I got the Flowmaster 50 done and cats deleted. The muffler shop wasn't exactly clear (or perhaps they were intentionally misleading) when providing the quote. Came in 25% over what was quoted.
Anyway, I had a leak that I thought was thermostat housing since I had just done the tstat. But I had the stupid rad petcock that takes a 1/4" drive and was stripped, so I pulled my fan, rad shroud and lifted the rad in order to replace the rad petcock. Turns out the leak was the upper rad hose just above the tstat housing. So I resealed the tstat housing and cut an inch off that rad hose. Replaced everything. Added coolant. It got hot while running it, so I shut it down to try to burp some air out of the system better.
Well I looked under the hood and the little fitting in the intake manifold for the heater hose was bubbling. Wiggled it and it broke right off at the threads. ****! Its that cheap pot metal garbage. So I chipped some of it off but it wouldn't break loose from the threads so I tried to use a screw extractor... Broke the f'n intake manifold. Small crack, repairable, but not without pulling the intake. Shiet!
Nothing else to update. I put plates on my 98 again. I haven't really been happy with the 454 so far. Its such a dog. I am considering a mild build on the 454 or building and swapping in a ~450hp LQ4.
Here is one from just before the exhaust job.
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I will probably swap hitches. The one on my 98 is so much more hidden.
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