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I got a little progress done this past weekend. my folks came into town to spend some time with us and our daughter. My dad helped me a bit getting some stuff hammered out. i'm very happy with how things are turning out.
and the source of great debate over the weekend on facebook, lol. some say it's no longer a street car. the presence of tags and valid insurance beg to differ i'll drive it to cruise ins, which is all i do with it on the street anyway. in the event i ever make it to drag week, this will do that with zero problems. haterz gon hate, potaters gon potate
The only down side of doing that is the rules for "true street" type classes forbid it (exhaust has to exit behind the firewall). But, if your not planning in running those type of events... Go for it!!
made some progress this evening. number 1 and 3 primaries are all tacked together now, and i am happy to report that the driver's side header is now roughed in. i can see a few tweaks that i want to do, but overall they are turning out pretty much exactly as i've envisioned.
that number 1 primary was a booger-bear, but i got the length i needed out of it
it took me 3 tries to get that number 3 primary right, but it is finally tacked together. can't wait till my buddy gets over here with his TIG to get it final welded. now the daunting task of getting the passenger's side to be visually similar, lol!
the opposition from some of my "friends" on facebook has gotten to a comical level. totally polarizing going to the forward swept headers, lol. personally, i don't care what everyone thinks at this point. this setup is going to make working on the car so incredibly easy.
anyway, the water pump drive from g-spot sensors showed up yesterady
and here is where i sit on the headers. still need to do #2 and #4 primaries and i should be good.
Headers look great! How do you plan to get the exhaust gases out of the engine bay? I read your thread on the bullet asking about bull horns is that what you are going with?
i think your doing a great job with that car. ive been following your build on here and yellowbullet. how far are you from cecil county dragway. id love to see your car in person one day. i usually try to hit cecil late in the season(its almost a 4 hr ride each way for me)
i'm an hour and a half from there, and intend to hit it up a bit this season once i get done. thanks for the kind words man
i managed to finish tacking the headers tonight. i'm pretty happy overall. if i end up with a little extra time and i may redo that number 3 primary to match the number 4, which i feel like turned out amazing. the second header always goes better, eh?
i'm going to swap the boots/terminals out for 90* ones, but these ALMOST clear the oe wires without issue, lol!
and all done, both on the car
hoping next installment will include some stuff about the rearend/brakes
gotta go backwards to go forwards, right? feels like i'm only going backwards though old girl looks rough right now. i did base/clear on this engine bay back in 2008. 5 motors since then has been tough on her. i want to paint it, but it's not in the cards this winter.
well, i got about an hour last night to do some work, and i pulled the 9". i want to do all my set up on the bench so i'm not laying on the ground. also want to repaint it. hope to have this part of this project wrapped up by the weekend.
and, a preview of easily the biggest controversial topic i've ever done with my car, lol! haters can kiss my foot, i think this is awesome.
welded the fill plug on, got the brake line tabs welded on, and made a proper mount for the chassis to axle hose (it was just dancing in space before, lol!)
will try to build the hardlines tonight after work. prepping to be able to paint it tomorrow hopefully. Also, the mid plate finally showed up mid-plate and blocksaver plate in one!
too bad you have a front motor plate already, been sitting on a bad dude one for an ls set up, decided to go a different route on the next build though
tell your friends!!
Last edited by JesasaurusRex; 03-21-2015 at 07:06 PM.
this weekend was BUSY. i cleaned the rearend up and painted it, pulled the tank to put a proper vent in it, installed the mid plate, and decided to take more weight out i probably just made my life way more complicated as now i have to spend some time fabbing up the radiator support with necessary mounts and tabs for all the stuff to to attach to. I actually have a little time to kill though, cause turns out the pinion support i have will NOT work with the 35 spline pinion thankfully, i found a NOS Strange N1922 for $98 shipped on ebay, so i scooped it up before someone else did. since the rear gears aren't going in yet, i'm stalled on the axle reassembly :eyes: . anyway, here's the pictures from this weekend:
hammertone black turned out FANTASTIC
the mid plate needs to be bent to go with the firewall on the driver's side. i didn't have a brake to bend it with, so i improvised
seems to work well!
and all wrapped up
and here's the car as it sits. radiator support to materialize by mid week
my list is diminishing, but still a long ways to go.
I see you still running that s10 manual box...I went to rp...and saved like 51lbs....I just fabed a mount from my k member and did new steering shaft...I spent about $185 total with rack and steering joints and some pipeing.
also I mod my spindles to be used with 1/2 rod end...after all the steering feels way better than before and turning radius is almost the same...glad I did it.
rack and pinion is on the list for next winter. i have to draw the line somewhere, the car has to be at the racetrack by mid-may, hopefully well tested, lol!
rack and pinion is on the list for next winter. i have to draw the line somewhere, the car has to be at the racetrack by mid-may, hopefully well tested, lol!
lol...keep taking weight out the front soon you will need new rear bumper..
Brakes are on, axle is in, starting to look like a car again. another exhausting weekend through. i'm hoping only another few weekends like this before i'm back together.
i got word from my buddy that is doing the finish welding on the headers that his race this weekend got canceled, so he is looking to go out next weekend for testing. thusly, he is coming down this weekend to do the welding instead of next weekend. that's all fine and good, except as of yesterday he had no space to work on the headers in my shop (cause it was such a mess) and the engine was not in the car. so out in the garage i went to install the mock up engine and do some cleaning, lol! had a new supervisor watching today. hope she liked what she saw.
Milestone achieved! Headers are welded, and I got the longitudinal limiter built today. Mock up and fabrication is nearing completion. I'm only missing a few tabs on the radiator support for hood retention, to mount the headlight bar, and the exhaust of course. I'm hoping to blow this all back apart soon to paint and start final assembly. Huge thanks to Jeff Moyer for coming down to TIG these up
02-25-2015, 06:44 PM
i'll drive it to cruise ins, which is all i do with it on the street anyway. in the event i ever make it to drag week, this will do that with zero problems. haterz gon hate, potaters gon potate 
i didn't come out being able to do this, lol! 
old girl looks rough right now. i did base/clear on this engine bay back in 2008. 5 motors since then has been tough on her. i want to paint it, but it's not in the cards this winter.
