"Project Orangepeel" 52 A.D

[reaper71]

Thanks Rusty

[reaper71]

Update:

Pic 1. Here is the doner motor for the truck.
It came out of a 99 Silverado (farm truck)

Pic 2. This was after 3hrs of scraping! Hands down the nastiest
engine I've ever seen!

Pic 3. Another shot showing the ugly vs pretty...ish side

Poc 4. This was after 4 rounds of power washing and
Scrubbing.

Poc 5. The new pan I'll be using (from 2010 camaro) not the best
Choice because of the sump area being so far forward.

Mark

[GreasyLikeaBurger]

I hear you on the scraping/cleaning part. I had a hell of a time cleaning up an engine at the shop that had a slow Pentosin(power steering fluid) leak. It would collect dirt and the heat of the engine turned it into a tar like goo. The easiest way I found to get it off, if you cant get it into a cleaning tank, was to use a bristle brush(tooth brush size one) and lots of degreaser to first break up the sticky stuff and get down to the metal surface. I found pressure washing straight at the goo, just wont cut through it quickly.

[Advanced Design]

Lotta elbow grease and a nice improvement Mark.

[mongocanfly]

Haha...I hear ya one the dirty engine...but I cheated and got one that was near spotless....not much to do but wipe down and paint...

[reaper71]

Thanks Guys for checking in!

I cant really complain on the engine though to much I bought the farm truck for $600 and after removing the vital parts I sold the rest for $500 to my sons friend.

Mark

[99 to Life]

Went through the same thing on my last LS. I use degreaser and brake cleaner. The brake cleaner really sucks up the moisture so the grease kinda flakes off better. Had about 60hrs in teardown, clean, paint, rebuilt, test stand start. I also sprayed the block then took a rosebud torque to it to get it dry. Those LS blocks have a ton of fins on them and hard to get to places.

[reaper71]

99, YES they do!! Lots of nooks and crannies!! for junk to collect.
Its clean enough for now till I have it all mocked up in the truck, I will be redoing the firewall (it sits inside the cab 2" DO TO PAN) Then Ill get it really clean and replace all the gaskets and paint it.

Mark

[lower50's]

Nice job.

[reaper71]

Thanks Lower

[reaper71]

Update time:

Pic 1 As I stated before do to the pan shape I had to move the engine back farther than expected.

Pic 2 Mocking up shape

Pic 3 after getting the shape I wanted I transferred to metal

Pic 4 Inside curve

Pic 5 more of backside

Mark

[Advanced Design]

Nice progress Mark. I like that intake!

[joedoh]

great fab work, I actually like a motor way back in the engine bay, so I appreciate your creative solution.

[reaper71]

Thanks Doug!
The Intake is from Summit and has the 92mm Throttle Body. (Dad surprised me with it!) I was talking about getting it and next thing you know there it was.

Mark

[reaper71]

Thanks Joedoh, at first I wasnt sure if I liked it but after I have some pieces cut and set in place its growing on me.

Mark

[99 to Life]

getting serious with it. be cool to add some factory beads into the new panel. I'm a sucker for the factory firewall beads. that intake is very nice!

[RockinKees]

Looks good Mark. I like the intake too!

[Advanced Design]

Originally Posted by reaper71

Thanks Doug!
The Intake is from Summit and has the 92mm Throttle Body. (Dad surprised me with it!) I was talking about getting it and next thing you know there it was.

Mark

Very nice of Jim. Great minds...

[reaper71]

Haha yes sir

[reaper71]

Update:

Pic 1 Some metal work finished up. (I dont have a bead roller so no cool beads )

Pic 2 Here I am showing the shape of the opening for the trans.

Pic 3 Firewall all welded in and metal finished.

Pic 4 Here I didnt have all the shots during the process when I was adding this section for the trans bell housing.

Pic 5 another view.

Mark

[mongocanfly]

Thats turning out great!...ill probably have to do something similar whenever I get done with my current project and back on my AD truck...so I'm always looking for ideas on firewall mods

[reaper71]

Thanks Greg.

Pic 1 The start of the trans cover.

Pic 2 didnt bother showing all the pieces, but you get the idea of the direction I'm going in.

Pic 3 The cover will be removable so I used Rivnuts

Pic 4 Almost done, a few more small pieces remain.

Pic 5 A shot from the front.

Although this is not a super fancy creative approach to this project it serves it's purpose.

Mark

[RockinKees]

Looks good to me Mark.
Why does I t have to be fancy? I asume you use some sort of carpet on the floor, so you don’t see it...

[reaper71]

Thanks Kees, What I mean about "fancy" is no bead rolling or anything of that nature. And yes it will be covered so it will not be seen.

Mark

[RockinKees]

Oh Haha, my bad.
I thought you go over the top beautiful with the floor....
Now I understand ;-)