MattGuppy Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) This is going to be a super fast forward! I started working on the engine bay years before I started posting so I'll post everything I have up until right now and than continue to update it as I finish the work. I probably only have a few more months until the engine bay is show ready ! I unfortunately don't have any pics of the stock engine bay but most of us know what that looks like anyways. I found this pic online of a stock bay just for a starting point From there I really thought racing red wire loom looked great so I covered everything in it, it looked good and made the stock F150s I walked all over think it was the craziest truck on earth (oh how naive some of them were haha). I also starting painting some things the original color. The next significant change was the great fire of 2012! I was dumb back then and let someone install a stereo into my truck, they put the circuit breaker on top the fuse box and after a bit of spirited driving the connections grounded out on the brakes and started a small plastic fire. I completely lost brakes and E braked gently into some bushes by the pool house. Luckily I was a firefighter then and was just leaving the station so I called one of their personal phones and they showed up within two minutes. I had already extinguished by disconnecting battery and water that I had in truck but Im glad they showed none the less because loosing my truck is not an option. This is when I first started ditching stuff in the engine bay, I ripped out everything they had done and made a new stereo(another thread) and put my battery in my tool box From there I went through several alternators before I found one that could take the power from the stereo and inverters etc I was running. I had the black one replaced and fail twice on me when I decided to go big or go home and got a 400 amp monster from DC power. This alternator is perfect, great at idle etc and had it for years but it literally took 3 months (3 MONTHS!!!!) for them to ship it to me, everyone here can understand my frustration and how many times their tracking page was pinged by me those months. These are a few pics of how the engine sat for awhile, I kept it much cleaner than in this pic and was very happy with it for several years while I was working on other aspects of the truck Sand blasted and powder coated nearly every metal part in the truck, including core support Next I started painting engine and interior parts while prepping the truck for paint. I sand blasted everything and than used a thick self etching primer to take the fake texture out of everything, did some bondo where needed than laid some SEM sandal primer on top to get the paint really flat and shine, and from there went into the 3 stage paint and did a matte clear. .... okay well I guess I need someone else to reply to this so that I can post up the other half of the post, it says I did too many pictures which is weird because I host my own pics but whatever someone give me a spacer or something and I'll paste the rest of the post back in you know you want too..... there is some really good stuff coming.... thanks in advance !! Edited February 14, 2015 by FatherSonSS (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70chevy03ss Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Wow. You have a vision and it's looking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcapone Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Holy hackers Batman! Edited February 14, 2015 by L8ERBRO (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC03SS Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Alt looks great but the rest of the engine bay mmmmm not so much. All the red looms need to go looks kinda like an old farm truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGuppy Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Somewhere in there the hood and fenders got LineX, I plan to do the entire firewall when I pull the motor. Got rid of the stock manifolds and EGR for some wrapped headers. I had to cut out and braze the hole for the EGR which sucks because I had to redo the ceramic coating completely, I couldn't just re coat the one spot .... but stupid murphy caught up with me and I broke 2 of these suckers in the process I broke the very front drivers side, for that one I just took wheel off and drilled it right out, but I also had a worst case scenario happen... I broke the rear drivers side the one tucked way in the firewall curve. I ended up un-bolting the motor and sprinkling a little magic on everything and got that one out but it took about 6 hours to do and was probably the second worst thing I've ever done to the truck (second only to the exhaust wrap fiberglass hell I put a good friend and myself through) Edited February 14, 2015 by FatherSonSS (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGuppy Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 After that I went into the ECM/Fuse Box/Coil relocation, theres a whole other thread on that process Got rid of these guys and was left with this Stuffed the cruise control, alarms, horns, and a couple other things into the wiper cowl How the fire wall used to look with all the junk and my way too big master cylinder hole SS headlight buckets Coating the frame Old valve covers VS new ones. This literally took 12 minutes including the new temporary plumbing And this is where I'm at now. I still have a lot I plan on doing like all new stainless plumbing, new radiators, new M/C, E fans, I'm gunna weld up a aluminum coolant can and catch cans, some wheel tubs, than several other little things to finish everything up I'll make sure to post as I go for the rest of it -Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGuppy Posted February 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Alt looks great but the rest of the engine bay mmmmm not so much. All the red looms need to go looks kinda like an old farm truck. You and I think alike, where were you when I was putting all that loom on !? Could have used that opinion then haha -Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muggs Posted February 14, 2015 Report Share Posted February 14, 2015 Got it looking good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSStar Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Love the valve covers!!! where can iget a set? are they direct bolt on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsanders347 Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 I'm liking the valve covers as well. Where did you get them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGuppy Posted February 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Love the valve covers!!! where can iget a set? are they direct bolt on? Thank you ! I got them from ProFormParts, they have several different styles check them out at the bottom of this page https://www.proformparts.com/category-exec/category_id/247/nm/GM_Performance_Parts/page_num/1 Like most true gear head sites its kind of weird to navigate but though those 7 pages there are several covers that work on our trucks They bolt right on for the most part, they are much taller to accommodate for bigger stuff under there, so you have to check clearances but for us we should be good. You'll need a bolt kit but almost all of them come with it. You'll need to relocate your coil packs obviously. There are a hundred different ways to do this of varying difficulties you could go extreme like I did or some people just bring them higher up into the intake. And lastly you'll need to do a little minor plumbing. This is a great time to do a catch can if you can, if not any in-line PCV valve will work. -Matt Edited February 16, 2015 by FatherSonSS (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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