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  1. Vonbarron

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    Fun last couple of days, noticed a stronger gas smell in the garage, checked the bikes. Nope, look under the Ferrari and yes, there's a visible drip right where the xpipe is. Decided to deal with it another day and pushed it outside. Jacked it up and see it's coming from clamp vicinity on the tube. The car is almost out of fuel so let's drain, so yeah my 3 gallon bucket was about 2 gallons to small, fuel everywhere in the gravel, I'm a man so I forge ahead, got it drained, unclamped and yanked the tube out, turns out the holding clamp wasn't the trouble, it was the years of it rubbing on the water pipe 90. There's very little room here
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    Prepped it for welding, made a patch for ease of welding, decided to wire feed rather than tig and blow holes thru contaminated aluminum
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    Buzz buzz, check for pin holes (yes) grind, buzz, recheck and we're golden. Reassembled with the addition of some fuel hose to help alleviate any rubbing that could happen in the future. This is definitely an area that all of you should check if your cars up in the air
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    And done, for those of you following along, there's no horsepower increase with this fix just amazing gas mileage, on par with one of those soulless electric nothings some people identify with
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    Nice tips.
     
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    Welcome back, man!
    I assumed you were dead. My #prayforvonbarron has been trending on Twitter
     
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    Ok so intake was easy to remove, of course every hose under it is rotting and sweating oil and water, figures, it’s a dirty pig mess. Now what I don’t get is the old damage to the intake mating surfaces on the heads, it’s like it was beat with a hammer and the hit with screwdrivers on end, there’s pronounced aluminum raised up and beat down on edges. I can’t fathom what why where who would do this let alone reassemble without smoothing this stuff
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    Another sucky part is I can see some leaky valve guides, three or four valves are pretty oiled and grimy, I’m not ready to yank heads and fix those, maybe in a couple years, doesn’t smoke. For a 60k mile car it looks like it was Magnums stunt driver. Ordered all new gaskets, I’ll get it squared away so it’s pretty next time I go in deep
     
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    I think you'll find you can fit your Formula Junior back there
     
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    One more thing to complain about, 7 injectors are steel and one is brass, their beat too. Luckily Uncle Ettore’s ol’ Fashioned injector service came thru over a year ago with the super kit (30 horse at least) also code name: SeattleM5
     
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    Wait a minute, you're only now getting around to putting those injectors in? I'm so disappointed!

    Let me know if you need any help with that car of yours. A good friend of mine game me this amazing knife, we should be able to cut those old hoses right off [emoji2]

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    You can’t just rush in and switch out injectors, you need to think about life n stuff, oh look! A butterfly!
     
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    I'd be leery of the longevity of the zip tie holding on that rubber sleeve.
     
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    Is... is that RTV around one of the injection mounts??
     
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    It sure is, I’m sure it worked great as a topical solution
     
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    Getting deeper, inspect, investigation, figured out what the weird marks on the heads are from, it’s clear now that someone used a pry bar to try and remove plenum and intake runners as a unit not realizing it’s on an angled plane, more silicone found sealing water pipe mating surfaces, decide to dye and file it, way way off, rechecked runners too, not even close to flat, no wonder gaskets walked away. It’s fun finding this stuff, the horsepower increases may bring me into 1997
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    Neddy the Neanderthal mekanik wuz here wif chizzle und hammer.
     
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    Pry bar? Should find this former hack mechanic and put bruises all over him with a similar pry bar.
     
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