Three months to the day after slipping the engine back in "for keeps." I installed the aluminum covers over the now obsolete intake hole in the right fender-liner and "locked" the three grotesque GM computer connectors in place... both of which I'd saved for the final step before declaring everything directly engine/engine compartment related complete. So, apart from the set of black aluminum covers that completely hide all the crappola on the cowl, this is it.
I now have to finish fabricating the exhaust, put the 5-speed/drive-shaft to the XKE IRS back in, and... come up with a speed signal the GM computer can live with. We'll see if Dakota Digital's idea works! Finally, add coolant, 9x octane, then take it to a local LS engine guy to tune out the rear O2-sensors. There was absolutely no room to install the 4 cats, the fronts of which were "required" per GM to be located exactly where the bell-housing cross-member resides... and they are NOT small ones.
Who knows, maybe, just maybe it will be back on the street before spring--if workable weather holds!!! It could happen...
I now have to finish fabricating the exhaust, put the 5-speed/drive-shaft to the XKE IRS back in, and... come up with a speed signal the GM computer can live with. We'll see if Dakota Digital's idea works! Finally, add coolant, 9x octane, then take it to a local LS engine guy to tune out the rear O2-sensors. There was absolutely no room to install the 4 cats, the fronts of which were "required" per GM to be located exactly where the bell-housing cross-member resides... and they are NOT small ones.
Who knows, maybe, just maybe it will be back on the street before spring--if workable weather holds!!! It could happen...
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