So what brand is the new one?

Good work so far.

The new system is actually a Jegs system. I was surprised at how few options this particular car has for catbacks, especially if you want a 3 inch system (this is a dual cat car). I had a look inside the muffler tonight & it looks very "Flowmaster'ish". My understanding is that these systems are built by Hearthrob for Jegs. The build quality looks pretty good sitting on the garage floor.....guess I'll know in the morning how it sounds ( & fits).

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Finally got a chance to get the exhaust on the car this morning. Fit is extremely good.....very pleased. The sound is exactly what I was hoping for!! Very pleased with the system so far.

Also had a chance this week to replace the bushings in the left headlight motor, so I now have 2 functioning headlights again!!

After removing the old system it became apparent what a piece of crap the old system was. I won't be missing it at all!

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At this point about all I really have left to do to the car to get it on the road in the spring is to put catalytic converters back in the car again to get it to pass emissions. The previous owner of the car lives about an hour north of me where there is no emission testing & had the cats cut out & replaced with straight pipe (poorly done as well as those welds were all leaking). Given that I had intentions of putting long tubes on this car right from day one, it doesn't make any sense to put new cats in the factory y-pipe, only to rip them out when I put the headers in, so I think I'll just bite the bullet & do the headers/y-pipe/cats over the winter & just be done with it.

I have still been puttering away with things related to the car though. As I mentioned in an earlier post the rad fans weren't working when I got the car. Looking at things a little closer I've also noticed the rad to be relatively new as well. Those 2 factors got me wondering if the car may have been overheated ....maybe more than once. The car didn't really run when I brought it home so I haven't driven it any length of time to know if there are any issues in that respect that I haven't found yet. With that in mind, I acquired a set of 083 heads from another user of this forum & brought them home as insurance......just in case! Hopefully I won't need to put them into service right away & can spend this summer porting them!!!

Whichever scenario plays out, the heads have been sitting for quite some time & needed a pretty good clean up so that is what I've been doing. When I picked them up, they were what you would expect for 25+ year old heads.....rusty, oily, in need of some love.

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So I headed over to Rona, spent $23 & rigged myself up an electrolysis tank to clean these things up.

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A LOT of nasty stuff came off!!!

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24 hrs later after pulling the head out, hosing it off & drying it, I'm pretty pleased with the results!!

Now I have to get my ass out of my La-Z-Boy & go do the other one!!

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WP_20141213_007 by Shane Hewitt, on Flickr

Wow neat cheap tech trick,those heads look like new castings now

& the best part is it involved pretty much zero labour on my part!

Looks good. I was wondering if you could post up a list of the materials you bought and a how to for making that tank.

No problem!

All you need to do this process is,

1. A plastic container large enough to hold whatever you are wanting to clean.
2. A piece of sacrificial metal to place in the container (you can see the piece of sheet metal I picked up @ Rona for $6 in the back of the tank)
3. Baking Soda.....I got a box of Arm & Hammer @ Rona for $3.
4. A battery charger.
5. Water.

All you need to do is place your item in the tank & submerge it in water (ensure your part & the sacrificial metal are not touching!) Place the +ve from the battery charger on the sacrificial metal. Place the -ve on the part you are cleaning. Mix in some baking soda into the solution & plug in the charger (I used the 2A setting).......let chemistry take care of the rest! Go to bed, go to work....do whatever.

A couple of tips I figured out having done this a few times.

1. Use hot water. It does nothing for the process itself, but the baking soda mixes in the water much better & gets the process going quicker.

2. I didn't use any specific mixing ratio of baking soda to water. I dumped some in the water & plugged the charger in.....if it didn't start charging, I unplugged it, added some more soda & tried again.

3. Once you have successfully cleaned your part to your satisfaction, dry it quickly & be prepared to either put a thin film of oil on it or paint it very soon after as your part will begin to rust again very quickly afterwards.

I really like this process for several reasons.

1. No dust like my sandblast cabinet.
2. Doesn't damage the part in any way (although I'm told it will absolutely destroy aluminum & stainless)
3. You can't "over do it".....leaving it in too long will do nothing.
4. & most of all......NO LABOUR involved from me!!!

Thank you for the write up. I have read about this before but I found most people complicate their explanation of it. Yours is by far the best I have read. It makes it easy to set up. I will be doing some of this over the holidays before I break out the new powder coater Santa is bringing me lol

Great job so far and a very cool tech tip, going to have to try that somtime.

Well, head #1 has a light film of WD40 on it now to prevent it from rusting until I'm ready to either install or port these heads. Head #2 is in the tank & cooking currently.

While the 2nd head is cooking I decided to take a few minutes to pull out the factory Memcal & plug it into my APU1 & read the OE calibration off of it so I can have a browse around.

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Still feeling out the software & getting comfortable with the OBD1 process......WAY more demanding of the user than the OBDII tuning I do on a regular basis.

Everything worked as it should though, so now I have lots of tables to sift through in the evenings.

Awesome job!!

I love it!

Yes it is, yet I constantly get peeps that think its just a 5min job, lol

Well that seems to be one thing consistent between OBD1 & OBDII! Lol!