Thought I'd post a few pics of my new re-vamped engine bay: Crawford polished plenum, Crawford strut support, black Samco hoses & Pi-thon compression clamps, CF air finisher (painted by ZPRESENCE on 350frenzy.com) & cut engine cover for Crawford plenum (also painted by ZPRESENCE).

About the Samco hoses & Pi-thon clamp combination: due to the thicker walls of the Sanco hoses (making their O.D. larger), I would recommend either doing the Samco hoses with stock clamps or the Pi-thon clamps with the stock hoses - the hoses were a b**ch to get in the clamps and a BIGGER b**ch to then get over the fittings - took over 4 hours for 3 water hoses - yikes!! If I was doing it again I'd go with the Pi-thon clamps on the stock hoses, for sure!!

Anyway, a few pics....1st, a couple Pi-thons and a Samco......

 

with cut engine cover........

 

without cover..........

 

without cover...........

 

Special thanks for Doug & his crew @ Crawford's, to ZPRESENCE for his painting shills, & the phatmitzu for the CF finisher.... and to by mechanic buddy, of course, who helped today with the hoses & clamps!

 

Looks great Jack!

See you next weekend at Z ATTACK!

 

Look forward to seeing you all again next weekend - gonna be a blast!

 

Looks awesome either way, as they say here "it's off the chain!"

That means it looks good , us California folks speak a different language. I think it's the stress and the bad air.

 

i like it without the cover

 

Nice Sig Randy!!!!

btw... your Z does some INCREDIBLE donuts..

 

btw... your Z does some INCREDIBLE donuts


What? Huh? Donuts?

 

Where or how did you get that engine cover cut?
Looking to do the same thing......

 

Cut the engine cover on a bandsaw & finished with my Dremel. Held the cover on an uninstalled Crawford plenum, drew a line on the under side of the cover around the plenum, backed off 1" from the line and started cutting. Did a bit at a time, re-checked, cut a little more, etc. until it fit. Then installed the plenum & strut support, set the cover on the strut bar to see where to cut the sides of the cover for the bar to fit under. Did it again a little at a time until it fit. After fitting, filled in the back of the cover where the remaining "V6" & "3.5" were with epoxy so my paint-guy could shave off V6 & 3.5 & paint.

After all that, I like it better without the cover - ha!

 

purty!!

 

Oh wow...and I thought my engine bay looks good...

Very nice

 

looks good

 

Looks great, definately keep the engine cover off. Why hide all that mechanical beauty.

 

Your engine has the chicken pox!!

Looks good w/o the cover. Good job.

 

I was thinking the same thing - Ha! - it does look better in person. The red bolt caps in the photos for some reason tend to overwhelm the bay in the photos??!! I still may change the caps on the front of the engine to chrome caps. I'll see how that looks.

 

Does it stay on without the strut bar there? I want to get the Crawford plenum but want to keep the engine cover on it and the strut bar would be a JIC Carbon Fiber strut bar. Anyone at Crawford know if it would clear the plenum???