Heart Transplant - adding 172ci

[DJ]

It sure does look good.
The links are great, thanks.

[NES304]

No worries.

So ran the car for half hour to see how well the chinamat works and bugger me!! ITS SO FREAKIN HOT
so much that I can't put my hand on it. Mind you it was stationary.... And the bloody fuel lines are so noisy 😡🙉
Comments please

[JB]

Chinamat is for rattles not heat.

Mine was hot too. Gets better with floor covering etc, plus I wrapped the pipes.

Fuel pump not lines... Again sound deadening could help.

[NES304]

Hmmm the sound is only heard along the firewall as it goes up, not along the car.

The chinamat is so hot I can't keep my hand on it. Engine coolant maxing at 102deg

[JB]

I have hose that runs up the firewall so couldn't really say what it would be. Maybe it needs more securing as what could possibly be making noise in the lines.
The floor pan was so hot I could not put my feet on either. We made the floor flat which insulated it and then underlay and carpet. All good now. It's what you get squeezing it all in a little engine bay.

[FireKraka]

NES I'm with JB even with just the V6 my floor pan gets pretty hot especially around the gearbox hump carpet and underlay have helped a lot.
How close is your exhaust the the floor pan?
Getting closer mate.
Regards
Neil H

[NES304]

She's snug so I might have to wrap it.
Unsure how much that'll work. Found 15m black for $30. May have to get a few. The extractors I made were jet hot coated and still made the paint blister in the bay

[sgo]

With my v6 the floor front and back got very hot, this is where I had the muffler.
Put in a piece of flat gal sheet as a heat shield between floor and exhaust and that solved the problem.
Suspended on brackets with an air gap between  both floor and exhaust.

[Longman]

What about some heat shielding from a commo? Might be able to rig it up.

[NES304]

What about some heat shielding from a commo? Might be able to rig it up.

Full length x2 pipes!!! Yikes

[Longman]

Nah, not the whole pipes, but under front floors or mufflers, then wrap the rest?

[JB]

Got to look at the bright side... Winter is cold in East Sale! 😮😮

[NES304]

Got to look at the bright side... Winter is cold in East Sale! 😮😮

So I have six months to fix it!!

[NES304]

Not much on at the moment.

Pete sent some engine cover badges to swap out the HSV crap ones
I can't believe how good they've come up. Thanks Pete!!!!!!!


Although I can't decide between red writing or not.


Anyway here's the whole bit. Lighting doesn't do it justice

[Longman]

Nice. You're a legend Pete!

[camxsmith]

Nice engine plates.

[fe350chev]

I'm back. So you too are finding life getting in the way of your dreams. I better go see what photos have disappeared and put something on my page. I am here to offer encouragement lol.

[NES304]

Thanks mate. Here's my nuts

[NES304]

Oh and my dash panel

[Longman]

Thank god! For a second there when you said nuts, i immediately thought of an ADF tradition (of sorts)! The panel looks shmick!