BBR's 83GT - 552 BBF version 3.0 (at least)

[Monster]

I'm playing the odds that I won't drop anything. Injectors will be going in today or tomorrow.

Com'mon, you know better than that ...

[BBR]

Danger is my middle name.

I'm playing the odds that I won't drop anything. Injectors will be going in today or tomorrow.

[SuperBuickGuy]

not to be that guy... but why don't you have plugs in the injector holes? decided to live dangerously?

[BBR]

I may just put a nylock nut on the bolt just under the base, loosely, to act as a retainer.

[DanStokes]

Safety wire? Not Like I know how to do that..... Thinking you could weld washers next to the bolts and wire them to the washers. Just thinking' out loud.

[BBR]

Plate, tb and throttle cable all done. Sometimes the most time consuming part of all this is finding suitable hardware for it all.

I put coupler nuts on two plate studs so I can bolt the air pan on. I will definitely put some locktite on those.

[BBR]

ABS air filter ring fits really really tight even though I scaled it up a little. I guess ABS shrinks when it cools. It still needed a small notch for the TPS. I may make another. Throttle cable mount is also finished.

Exhaust is fully welded. The mufflers were hard to weld. I kept burning through. The old Ranger air dam conceals everything pretty well. I added an O2 bung to the driver's side. Everything will come back out and get a nice coat of black BBQ paint.

[BBR]

Started making a throttle cable mount. Final version will have a little tab to keep it pointed the right direction.

[DanStokes]

Oh, you modern kids!

[BBR]

Something like this. This is just a test piece I printed yesterday.

[BBR]

3D print an adapter with a bell mouth?

I may try that. I have some ABS, it *might* be temperature resistant enough to use. PLA would turn to goo in a few seconds.

[Russell]

3D print an adapter with a bell mouth?

[BBR]

I like the look of the big throttle body elbow, but it just makes other stuff, namely air filter mounting, a total mess.
I got this hunk of aluminum with a throttle body I bought almost 10 years ago. It was intended to adapt a 95mm Foxbody style TB to a Holley Dominator pattern intake. I dug it out, drilled and tapped the LS pattern and test fit it to the intake. This TB is 102mm so it is just a little bigger than the current hole. Still playing with what direction to mount it so the throttle cable makes sense.

I have some ideas on how to mount a regular 14" open element air filter on it without much trouble.

[BBR]

Fuel plumbing was the task yesterday. It's always a challenge to piece it together with hoses and fittings you have on hand. I think I have a handle on it.

That 90 degree elbow looks cool, but the packaging in this car is awful. I like the TB, the throttle response with that large blade was awesome. I am thinking of mounting the TB differently, probably pointing up.

[BBR]

Here we go down the front exhaust rabbit hole. Pretty simple. Couple of bends, 19" of tubing and a muffler. The left header goes right and the right header goes left. They exit just under the fender. I am going to reinstall the Ranger air dam I used to run. It should help everything blend together and look better.

I probably could have run left to left and right to right, but the left header already bends to the right so it would have really needed some tight goofy bends to go left. This way was just easier for me. I *might* H pipe them together.

I did have to perform a baffle-ectomy on the mufflers with the bandsaw. I took one look into the inlet and knew these had to be opened up.