Of course, I manage to snap-off 3 of the intake bolts on the '84. Bought a set of heads off Ebay-$50 delivered. Got new gasket set-$65 delivered. Everything else came off without a hitch. Now, I have a set of heads to play around with, see what I can do to them.
Installing the EA-82 intake onto an EA-81 engine, isn't a simple bolt-on swap. Few mods have to be done to intake itself. There's a couple of bosses on the T-stat housing which needs to be removed, as they interfer with the vac unit on the disty. I even removed and plugged the water tube located there. Had to tweak the vac tube on the disty abit also. Things are tight in that area. Also, I had to bend-down the bracket that holds the tube off of the waterpump to heater hose, as it sits to high for the manifold to sit on engine properly.
This may be due to the Weber itself, but I had to pull the disty up, and re-clock it to the crank. Hoping I have it timed right, time will tell. This is due to part of the choke mechanism interfering with #4 plug tower on the cap. Now, I have to fab a bracket to hold disty clamp to the engine. Found this out after doing mods to manifold, as I had the disty cap off. Thinking the water tube could've stayed, but the bosses had to go anyways. Even the one lower down that holds the ambient air temp sensor, (on ones that have it), as it still would've interfered with the vac unit on disty.
Not done yet. Still need to bolt up Y-pipe. Need to get some replacement hose to re-do the small water hoses. Finish up the de-emmisioning of the engine. Got all of the block-off plates made, just need to put them on.
I had to cut my own gaskets to re-mount the Weber and adapters. I pulled the carb off the manifold, before I pulled manifold off EA-82 engine. A good thing I guess, seeing as how much I had to man-handle the manifold. Don't need no errant piece of junk mucking up the works in there.
Hoping to finish it up tonight after work. Update will follow....
