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Thanks
James From
Kanter Auto Products

Looks great, nice work!

Thank you for the kind words. The driver side manifold is cracked on the 400. I took sometime this week on my breaks and was able to find a nice used exhaust manifold. Here is the manifold as I found it.
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Here it is after a good degreasing and glass beading. Next I will acid etch it to get rid of the remaining rust and paint with high temp paint.

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Thanks
James From
Kanter Auto Products

Got the exhaust manifold acid etched and painted, ready to be put back on.
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Here is a picture fo the BTV unit. I have not had a chance to put it in the car yet. At work we have a machine to test the vaccum section as well as the hydraulic section. The unit tested out great.
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Unfortunately since I bought the 400 I did not have any room in the garage so it has had to sit in the driveway on the trailer. Over this past weekend I was able to talk my father into letting move one of my other cars to his house. The deal was I had to clean his garage so I couldn't pass it up. The hardest part was getting the 400 off the trailer and into the garage without any brakes, but I talked my pregnant wife to man the wheel of the 400 and she did a great job.

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