beach

hi, i have a 89gt and have just taken the manifold of for painting, i have taken it for shot blasting and they wanted the butterfly to be taken out. so my question is how do you get it out? i tried to undo the 2 screws but they wont move. i have new bearing to go back in so does this butterfly have to come out to do this?

LostInSpace

Have a look here....

http://members.rennlist.com/pirtle/svc.html

You may want to leave the old bearings inplace whilst the mainfold is painted in order to keep the bearing surfaces on the manifold nice and clean.

beach

hi, thanks for that. got it out now myself! i watch this bloke try and undo the 2 screws with all his might and no go, so brought it back home to try myself and it undone easy, should of tried when i was there! i will leave bearings in until powder coated but i gather they are a pain to get out.cheers

LostInSpace

The other bloke must have loosened them for you

Would be interested to know who's going to do the powdercoating and what's the cost?

beach

i reckon he did, anyway as to cost .I took it back down today and it has taken them nearly 2 hours to shot blast and also chemically strip of old coating it was a pig to do, so they say! £45 cash job for that, its now at powder coaters and they said about £20-30 hope to get it back monday.

LostInSpace

look forward to seeing the results - what colour are you going for?

beach

its like a silver/grey not sure what its called, trouble is i will have to do cam covers after, more money!

Mrmerlin

its a good idea to paint/powder coat the cam and intake at the same time so they will match

LostInSpace

Beach - Pic of the flappy installed - the butterfly edges should be pretty close to the manifold.....

beach

thanks mate, that's great