If you have no fuel at the schrader valve, then it is not the injectors.
Do you have a fuel rail pressure gauge? Are you building pressure? I know you said the pumps prime, How many times have you cycled the key to prime the pumps? You might need to do this a bunch of times to fill the lines...
I use 0000 SS wool with metal polish every year. After 3-4 years it needs a real polish again. I use a 6” buffing wheel on an angle grinder. Takes all the hard labor out of it. I think over the past 10-12 years, I’ve only sanded with 1000 grit and up once since the initial polish.
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Buy generic cats from summit and put them in the Bassani X. Get ones close to the same length as the flow tubes in the X pipe now. Cut the new cat to length and be done with it. Can easily be reverted back to current status if you don’t like it.
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Pump oil in through the oil cooler. There is an 1/8 npt plug you can remove and hook up a hand pump, I’d recommend pumping in 1/2 quart of oil to make sure it gets up to the heads.
I’d leave it all connected when firing it up. Less things to be an issue.
You need to run either dual FPDM’s (1 per GT pump) or an upgraded FPDM.
I was making 620 with upgraded GT pumps, no BAP before upgrading to return style.
I just pulled a dual FPDM harness out of my brothers car that was running GT pumps for years.
HAHAHAHA. So much room for activities.
Good news, it already has a tubular K member, so its not the end of the world. It is more about how long to get said headers. I'd probably do Bassani Mid-lengths if I could find them. He has a Bassani X pipe so it would be the most cost effective way to...
Finished the install of the return fuel system in my brothers car today. Still need to finish the EGR delete, but ran into a little issue with getting the fitting out of the manifold. I hope it’s not going to turn into a header swap too.
Need to get the correct belt for it and then time for the...
Got my car inspected today. She’s quote unquote legal now. Few younger guys at the garage checking out the car. Never seen a real terminator before. They were impressed.
23k is going be hard with missing the engine and trans starting at 10k. You are minimum 5k for a short block. 2-4k for heads, $2500-4000 for a trans, DS, clutch, bell housing and maybe a shifter, cable and harness too.
Then all the missing miscellaneous stuff… cross over, pulley bridge...