LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Some more progress on the little finishing bits, make a stainless heat shield for the trans pump, got it all plumbed up and installed..

90 degree -3AN fitting to clear the trans tunnel...

The heat shield is stood off 1/4" from the plastic end cap fan shroud, and is 1/2" off the metal motor body. The pump fan sucks air in from the grilled end cap and blows air across the outside of the motor body, so I had to stand the heat shield off and not just put heat shield tape on the motor body itself...

Welded up some of the exhaust tailpipe bits at work.. I"m trying to weld as much of the piping as possible before the final trim cut, instead of cutting and tack welding the tailpipe entirely from the muffler to the bumper, and then fully welding the entire tailpipe and risking unnecessary warpage.

Man these things are big...

Also wrapped up the radiator/fan assembly. Glued/gasketed in the high-temp foam seal on the underside of the the fan shroud...

Pretty tight seal all the way around the shroud...

The last step was to wire up the fans to an existing Deutsch 4-pin plug that I already had wired to the fan relay setup.

I'm liking these Deutsch connectors more and more, so quick to bang out the crimps on them.

I wanted there to be a sub-harness between the individual fans and the single 4-pin connector on the chassis side, in case I needed to replace a single fan without having to remove both fans at once, or climb under the car and somehow de-pin one fan's wires if it shared a 4-pin connector with the other fan...

Ready to install for good!