KSSS

http://shbox.com/1/accy_brkt.jpg

Here is a good pic....

slick1hunting

Mine is-was like yours ksss. My upper one is two arms like ace is reffering too but there is a second single arm that is coming from the head. If I get to my car and remember to look I will. I do know its four bolts on the alternator itself on mine.

KSSS

Ok, good. I wasn't crazy. That leads me back to original question......do u re-use this one bolt when putting headers on? I have arp bolts for the rest

slick1hunting

Im almost positive my ported heads have an extra hole there and I didnt need to put it on header. I did re-use the stock stud and nut and spacer in the second hole.

ACE1252

Wow, I've never seen that before on a 4th Gen F-body....good to know that it was not rigged up by somebody. Mine never had it at all.

KSSS

Oil Filters with Long Tube Headers - LS1TECH
Started reading about the oil cooler since i vaguely remembered an issue on it with longtubes. Im putting pacesetters on the car and plan on swapping my cooler to the newer motor. Anyone think I'll have an issue with the later style lt1 oil cooler and pacesetters? Finally to that point in my swap......

KSSS

decided to skip the oil cooler. still haven go get a new radiator hose to bypass the oil cooler. the motor mounts went in easy after i loosened the bracket-to-Kmember and the motor mount on the passenger side.



next, have to clean up my tranny and bolt it up.

should i bolt up my pacesetters and then lower the car onto the kmember or wait and install as im lowering the car?

RamAir95TA

Whenever I pull my motor I install the headers onto the engine first THEN lower the body back onto the car. Makes life so much easier. However I cannot speak for the Pacesetters ability to do the same thing since I have LPPs (which just barely fit inbetween the inner fenderwells when lowering the body).

KSSS

thanks......that's what I'll do.

I'll keep posting pics too. hopefully it'll help someone in the future. i know i couldn't have got this far without camaroz28.com and pics from others on here

KSSS

had to take my clutch/bell/pressure plate off again....my clutch must have somehow slipped while i was tightening up my pressure plate. after that was back on and i wrestled my tranny on(PITA), i started with the headers. did the passenger side only

only thing now is the bracket that hangs off the end of the tranny to support one side of the y-pipe doesn't line up with the pacesetter y.

i bent it some to get it closer, but i don't think it'll bolt up.......im moving on to the other side!

ACE1252

Hmmm, thats quite a bit off. Was it okay before? Did you rest the weight of the engine and tranny on the headers at some point?

Tired2

I'm late to this party, but here is my garage clearance shot:




Full album of swap pics if it helps:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1137637...956/CarPhotos#

KSSS

the headers are brand new. i think the bracket had the weight of the tranny on it while trying to wrestle it back on the motor. looking at it with better light this morning i can see the bracket was bent. hope i don't run into any problems when i lower the car back down on the motor

KSSS

the original catted y-pipe bolted right up. i guess i have to ask....has anyone else run into this problem? is it something my muffler shop will be able to rig when they connect my y-pipe to the catback, assuming it fits otherwise and doesn't interfere with the body? im probably gonna run it open header till i get to the shop and make sure its running ok after the swap

KSSS

had alittle time to get the other header on....


i believe its the drivers side part of the y-pipe that's tweeked, maybe the header little too. perhaps during shipping?


its not much. its just tubing, im sure the muffler shop can make it work