Sorry for the crappy pics... but it was dark out by the time we finished up.... and I already got black finger prints on the brand new coolant and washer resevoir..








The engine bay paint and soon to be body paint is PPG sunset red (3 stage candy)

 

kinda off the motor subject but what wheels are those?

 

Boyd Codding Magneatos... 17X8 front and 17X10 rear

I will post some more pics of the wheels when the rest of the car gets painted.

 

Nice man...real nice. I hope that T5 is built up

 

Nope... it's WC... mcleod billet flywheel and centerforce Dual Friction...

After the T5 blows chunks I'm going to be bolting a tremec T56 thirdgen retrofit to the T5 bellhousing.

 

*** that looks good.

I see trophies in the future.

 

lookin good man...lovin the motor..and the paint is nice..really nice..whats it runnin ya to have that done? gotta be somewhere around what i paid for mine...

hope to see you at some of the gatherings this year with that car..

iroc2nv

 

My dad and I are doing all the work ourselves, so the only expenses are materials... We are trying to do everything for under 10 grand.

 

Wow, very nice. That color is going to look outstanding when it's done, and something tells me it will perform like it looks...

Did you fab your heater motor box or is it from something else?

Keep us "posted" (very punny!)

Troy
So Cal

 

I went through over 50 thirdgens at boneyards before I found that heater box... I couldn't believe how many were rusted out!

This was the best one I could find... but the morons that pulled it ripped off one of the corners because they couldn't get a bolt out... there was also some rust on the bottom edge, so I cut off all the edges and welded on new metal... then gave it the 3 stage PPG sunset red treatment.

 

thats really good man...under 10 grand for a candy paint job..sweet..i wish i had the ability and materials to do paint myself..cuz then i wouldnt have paid $6000 for my paint job...and mine is only 7 stage pearl..

good job either way man

iroc2nv

 

Humm, where have I seen these pics before

 

very nice!

 

lol rule #1

 

I meant 10 grand for the whole car.. including engine, paint, wheels, tires, roll cage, SFCs, relocation brackets, struts/shocks, springs... etc.

 

Great color. The engine bay looks real clean. Would love to see pictures of the finished product.

 

hawks, wc t5 lasted most of last summer on an afr aluminum head 383, last time at sparta it started jamming, he drove it home in 5th only, he only ran slicks a couple times but then the clutch slipped launching, i think the t5 will be the first part to let go, or an axle if your launching it with slicks and stock rear...i would love to runa 700 with my 615 big block but i know it won't take it so im going t400. that is some nice clean looking engine bay and motor though...check out the t5 upgrades.... would suck to just get it out and have it break...car looks great though...

 

Whats the displacment of that beast? As John said, my T-5 made it the summer at least

(edit*) lmao, I just read the title now thats what I get for jumping on a link sent over MSN )

Got disc rears, or the eliminator kit? H8 to see ya race your rear tire down the track after so much work done to it, looks sweet

There is some nice T-5 kits that cost alot less then the t-56 swap and are stronger, but then you cant brag to friends you got a 6-Speed

 

well he said its a 383/t5 combo so that motor is 383 cubic inches of displacement.

i have to say awesome job again man. i originally started out with a under 5 grand motor plan but i am seriously deciding on some of the parts i have chosen. you have any specs on the motor/

 

Yeah... I was there when his T5 ate it... and for the record I believe that was the NON WC version. Are you the guy with the black 2nd gen? That thing was seriously hard core!

As for the rear... It's a Borg Warner 9-bolt disc rear end with 3.27 gears.

I will upgrade parts as they go.


As for the engine internals... I'm going to keep it a secret for now... but it is 11.5:1 CR.

 

Ya I already got that

See

Nope it "was" a W/C tranny.

Ya Louich is the guy that was there with the 10 sec 2nd gen Formula that smoked his Stall

Thats close to the compression that I'll be running this year, gave up on the 9:1, It'll be too long till I get the charger, as in like 3 years.

 

yep, that was the old beast...i will run it again likely next year, hard to do 2 projects at once....heck its hard to do 1

 

sweet... what is the other project?

 

the one for this summer is a 615 merlin big block with some monster aluminum heads, 400 trans and 35 spline 9 inch for my street car
oh ya. its going into an 86 camaro...

here are some links to see the old girl going, the sparta one was about 4 runs before stall blew out of it...

http://videos.kwfbody.com/Louich%20runs%2010_9.avi

http://videos.kwfbody.com/JohnvsThomas.avi

http://videos.kwfbody.com/Louich%20d...0at%20450+.avi

 

Good video's, if the KWF server ever stays stable enuf to watch them,

 

just wondering about the aluminum spacers on the struts. Is that for lowering or something? Looks interesting.

 

I assume he has lowering springs, and when you do that the struts travel is decreased. With that plate, the strut can compress and rebound the amount it was designed for. Or something like that.

 

Im pretty sure that those plates are exactly as you said to allow the strut to have the correct travel. But if you look a little closer you will also see that they have adjusters on the side of them so that caster and camber can be adjusted for different driving situations.

A couple of close ups to see the details



Ric