My daughter has worked getting the top end of her engine tore apart... took her about 2.5 hours... good job
she did do the wrenching for the most part:479:, I did the water pump and harmonic pulley, she did everything else.... pretty much. she even lifted the manifold off and I had not removed a stock one in awhile... when I went to flip it over to look at something I realized how heavy.....And we're supposed to believe she did the wrenching? But what caught my eye the most was her necklace.
In reference to Permatex, I use the type that doesn't totally harden and remains somewhat pliable.Okay, you asked for pointers or suggestions so I'll give you some. Aluminum is very prone for corrosion and bolts should never be screwed into it unless there is no other choice. Because water can get into the bottoms of the tapped holes and then when the bolt is removed it seizes. So I suggest putting studs into the manifold and then use nuts to secure the parts................such as the carburetor and thermostat housing. As the thermostat housing is so close to water they are extremely prone for having bolts seize. If you really want to use bolts coat their threads with either silicon or Permatex Aviation Form-A-Gasket to prevent water entering.
I recently put an Edelbrock RPM Air Gap on my big block '71 and I put studs in the carburetor mounting flange with blue LOCTITE on their threads (the LOCTITE will secure them and also prevent water from entering) and used bolts coated with Permatex for my thermostat housing.
no big deal ....your seem to route across the top of valve covers around to over the top of Exhaust manifold . Hers come straight off the distributor and route downalong side the bell housing to motor block and come under the exhaust manifold to plugs. They use to lay in a factory chrome chanel that was bolted to the side of the block PAIN IN AZZ.. we removed this but they are still routed in that layout.I don't understand what the big deal is as it's very easy to route the wires so they look clean. All three of my C3's are wired like this:
these were chrome and an absolute pain..... i did not know about the distributor cap.... probably would not have had to make the 2 custom plug wires if I had that....The original channels were made out of aluminum so if you had chrome ones they were aftermarket.
these were chrome and an absolute pain..... i did not know about the distributor cap.... probably would not have had to make the 2 custom plug wires if I had that....