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started test fitting parts

 

Looking good!

 

Thanks...lot more bling on the car its self...lol..this is without the vortech V1Ttrim. Cog drive on it..seen in the back ground. on the floor. and the nitrous plate hasn't been put on yet.

 

You have to much time and money on your hands.But that is one sweet looking motor.Adding the blower is going to make for an insane motor.Keep up the good work,Steve

 

what to start on first......



I started this project almost 5 years ago.. have been buying parts and stashings stuff away...for all that time...close to the end now...and nothing was used from the last eng...or GM. for that matter...in that time came the blower the nitrous the bigger fuel injection system. And now the programmable computer system...bigger and better parts for the transmission. even before this engine is bolted together I changed the intake set up twice. starting up with this pulley system and then once that's tune switching over to the blower and its pulley system... the other night when I was test fitting parts. it's like Christmas opening boxes looking for boxes of parts I bought years ago...stumblin across parts I forgot all about.....its nice to have a shop just for the car..ill have to make a dump run to get rid of the empty boxes soon...

 

That is just Bad ***! Looks fricken awesome! Can't wait to get that far with mine.

 

I'm having a challenge just putting money away for a new engine build. Hopefully by the end of this summer, I'll have made some real progress. I plan to be ready to move on the build in two years.

Fortunately, I did a major redo on the car with aftermarket programmable EFI and alot of really great upgrades back in 1999-2000. That was only 35,000 miles ago and everything is still in great shape.

Since then I've installed excellent new brakes from Fly-N-Bye and last year I built what I think is a pretty bullet proof transmission with the help of Dana and Probuilt Automatics.

The engine I built in 99 is a good solid motor, it made nice showing at the track last fall for a little TPI 350, making easy work of a line of well built muscle cars and an LS1 Vette, twice in a row. It's just time for an upgrade. Plus, I did cut corners, using a budget rotating assembly and the factory block. It still runs strong, thanks in large part to Archie Somers' excellent machine work and ARP studs throughout, but it will never be the motor I really want it to be.

Of course I say this now. I actually haven't got the Beasty out of the garage for the summer yet. Waiting for consistently good weather. When I do, I'm sure it will excite me again like it does every spring. Still, I want it to be faster.

I don't have anything as wild as your V1 blown 427 in mind. Just a solid 500+ hp(maybe 540ish?) 406, really well put together from a Dart block and forged internals strong enough to handle much more(in case I decide to get more serious in the future). Along with precision machining by my friend Archie to be sure it all lasts a good long time.

I mean it's only money right? By the time I'm done, including all the work up to now, I'll have close to 50K invested in this car. For the performance value it will have, compared to that of a new car, and the shear joy of driving something I built with my own hands, it's a bargain. Just try to convince my wife of that.

 

very nice !
what intake manifold are you using ?

 

I know... right. Seems I have all the fun shopping..then when it comes to putting it together there's no motivation.this redo project what started 5 years ago..

As for what intake...this is the 2nd one I picked out for this build. the first one is the Accel program..but in the last month Racing head service came out with a EFI single plane intake...
got a steal of a deal on this polished one and fuel rails $400..at that time the program changed. and it went from cast aluminum finish to all chrome and polish. So now the accel intake sits in its box.