Thread: Andesmint's 2000 GT.. BROKEN AGAIN!!

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

you just dont want to nick the cam bearings. so you need to be slow and easy with the cam in and out. why they use lots of lube.

what kind of lube? will KY jelly work? lol jkjk

Lol...too funny, but it works for me........

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/p...50/12028851-P#

or any of the other brands out there. https://www.google.com/search?q=asse...ed=0CAkQ_AUoBA

some guys will just use motor oil.

good to know.... I need to do some research on this and decide where i want to go with it.

Good idea and let us know what the outcome is! I'm interested...lol

they sell a stick that screws into the end of the cam, gives you the leverage to get it out and all the way back in the engine.

you tube has vids.

aight thanks scotty. any other random tips, tricks, or words of advice for when i get all of the parts together?

just take your time.

funny but if you go watch some of them engine building competitions, they slam the cam in the engine in like 3 seconds, you can pretty much hear every journal clicking past the bearings.

the engine only has to run for 5 minutes iirc when done so i dont think they care much.

thanks for the tips. ill be looking into it over the next couple weeks

Well, I got the new DP installed and the KR is gone! I needed to swap the DP out any ways... I had booger welded the shorty section on because i welded it while it was on the car LOL. I was also out of shielding gas so that didn't help. I normally wouldn't to a hack job like that but i wanted it done and i new i'd replace it when i could. SO here are some pics of the install!

The bolts connecting the DP to the resonator were not going to come out on the own, and i didn't want to snap them off. So i cut the heads off of the bolts to get the DP off. This left enough bolt sticking out to get a set of beefy vise grips clamped on to them. I then torched the bolts and the res where they thread in and i was able to turn them out after that. Here is whats left of them


I cleaned this up with a scotch bright wheel on the dye grinder after taking this photo


Here is the old style two bolt flange on the stainless headers... sooty in there


Old and the new. I know go ahead and make fun of my hack job on the old DP lol

You can clearly see i had a bad leak on the top where i had a hard time welding.

and here are some pics of it on the car

You can see the extra O2 bung with the plug installed. I'm going to use this for a wideband down the road

Awesome job....man! Looks good.

Nice! Congrats on ditching the kr

Originally Posted by Flip97GTP

Awesome job....man! Looks good.

thanks man! went really smooth other then having to cut those two bolts

Originally Posted by theaceofspades

Nice! Congrats on ditching the kr

thanks. so glad its gone!

Amazing how replacing a pipe clears up 5*+ of KR and I'm sure the car is mucho better at WOT now.

Originally Posted by DanPrixGTP

Amazing how replacing a pipe clears up 5*+ of KR and I'm sure the car is mucho better at WOT now.

It is SO much faster. I cannot believe how much of a difference that timing makes haha. It sounds great now too

Originally Posted by andesmint

It is SO much faster. I cannot believe how much of a difference that timing makes haha. It sounds great now too

Dont get too carried away now. Lol. Rarely any 3800 sounds "great." The exhaust note from these cars are so Poo.

How's it feel to officially have a blower on the car compared to N/a?

I say it sounds great now because it had an exhaust leak prior LOL. And it is AWESOME. Other than deisle pickups and semis this is the first forced induction car I've driven. I don't think I'll ever go back to NA unless its for a daily beater car

Awww man, quite jelly!

Glad to see the KR is gone.

Originally Posted by nos4blood70

Awww man, quite jelly!

Glad to see the KR is gone.

Thanks man!

Originally Posted by andesmint

I say it sounds great now because it had an exhaust leak prior LOL. And it is AWESOME. Other than deisle pickups and semis this is the first forced induction car I've driven. I don't think I'll ever go back to NA unless its for a daily beater car

My new vehicle is all motor and makes more power than your car does lol. But its also a tad bigger.