my back seat was pretty trashed, I found this on craigslist

 

picked up some IROC wheels



the front two are BFG G-force sports with around 80% left, the rear two are getting replaced with Nitto NT555s

 

my Nitto NT555Rs came in last week, mounted them up today

 

went out and took a few pictures of my car, the IROC wheels really changed the look of it




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Must be a night and day differnce with all the upgrades, how does it handle now and how do you like that GW track link.

 

I have been keeping up with your build for a while now, keep up the good work! I noticed you removed the front fender ground effects and the small rear quarter panel pieces, are you planning on leaving them off?

 

it defiantly handles alot better, hopefully I'll get out to a few autoX events this summer

I like track link so far, I can't really compare it to any other style torque arm.

 

there staying off, they where in really bad shape and never fit right, the previous owner had stitched the RF one back together with sheet-metal and rivets, the rear ones where in OK shape but I like it better without them.

 

Since I don't daily drive this car anymore, I figured I'd get rid of the crappy 2 1/2" single exhaust.

here's the old exhaust




The new set-up is literally a hack job I cut up the old exhaust to make this, all I had to buy was two 18" long 2 1/2" straight pieces and mufflers, I am gonna add a crossover pipe eventually






I have alot more tuning to do but it seems to pull alot harder from 3000-6000RPM

 

I added an H-pipe a couple weeks ago, it sounds completely different now

 

I also made it out the track a few weeks ago, best pass was a 15.66 at 87.20mph

 

been battling with what seemed like a vacuum leak and weird smell coming from the exhaust for a while, but I couldn't find anything on the top side of the motor, so off came intake


after looking at the gaskets the intake ports didn't seem to be leaking but around the exhaust crossover was all oil soaked and black. and after some searching on google I used fel-pro permatorque gaskets and some people say they wont work with aluminium intakes so this time I used the edelbrock 7201 that they recommend with there intake.

I found this while I did the intake gaskets



my mr.gasket thermostat feel apart, thats the second one of these that have failed so I picked up a moroso water outlet restrictor kit

 

Nice project man keep up the work! When will it be painted & how come you deleted the rear spoiler?

I had a 82 but was black and gold, sold it to a member here for 1,000.00 since it couldn't get through smog anymore and I knew he would fix it up nice. It went to the netherlands.

 

Exhaust looks nicely tucked. Well done. I do hope you get
a spoiler put back on when you get it painted.

@Jeffs82TA
Does it still need to pass 'smog' test when it is a classic where you are at?

 

I made this exhaust comparison video from a few clips I had on my computer.http://youtu.be/B79B9vkHzuo

 

I haven't updated this in while..not much changed, I drove it all summer made it to 5 street legal nights best time was a 15.33 at 88mph.

after the new exhaust the car was running alittle lean, when I went to change the jets my elcheapo chrome fuel line twisted off




I may have got carried away with AN fittings and braided line again but I like this setup alot better, I don't even have to take the fuel lines off to change jets. I didn't have a 90* degree fitting so the line for the rear bowl is alittle long.

 

Middle of july I took the car on a 1200KM roadtrip to see my parents, I took a few pictures along the way.

overheated on the side of the road, really need an airdam

 

In front my girlfriends parents house

 

this seemed like good spot for some pictures, the gravel pit in the back ground of the first picture is where we used to party back in highschool.

 

a few pictures of the car going away for the winter

 

since its that time of year again I've been collecting parts,

black door panels, almost done converting my interior to black, debating on leaving the headliner and seats grey.

 

this is completely over kill for my engine but it was shiny and...I'll just leave it at that..lol
fully adjustable mechanical/vacuum advance with a built in rev limiter






comp XE262H cam and all the required parts for it




comp magnum 1.52 roller tip rockers



this should be a fun winter.

 

haven't updated this for awhile, I finished doing the cam swap.


but it didn't really have any more power than it did before. best pass before was a 15.35 at 88mph after it went 14.93 at 93 mph, shoulda known better the bottom end was done.

I also got sick of dragging the exhaust on every bump or dip in the road went back to a 3" single with a flowmaster 80
this was my first try at building a y-pipe

 

my buddy had this 88 L98 sitting around, here it is after a good cleaning and paint



and in the car



best pass so far has been a 14.12 at 98 I haven't done any tuning yet the carb and distributor are still set up for the 305