Vented the Opti today.
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Drifting
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From: Olathe, KS USA
Vented the Opti today.
Upgraded my Opti-spark as-per the Corvette Fever Tip http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/16758 using the GM vacuum harness # 12558921.
The toughest part was getting the plastic "Y" sealed up to the plastic Opti cap, the 10$ soldering iron I bought got a workout. I wanted to make sure it was sealed, so holding my finger over the end of the "Y" I would fill the cap up with water, finally after about 6 tries I got it to hold water, no drips :hurray: .
This Opti has about 9k miles on it and the seal was already cracked at the bottom :banghead: , so I replaced them with (sensor safe) RTV.
Here are a couple of pictures of the finished product. http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/phot...optivent01.JPG
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/phot...optivent02.JPG
I also got some other stuff done to, oil pan, timing cover, chain and gears, all of the exhaust system and the starter removed.
Oh yea, :eek:Surprise # 1 it seems as though I have a bad valve stem seal on # 1 exhaust, I noticed the port was all oily after I removed the manifold. All the rest of the ports are dry.
Replacing it should be no problem as I got pretty good at it when the LT4 springs went on. :thumbs:
[Modified by C4Crazy787, 10:33 AM 2/22/2004]
The toughest part was getting the plastic "Y" sealed up to the plastic Opti cap, the 10$ soldering iron I bought got a workout. I wanted to make sure it was sealed, so holding my finger over the end of the "Y" I would fill the cap up with water, finally after about 6 tries I got it to hold water, no drips :hurray: .
This Opti has about 9k miles on it and the seal was already cracked at the bottom :banghead: , so I replaced them with (sensor safe) RTV.
Here are a couple of pictures of the finished product. http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/phot...optivent01.JPG
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/phot...optivent02.JPG
I also got some other stuff done to, oil pan, timing cover, chain and gears, all of the exhaust system and the starter removed.
Oh yea, :eek:Surprise # 1 it seems as though I have a bad valve stem seal on # 1 exhaust, I noticed the port was all oily after I removed the manifold. All the rest of the ports are dry.
Replacing it should be no problem as I got pretty good at it when the LT4 springs went on. :thumbs:
[Modified by C4Crazy787, 10:33 AM 2/22/2004]
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Drifting
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: Olathe, KS USA
Re: Vented the Opti today. (DieL)
I upgraded to a 95 style but dont know where to hook up the vaccum lines... where to ??????
Also check this Corvette Fever Tip http://www.corvettefever.com/howto/16758
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