for what's turning out to be a three-day affair. This is a fun job :roll: . I've got a couple of pics if someone can host them. The headers look great in there, and can you say LOUD? I forgot what it was like to go without cats AND mufflers. :lol:
Like Tom said, we got it up and running. It has no front suspension, but it's running. Had just a bit of smoke from the front of the driver's side, but it was probably just a little threadlock burning off or something that we got on it during the install.
Have a set of front lowering springs coming in, but I don't know if they'll be here or not since the tracking number I got doesn't work (hope I'm not being screwed). Front 03 Cobra Bilsteins are going on as well. Then it's off to the alignment shop.
Hi Bryan :twisted: .
Greg Kulbick
10-20-2003, 07:34 AM
Wait about a week before you get an alignment. Give the new springs a chance to settle.
Jeff,
Just attach the pics to the post.
Tony
Here they are. Sorry about that last one, Greg. I couldn't help myself. :bo:
ROFL, that last pic is great
Tony
99mustang
10-20-2003, 04:25 PM
it looks like a tight fit, i know mine were a bitch and my engine is smaller. I cant weight to hear it.
93zm6tally
10-20-2003, 04:46 PM
Sure seems like i've spent a lot of time lately on my back underneath my Z. Will someone please buy a lift so that installations can be done standing up like a man. :?:
brandboZ28
10-20-2003, 04:50 PM
I think I would rather spend that 2 grand on my car rather than on tools, tho it is a good idea.
brandboZ28
10-20-2003, 06:32 PM
So, is it alive or not?
redmach1
10-20-2003, 06:45 PM
Jack stand and a block of wood to get that frikin' cherry picker out of the way...... Nice job guys, can't wait to hear that thing pass my house in the wee hours of the morning. :twisted:
Greg Kulbick
10-20-2003, 07:06 PM
We had the jackstand under the tranny to catch it since the hoist didn't stay up, kept falling real slowly.
Signal 12
10-21-2003, 07:26 AM
Looks good fellas :)
So, is it alive or not?
Oh it's alive alright. It's just not going anywhere until the damn springs show up from the UPS guy. They were supposedly shipped by the seller on Thursday via UPS Second Day, but I'm willing to bet that the guy sent them ground and that they'll show up today after work.
Everything is back together on the engine and exhaust (sounds awesome :twisted: ) and the Bilsteins are in too with the new dust cover installed on the one that needed it. From here, it's springs, attach the brakes/wheels, lower the car and haul ass to celebrate with a tall cold one!!! :qball:
pendrgn
10-21-2003, 07:48 AM
looking good... cant wait to hear them... I can tell by the nice job that is was non-bo workmanship. lol...
sorry bo...
:bo:
looking good... cant wait to hear them... I can tell by the nice job that is was non-bo workmanship. lol...
sorry bo...
:bo:
Wanna hear the craziest part of it? Tony can attest to this: There were NO exhaust leaks the first time I fired it up! INSANE- that never happens! I did the H-to-flowtubes connections, but Tom gets all the credit for the header-to-H connections. Thanks again, Tom! 8)
What about the head to header connections on the driver's side? Thanks meany. :(
EDIT by Big Meanyhead:
AND... Greg is responsible for ensuring that I don't have to go back in and tighten up the header bolts/studs after doing such a bang-up job getting them in. He's awesome :joystick:
Greg Kulbick
10-21-2003, 08:00 AM
What about the head to header connections on the driver's side? Thanks meany. :(
Signal 12
10-21-2003, 08:56 AM
What about the head to header connections on the driver's side? Thanks meany. :(
no soup for you
Greg Kulbick
10-21-2003, 09:38 AM
ROFL, that last pic is great
Tony
If you look real close, you actually look straight up my nose and see my brain. nice pic Jeff.
Looks like the tracking number that the guy gave me on the springs is working now. I guess they just hadn't gotten it into the system.
Anyway, they're being delivered today so if I can get them from the UPS guy I'll install them tonight and roll. Yay.
Greg Kulbick
10-21-2003, 10:22 AM
Don't forget to bolt the steering arm up.
Don't forget to bolt the steering arm up.
I was reminding myself to do that this morning. Wanna come help?
Greg Kulbick
10-21-2003, 10:46 AM
Class until 6:30 then homework.
hobbstc
10-21-2003, 11:49 AM
Put a Borgenson steering shaft on it...
Put a Borgenson steering shaft on it...
Just a little too spendy this week :mad1:
hobbstc
10-21-2003, 01:33 PM
C'mon, its only another $250:)
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