Progress pics of "work"

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

I dropped my motor a couple of weeks ago for a clutch and misc work. I'm finally getting time to get some of it done, and here are some pics. So far: valve adjust, new plugs, some new senders/seals, engine mount cooler-new seals, some cleaning, painted fan and shroud. This weekend, I hope to paint the sheetmetal, install the new clutch/flywheel and the new Clewett plug wires (I hope they go in ok!)

As she sits now

New heater backdate duct from Widebody (Thom), the A/C is coming off, why not the heater fan also?

Since the engine bay is going to lose so much stuff, I bought a new intake setup from Evo, so the stock airbox is going too...
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Painted fan and housing...

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

I don't know why the intake pic came in as a URL...

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Looks great!

rcecale · rcecale's Garage

Looks fantastic, Ed! Can't wait to see the finished product. Keep on posting pics as you go, please.

Randy

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

Well, I think it looks better in the pics than in person. 1/2 my time has been spent cleaning.

Kurt B · 04-07-2005, 07:17 PM

That looks awesome. Too bad it has to go back in the car. Maybe a clear fiberglass decklid for some occasions would be in order...

JeremyD · JeremyD's Garage

Where'd you get the intake, Ed?

Brother · 04-07-2005, 07:25 PM

I like that you painted the fan to match the car. Makes more sense to me than the generic red powdercoat that the PO of my car did.

I did join the Ducktail club this week. Ruby was the straw that broke the camel's back in the inspiration department.

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

Jeremy: I got it at Evolution Motorsports: http://www.evoms.com/
They've got two versions, one goes straight out from the airbox, the other makes a right turn toward the rear of the car. That's the one I got. I'm not looking for any HP gains, just on a mission to clean up the engine bay.

Brother: The new tail looks great!

M.D. Holloway · 04-07-2005, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by efhughes3
Well, I think it looks better in the pics than in person. 1/2 my time has been spent cleaning.

and the other 1/2 is spent takin pics? Just kidding...it looks fantsatic. Write up the progreess and send some pics over and it will go into Slipstream as a follow-up piece.

Where Charles Freeman left off with the 911 restoration series, Ed Hughes can take over with the engine drop and upgrade series....(your semi-famous!).

RoninLB · 04-07-2005, 08:25 PM

I bet painting Thom's backdate parts and the fan housing strap the same color as the fan contrasted against the black fan housing would be nice. You'll have to do a very good paint job on it thou or it'll look lousy.

ianc · 04-07-2005, 09:41 PM

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why not the heater fan also?

Dunno why people always want to trash these (apart from decluttering the engine) because they sure make the heat work better...

ianc

RoninLB · 04-07-2005, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by ianc
Dunno why people always want to trash these (apart from decluttering the engine) because they sure make the heat work better...

"make the heat work better" at idle.. otherwise the minimum 3k rpm engine operation is +++ to push air.

efhughes3 · efhughes3's Garage

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Originally posted by ianc
Dunno why people always want to trash these (apart from decluttering the engine) because they sure make the heat work better...

ianc

I don't know, it seems like the footwell blowers do more to push hot air into the cabin than the fan in the engine bay. We'll see, may be worth a thread of it's own.

Mysterytrain · 04-08-2005, 06:31 AM

Could agree more. The footwell blowers are the cure. You can now have a warm cockpit while the engine is idling or the car is warming up in your drive. The are a bit of a pain to install. I went the extra yard and made custom harnesses and plumbed the ducts with the factory wye connectors so that heat in addition to the A/C would come out of the side vents. Mount a blower speed control under my voltage meter in the console. I bought some high wattage resistors to make a speed control network and I would advise that the motors always come on (slow) when the heater levers are lifted and not have an independant off on the speed switch. I think the rotating motor helps save the bearings from early death. Do a search on footwell blowers I think posted the info.