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Message: [QUOTE="Krause, post: 1178000, member: 331"] Alright, Had a good weekend of work, doesn't seem like I accomplished a lot, but did get some things sorted out. I'll start with the up pipes, they were primered and painted with VHT flame proof paint. I wanted to do ceramic coating, but they are getting wrapped, and seeing as though they are stainless I'm really not that worried about it. [ATTACH=full]149306[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]149307[/ATTACH] Once they were painted and baked, I was going to take a DA sander to the mating face of the turbo mount, and try to get it as smooth as possible. Well I hadn't realized it before, but right off the bat, I had a big high spot. I guess some of the heat we laid into the angle iron pulled/pushed it around a bit, and a straight edge across felt like a teeter-totter. Magnum mentioned this a little while back, didnt realize it was this bad initially, my mistake :(. So I didn't really know what to do short of taking it to a machine shop. Pretty much resorted to the good old file. [ATTACH=full]149308[/ATTACH] You can see the high spot here ^ on the top of the plate roughly above the web space/divider. Spent a good couple hours carefully hand filling everything down. [ATTACH=full]149309[/ATTACH] Then they got the exhaust wrap, which is why I was never too worried about the appearance of these thing, I think they look sweet now! [ATTACH=full]149310[/ATTACH] Then I went after the oil rail end plugs on the back. Got them removed, the NEED a bit of heat. I didn't know this at first, and was legitimately bouncing my entire weight on the end of a breaker bar, and they would not break loose. A bit of heat from a propane torch, and they came free. Here is the plug with seal removed. [ATTACH=full]149311[/ATTACH] And the new seal from Guzzle. The original is black. [ATTACH=full]149312[/ATTACH] Then you put loctite 277 on the threads, and they go back in to 60Ft/LBS. Then, time to put the intake plenums on for real. Clay's have this nifty o-ring seal, which is ultimately the reason I went with these at a bit more cost than other options. Have read one too many stories of guys checking for boost leaks and finding they didn't quite get a good seal in one corner of their plenum with ford grey, and had to do it all over again. No thanks.. [ATTACH=full]149313[/ATTACH] Bolted down, can't recall the torque spec here. [ATTACH=full]149314[/ATTACH] And finally, the big wait was over, and I got this sweet little unit from Clay as well. This is the injector cup too set, on the left is the remover, and the right is the installer. [ATTACH=full]149315[/ATTACH] Both of them bolt down onto the injector hold down bolt-holes. [ATTACH=full]149316[/ATTACH] With the arrow facing the springs.. [ATTACH=full]149317[/ATTACH] One tip I will mention, I just saw this on a youtube vid, is that to insure no shavings from the injector cups end up in the cylinder as the removal tool bites into it, you can throw a penny down in the injector cup. Pretty much a perfect fit, and if there was going to be anything fall down there, it'll come up with the injector cup. [ATTACH=full]149318[/ATTACH] So once you thread the removal tool in, and then thread it up, the old one pops right out. [ATTACH=full]149319[/ATTACH] The new once gets prepped, clean the bore with a circular wire brush on a drill or something, [ATTACH=full]149320[/ATTACH] And stick em in. [ATTACH=full]149321[/ATTACH] -Andrew [/QUOTE]