I envy anyone that has the luxury to sandblast anything they want to paint, because this took some time. I can't shake throwing some fresh paint at it, seems wrong after having gutted the old heart. Ideally ide like to find a high temp self etching primer, then paint.
I also got my broken bolt out of the harmonic balancer. Cranked the welder WAY too high and burned a nut on. Little bugger came out nicely, but I almost messed that up good. I wish the exhaust bolt was going to be as easy. It's sunk in and I don't want to risk welding a nut to the threads of the hole. Probably having a friend come over and help drill/ easy out this guy with one of the fluted type, not that spiral garbage.
This might sound idiotic, though after the success with the hb bolt, I started wondering if anything could be done to make a barrier around the stud hole as to not let weld grab the edges and only allowing it to fill up and into a nut for removal. Does anything like that exist?
My brain went to ceramic material, but making this would likely take far longer than drilling it out and such.
The project continues:
. Fix broken stud
. Paint
. Throw all the new crap on
. Install some day
Lastly it looks like my CPS is completely different than what 93 used. I assume I just need to slap my 99 distributor on and I'll be gtg?