Thread: Project Special K

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Don - I will try and get someone to help build one. I wish I had your skills with metal and the tools to fabricate one myself! And thanks for the kind words! Not sure how to go about it, might have to mock something up in cardboard and then go to my local welder and have him do the metal work. He's a nice guy and is reasonable(make that dambed nice) for what he charges!

Been awhile since I've gotten out to workon the truck. Last week I reorders a new accelerator cable to fix my stuck to the floor gas pedal problem. It came in the mail today, so hopefully tomorrow or soon after, I'll be recovered enough to start wiring the engine, and ultimately getting it started, before it siezes from neglect! I have turned it over by hand a few times and primed the oil pump shaft using the primer Tech recogmended. Anyway, I'm getting excited to get back on this project. Thanks for following this thread. Steve.

Got out to garage and did a decent amount of finishing lose end stuff. I was able to finish installing the radiator(needed two spacers from hardware store). Next I connected the transmission coolant lines to the radiator, then fabricated some metal tubing into a vacuum line from the transmission modulator to another port in the intake manifold. Found my old stock exhaust manifolds and took the donut connectors off along with about 18 inches of old pipe, without striping any bolts. Cleaned off the manifolds washed down, and set out to dry(black widows had found a nice home in there!
One of the manifolds has a hairline crack in the middle of the front side, which I hope won't matter, since I just want to bolt these on for engine break in and initial start up. My Sanderson headers say not to install them until after breakin, as this could cause blemishing in the ceramic coatings. So I'm hoping the old manifolds will work for a few weeks! Another question that comes to mind is should I cut some short pieces of exhaust pipe to temperarily connect the old mufflers for the time being, or can I just run the straight stock manifolds?
Any help here would be appreciated as always. My goal is to get the wiring done next, and start and break in the engine before new year. I hope after that things will start coming together faster. All of my other distractions are over for winter and spring(deer season is over, and all the summer house projects are done). Anyways felt good to get back to work on the beast again. I guess I just needed a break to get remotivated. It also helps reading everyone elses threads!

[QUOTE=stovens;369279]Got out to garage and (snip)* nifolds and took the donut connectors off along with about 18 inches of old pipe, without striping any bolts. Cleaned off the manifolds washed down, and set out to dry(black widows had found a nice home in there! (snip)
Spiders --- UGH. That's why I tolerate the cold and the snow here in Maine.

Wow, you're gonna have yours going before I get mine going!
Perley