put a new intake on today. it's not drawing cold air yet, but it gets better flow than the stock box was. after the roundup i'll probably cut a hole where the box was and run the intake down towards the front wheel.

started working on filling in the body lines where the back bumper meets the quarter panel. not perfect yet but it will be soon! after that i plan on doing the front bumper as well.

i dont know why the pictures are sideways, they were straight when i uploaded them

 

Lets see some pics. I did the same thing on mine awhile ago still not really sure if I like it. The K&N does go up in the fender.

 

looks real good

 

Not a good idea on the filling in the bumper lines. Our cars are made to flex and having two dissimilar materials joined together with filler is probably going to crack ect.
Cool car BTW!!!

 

Well i'm gonna wait a while on the paint anyway. So if the filler starts to crack then i'll take it all off

 

Here's a little project I did with a small lathe i bought. Basically just cut the bottom of the strut mount to remove the stock rubber surrounded bearing, turned a cup with a c-clip groove to fit the spherical bearing into, cut a plate to fill the hole, and welded it together. There is an adapter/safty washer under the spherical so I could use a standard .75 wide body spherical bearing and still be a close fit the metric strut top. The washer should be large enough to keep the strut top from hitting the hood if the press fit and c-clip fail.

I haven't measured caster, but I've got about another degree of negative camber of with this and no more crappy rubber bushings to deflect. Probably $50 is materials and way too much time, but it was more of just something to justify the purchase of the tools required...

 

what bearing are you using?

 

Im gonna upload a picture of my pvc rollcage...just kidding had somebody ask if that was a good idea to save weight but still have a roll cage.

 

Hey man i LOVE your car. What kind of rims you got on that sucker?

 

Pretty sure they're 1995 Mustang Cobra R wheels. Guess he found them in a GM pattern or is using an adapter.



Speaking of that, since it's either them or a really super close style, I want to run a Mustang wheel on my IROC. Mustang FR500 wheels. I run black 18" FR500s on my '01 GT and love them.



That same look, except for a silver wheel, would look really awesome if I ever get around to painting the IROC black. Kind of like a C5 Z06 wheel just a little cleaner IMO. Mustang wheels for the win.

 

twin turbo, tube chassis street car

 

I have the ford FR500 17x10.5" rear rims on my 87 firebird. I love them! BUt i need to find adapters so i can mount them on the front too! Reason is that im running a ford 8.8 out back and its cheaper to get rims/tires with much more traction than new axles and still have SLP 17x8s on the rear. The ford rear was 3" wider than the stock 9 bolt so the FR500 rims had the perfect backspacing.

 

Billet Emblems made for someones car on here.

 

I have got to see some more of this!

How are you going to use that for nitrous?

That is nice looking, SOOOOO much better that the notchback and 1000000 x better than the molded one.....

Those are nice!

 

The new one is more fun, albeit a single

 

What are you running in the 1/4? dyno before and aft?

 

where to get those emblems and how much

 

JOn that is frickin sweet.


QUOTE=Pocket;5056316]The new one is more fun, albeit a single

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just a few things ive done

 

heres is todays update on mine, alu-panel dash and a 1pc aluminum center console

 

Check out my swap thread and you'll see what I'm doing for my cold air intake. Of course, I removed all the cruise control stuff from under the drivers side battery tray to make room for a cone filter there.

My swap thread is under LTX LT1 swaps or just do a username search. Nice looking tpi bay ya got there

Two nice new white reservoirs would look sweet in there.




QUOTE=Transmetal;4927710]Lets see some pics. I did the same thing on mine awhile ago still not really sure if I like it. The K&N does go up in the fender.
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NICE!!!

 

everything was fabricated by me.

 

Nice work!

It looks like you have the two valve cover breather hoses going
to one breather filter on the drivers side. What fitting did u use to attach the breather fitting to the valve cover holes?

I ask because I may need to do something like this on my valve covers with the coil brackets I'm using since a normal breather may get in the way of the brackets.

 

heres day 2 of the center console. all it needs is final mock up for the gauges and the cutout for the t56 shifter

 

I guess my hammer-shifter install is a custom mod..

 

Love the idea of trying anyway. Would look real sweet if you got this working on both the front and rear.... Have a feeling that just filler in the gaps will be a dead end though. Might work on a short time basis, but after a few months and some driving I believe it would crack.... How did this work out for you?

 

Here is a pic of my "stock" T-body that I bored to 52mm/cut the center out and made it a monoblade back in 1991.
On top of it is my billet 58mm Tbody that Im giving the same treatment to.

 

nice.....been wondering what had happened with your car, hadn;t seen any threads on it lately, love the custom hood you had

 

Looks like you won't have a stereo. The engine will have to be music to your ears.

 

fiberglass box with color matched paint,,,the box is cut out 1/2" around the kicker sx amp and when the ignition is on there are led lights that make the gap glow red... once I finish switching the interior to black it should really be nice

 

Ok this might not be custom mod BUT its was hanging on my convertible and the it was very custom lol to bad its hanging now in a bar in New Zealand and not on my car anymore. I guess you can call it a bike for the true gear head

 

ive been really busy with work. im 95% done with interior and started on my rear bumper/ air dam.

 

well done man!

 

the rear bumper is far from done. the aluminum was just a mock up piece. everything will be fiberglass when done

 

I missed this post, sorry. The rims are made by ROH. They are Drift Rs. Triple A wheel and Group R wheels used to imprt them from Austrailia. I had to wait 6 months but it was worth it.

here is my latest fabrication.






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still badass though

 

i noticed you and a couple other people are boosted and not running intercoolers...how much boost are you running?

 

what exactly did you do to that tbi n how did you do it?

 

It looks like he just cut the center out and made one big butterfly

 

oh wow, i cant believe i didnt notice that when i looked at it before. i feel kinda stupid now haha

 

custom shift **** my pops machined for me. i tried to get him to put it in 3rd gen font but he didnt want to.

 

Here's some of my work... A bunch of holes filled from removing just about every bracket I could find. Getting ready to put the roof back on.

 

Some cool stuff here... But really I just need to get my post count up so I am more credible.

 

THAN MAKE MEANINGFUL POSTS

 

Honestly was being sarcastic here, but I guess your post was more meaningful than mine... Or you have nt read the entire thread to see where the sarcasm came from

 

i decided to finally fab up my gauge pod. ive had this stupid aftermarket stereo mounting thing in my shed and always wanted to see if i could make a gauge pod out of it. my dash is all cracked anyways so if it didnt come out good it didnt bother me.

 

as my car sits now might start a build thread, ive documented up until now and have a ton of pics.what do u guys think

 

I think it looks badass. I love the hood. What size rims and tires are those?

 

thanks awesome there 15" weld rims 205/50 in the back and i cant remember whats up front