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few things i didn't know about......
1. stock coolant tube has a sensor on it that people say is for the defroster temperature, that the new PI doesnt have.....i have no heater core, so i didn't worry bout that one
2. the NPI gaskets CAN be placed on the PI intake and allowed to set PRIOR to setting the intake in place on the cylinder head ports......all i did was put a 1/4" bead of hi-temp RTV on the parts of the intake runners that needed it, placed the NPI gaskets on the intake (while the intake was upside down)......pressed down on them to make a good seal, and placed the entire intake upside down between two boxes, and placed two heavy encylopedia books on the gaskets so RTV would dry evenly, and not lope the gaskets to one side.....with the RTV dried, it can then be slide underneath the fuel rails/injectors without having to disconnect them....i just had my dad hold the rails/injectors up while i slid it in
3. the pass. side fuel rail did not sit down properly because the hard white fuel line that goes to the drivers' side (around the rear vicinity of the engine, not the front one) hit the [taller] intake runner that it is near......the rear pass. side injector was a good 1/4" from the actual intake manifold itself.......had to separate the fuel lines where they are 'connected' together with small welds on the metal parts.......this allowed the fuel lines to separate at that metal junction and this finally allowed me to finish the swap
don't have pics, but will definitely have some soon so everyone can see what i'm talking about
a million thanks to Jurgen, who helped me out tremendously with this swap, and the C&L plenum swap....i will also get pics of the mod he told me for the brakes w/o drilling plenum
since the machine shops here were way overpricing me to drill/tap the aluminum Xover, i bought the 9/16" drill bit, and the 3/8" NPT tap and tapped it myself....zero problems.......so if anyone needs their Xover tapped, just send it on over
1. stock coolant tube has a sensor on it that people say is for the defroster temperature, that the new PI doesnt have.....i have no heater core, so i didn't worry bout that one
2. the NPI gaskets CAN be placed on the PI intake and allowed to set PRIOR to setting the intake in place on the cylinder head ports......all i did was put a 1/4" bead of hi-temp RTV on the parts of the intake runners that needed it, placed the NPI gaskets on the intake (while the intake was upside down)......pressed down on them to make a good seal, and placed the entire intake upside down between two boxes, and placed two heavy encylopedia books on the gaskets so RTV would dry evenly, and not lope the gaskets to one side.....with the RTV dried, it can then be slide underneath the fuel rails/injectors without having to disconnect them....i just had my dad hold the rails/injectors up while i slid it in
3. the pass. side fuel rail did not sit down properly because the hard white fuel line that goes to the drivers' side (around the rear vicinity of the engine, not the front one) hit the [taller] intake runner that it is near......the rear pass. side injector was a good 1/4" from the actual intake manifold itself.......had to separate the fuel lines where they are 'connected' together with small welds on the metal parts.......this allowed the fuel lines to separate at that metal junction and this finally allowed me to finish the swap
don't have pics, but will definitely have some soon so everyone can see what i'm talking about
a million thanks to Jurgen, who helped me out tremendously with this swap, and the C&L plenum swap....i will also get pics of the mod he told me for the brakes w/o drilling plenum
since the machine shops here were way overpricing me to drill/tap the aluminum Xover, i bought the 9/16" drill bit, and the 3/8" NPT tap and tapped it myself....zero problems.......so if anyone needs their Xover tapped, just send it on over
