How do I remove this?

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My Brenspeed B326 is supposed to ship this week. In the meantime, I continue to tear down the engine bay in preparation for the swap.

Before I break something, how does the pictured item get removed from the block? It's the inlet for the water pump. Do I just take a hammer and wack it forward?

I am assuming the B326 won't have one and I'll have to transition this over ....

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I believe MMR makes some kind of screw in piece to replace this leak prone fitting. If so, they could advise on how to remove. Brenspeed should beable to help you out on that question if MMR cant
 

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I saw that. I was hesitant because you still need to put an AN fitting on a heater hose, then run that hose to the heater core hose and connect via a heater hose connector . . . all of which raise the same leak risk in my mind.

Unless you could get rid of that heater core hose entirely and feed directly in? So, essentially get rid of the top heater core line in this picture and run directly from the MMR fitting to the firewall?

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I saw that. I was hesitant because you still need to put an AN fitting on a heater hose, then run that hose to the heater core hose and connect via a heater hose connector . . . all of which raise the same leak risk in my mind.

Unless you could get rid of that heater core hose entirely and feed directly in? So, essentially get rid of the top heater core line in this picture and run directly from the MMR fitting to the firewall?

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I’ve been fortunate and never had a leak issue here. I also run the DOB manifold and it’s been awhile, but I’m pretty sure those heater hoses are reconfigured from stock routing. What did you ever do on your camshafts?
 

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I’ve been fortunate and never had a leak issue here. I also run the DOB manifold and it’s been awhile, but I’m pretty sure those heater hoses are reconfigured from stock routing. What did you ever do on your camshafts?

Yea, I sent Jason an email and asked if those lines were cut up or cut off. Haven't heard back yet. For the KB that was there, the hard line to the crossover was cut away in lieu of a regular heater hose. Only the hard line to the water pump was lift in place.

I ended up going with the 127450 with the comp cam limiters. After lots of back and forth between Brenspeed, this forum, Lito, and DOB ..... everyone had a different opinion. So, I went with the opinion of the guys who have been building this engine for years.
 

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Yea, I sent Jason an email and asked if those lines were cut up or cut off. Haven't heard back yet. For the KB that was there, the hard line to the crossover was cut away in lieu of a regular heater hose. Only the hard line to the water pump was lift in place.

I ended up going with the 127450 with the comp cam limiters. After lots of back and forth between Brenspeed, this forum, Lito, and DOB ..... everyone had a different opinion. So, I went with the opinion of the guys who have been building this engine for years.

2 weeks ago I removed my 127500 cams and Livernois limiters. The livernois limiters were all deformed from slamming back and forth inside the phasers and the little spring that goes between them had been destroyed and was nowhere to be found(hopefully in the oil filter LOL!!) I put the 127400 cams I had on the shelf back in and Comp limiters and am loving it! Kept the same tune, no more cam buck putting thru parking lots, Tires lightup on command (amazing what a little less duration does for low rpm response), alot nicer take off from dead stop, hell, can just let the clutch out easy from 800 rpm with no throttle to get it moving. Maybe my issues were in my tune with the 500's ? IDK. I spent over $1000 screwing around with the tune and just gave up on it
 

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2 weeks ago I removed my 127500 cams and Livernois limiters. The livernois limiters were all deformed from slamming back and forth inside the phasers and the little spring that goes between them had been destroyed and was nowhere to be found(hopefully in the oil filter LOL!!) I put the 127400 cams I had on the shelf back in and Comp limiters and am loving it! Kept the same tune, no more cam buck putting thru parking lots, Tires lightup on command (amazing what a little less duration does for low rpm response), alot nicer take off from dead stop, hell, can just let the clutch out easy from 800 rpm with no throttle to get it moving. Maybe my issues were in my tune with the 500's ? IDK. I spent over $1000 screwing around with the tune and just gave up on it

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