355z28

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After having my car apart so many times, There were a lot of things that I didn't like about it. This past winter I decided I was going to tear the under carriage apart and paint the bottom side, powdercoat all the suspension and modify the radiator support.

One thing led to the next and I decided to paint the engine bay, go 24x, lower the radiator support for the lid setup, go with a ford 9", run all new fuel and brake lines. Here is the progress i've made. Its far from done but I'm hoping in another month or two.

Bottom painted


Powder coated intake and rails



Stripped and ready for some more work



Engine bay paint prep


New quick performance 9"


Painted gunmetal

Moser 35 spline axles


Suspension put together. I rolled it outside for a bath and some garage cleaning to prepare everything for paint.




The engine is very easy to remove now. As soon as the engine bay is painted the engine will go back in.

95mysticta

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Wow your doing a lot of work but its definetly going to pay off once its done! Love the attention to detail on this build man keep it up

gregrob

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You have paint in your fuel rail fittings!

Looks good man. Spray it

355z28

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lol the powder coat is just at the edges, no where close to where the orings go. I'll clean most of it up.

I plan on spraying quite a bit this year!

gregrob

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There's some actually inside the front fitting.

transbird95

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Looks great! I will be doing that to my car next year. Do you know if you can get that torque arm bracket separate? I am looking for something stronger for my 9''.

gregrob

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Later I heard QP would not sell the TA mount separately.

transbird95

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Damn, thanks.

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1961ba427

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My god that intake looks sexy.

bufmatmuslepants

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+1

lethal bird

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+1.... Makes my freshly painted intake look like do-do.

joeZ96

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Wow. Awesome work. Are you keeping track of the number of man hours or did you give up?

1961ba427

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I see some cans of hammertone in my near future. Well...was getting some for the rearend anyway, but now my intake will get the treatment too. lol I bet mine will still look like crap compared to this one. LOL

1961ba427

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I've been fighting with myself over whether or not to butcher my radiator support the last few months. Not just the usual cut-out for the LS1 lid, but something more drastic like you did. I saw pics of a "big mouth" mod in a Chris13 ram air thread and haven't been able to forget it.

69gto96z

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Awesome work! My car will be down in the next year for undercarriage and underhood cleaning/painting, then a 12 bolt or s60, built tranny and new motor. Then new exterior paint. Can't wait to see your build after its all finished up!

355z28

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Thanks, I started powder coating to do this stuff. As much as I wanted to do it made sense to buy the equipment lol. I did bolt heads, the water pump, every spindle and control arms, thermostat housing accessory brackets etc. I'll have more pictures of the work as I go. Its just starting to come back together. Individual pieces just wont do justice...The complete engine will lol

But for now here are a few more pictures of the intake!




Belt tensioner

355z28

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No sense in keeping track of hours for something like this lol I mainly work on it from 9am to 8 at night every Sunday. Ive been doing that for the last 3 months with the occasional Saturday thrown in. It will be worth it in the end.

69gto96z

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Do you plan to use the stock hood?