Hey guys. I'm in the process of putting in newly refurbished valve covers and plenum. As such I'm pretty much down to the heads and have the fuel rail out. I have all new gaskets and new fuel injector o-rings to go back in when I can start getting it back together.
One of the things that I am doing while I'm in there is trying to clean up / subtly modify things to make the engine bay a little bit prettier. Nothing major, I am just re-routing some of the vacuum lines and likely re-building them out of some metal tubing bcause one of my plastic ones at the EGR solenoid shattered when I was trying to remove it. I am also deleting the hard coolant lines to the throttle body to reduce some clutter.
This is a spring/summer/fall only car and I have read on PFF of some people deleting the cold start injector. I don't know that anything is wrong with mine, but after doing this job I don't want to have to take it apart again for a long time. Has anyone here in our region deleted the cold start injector? What impact has it had (if any)? I haven't decided either way, but I need to decide before the weekend if I'm going to plug it up and remove it or re-connect it.
I'm just thinking if I don't
really need it then now is the time to pull it out, have a little less clutter in there and one less thing to go wrong further down the road.
My mind isn't made up either way so I'm very much open to any and all opinions.
For some eye interest, here's where I'm at right now.
Boring pic I know... the valve covers are just sitting there unbolted and covering things up for now. I've never been this deep into an engine myself so this is a fun learning experience. Only the EGR valve, distributor cap/rotor and plugs are left to come out before it starts getting put back together.
I've been collecting parts for 6 months and the engine bay is getting refinished valve covers and 88 engraved plenum, new holley red cap/rotor, red street fire coil, blue (what I could get cheap on kijiji
) taylor spiro pro wires, NGK plugs, new exhaust crossover heat shield and a good general cleaning for everything else. I'm also trying to find one of those plastic covers for the EGR valve to try and stop it from being so ugly if someone has a spare kicking around I'm interested in talking to you. I've visited my local pick and pull 4 or 5 times already with no success at finding one.
I would also be interested in a set of poly dog bone bushings if someone has a set they're not using. Colour doesn't matter.
I'm hoping the tune up takes care of a stumble I was having at low-ish rpm cruising and teh funny acting tach that went with it.
Thanks in advance for any input.