being without the internet for 1 month with my phone data being in the red i wasnt very active on the forum but here are some updates.
i got the smooties on the van, changed my rear taillight lense with one from my family supply ( my uncle and dad have a shitload of chevy van stuff stored at my grandpas, its like toy ''r'' us for chevy vanners)
put in a new air cleaner and racked up lots of mile in past few weeks plus i moved into a new appartment
heres the van at my old place

here at my new place

im on vacation for 2 weeks starting next friday, so il be putting work on the headers/ sidepipes
for now they are decorating my living room

cut ur weeds


and I need a side shot of the smoothies


and theres nothing wrong with parts in the house, my friends dad has a $15,000 coffee table because he has 15,000 dollars worth of Bonneville tires under a piece of glass lol

even from an angle the smoothies look like sex.

Ever since you've been talking about side pipes, the sides of the van have looked naked to me.

yea i cant wait for i have fully assembled them in my living room now, im missing 1 clamp to connect the chrome inlet pipe tu the J bend pipe so il be purchasing that this week. also need to talk my dad into doing it with me, cuz i dont have a drive way anymore and wont be doing that in the street lol.


that weed has turned into a tree i think its awesome, pretty sure it lived trough winter. il try taking side pics but my cell is taking shitier and shiter pics i guess the lense is all scrached

go drive it to a place where the background is nice and take some poser shots :-p

got some work done these past few days.
took the van to my dads, we backed it up on ramps then jacked the front end skyhigh, i could actually sit under the van in some sections.
pressure washed the engin*** afther letting it soak in degreaser, took out the old exhaust/manifolds. had to drain the coolant to get my water temp sensor wire out of the way, took the dipstick out, power steering braket had to be removed cuz it bolts to the manifold.

burned the protection paint of the headers in the fire cuz it was taking for ever to grind it off, painted them with 2 coats of silver paint
took of the valve covers grinded them down and painted them red, also painted the dipstick tube black and its bracket also black, with the tip of the stick red.
got some new spark plugs at the parts store and afther fitting the headers so easily shit hit the fan when it came time to put the spark plugs on the passenger side, we had to take the header out and ''massage'' it with the hammer and torch to allow us to fit the plug and its boot, also a brake line was to touching a tube so that got cleared out. So back to painting for that set of tubes but we got it all buttoned up and had the van running on open headers with the power steering pump hanging loosely... oups.

today we hooked up the side pipes witch was pretty strait forward, got a bit of issues with some of the slip fit pipes witch wouldn't slip over the other pipe... had 1 in the freezer and the other red hot and some hammer action going on.
did the cooking heat cycles for the header paint, realized one of the valve cover screws wasn't screwed when oil was dripping on the headers i was pissed but it was an ez fix.

also changed a hose that connects the hard vacuum line from the carburetor to the transmission witch was torn and i can feel the difference, very happy about this!

some eye candy, the van needs a thorough cleaning before i take nice pics.

here it is, the sound is great, not to loud but way better then my single 2 1/2 line i had haha.

Very nice man. Really ties it together with the wheels.

The shaggin wagon just got sexier