Jgant813

What’s up guys! Been a reader on here for a while and this is the first thread that I am starting for my 87 Foxbody LQ9 build. The car will see probably 90% track use. I’m located in central FL for what it’s worth.

So just a little background on the car....got an 87 Fox with an 2002 LQ9/Th400 in it. The car was completely gutted when I got it, no ecu, wiring harness, etc. So I’m planning on running the Holley HP efi with an On3 turbo kit. I know I can get away with running a worked factory ecu but I don’t have any tuning experience and the Holley platform is very user friendly from what I have read, and will allow me room to grow down the road.

My goal is to be a fairly budget oriented build that will push a light foxbody (the interior is completed gutted down to the bare metal, no dash, ac, full chromoly tubular front end, etc) into the mid to low 9s using a cam only turbo LQ9.

After sitting in the garage for a few months I finally got the motor and tranny pulled. I am going to disassemble the engine to double check everything since the motor was somewhat rebuilt by the previous owner. I got everything down to the short block tonight and everything seems to be real clean.

I was was relieved to find out that it does in fact have floating pin rods. I had seen some discussion on various forums that all LQ9s were gen 4, but some had stated it wasn’t til late 04 even in the LQ9.

Ive got a long road ahead of me to get it going, but I thought I would start a thread to keep track of the build.

Here’s some pics of where I’m at and of the engine internals.

G Atsma

Pics????

Jgant813

Idk if I did something wrong but when I posted the pics it gave me a message saying waiting for moderator approval or something similar. Idk

brandon6.0

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Use tiny pic to upload

Jgant813

Test

Jgant813

Ok I finally figured out how to load pics lmao. Seems like quite a process with the technology available today, but maybe I’m just an idiot lol

G Atsma

They're all sideways, but, OK....

dmracing

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Straight for me

G Atsma

You looking on a phone or computer?

Jgant813

dmracing

iTrader: (78)

iPhone

dmracing

iTrader: (78)

They are sideways on the computer

G Atsma

Yep. They are on mine. lol

dmracing

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Very nice project by the way

dannyual777

Sideways on my laptop as well but at least we can see them! Thanks for posting them up.

G Atsma

I think they are good on phones because you can turn phones sideways. FIXED! lol

Jgant813

thanks for all the help guys. I still dont know why the pics are sideways on the computer but ill try to get it squared away before i post more pics next time.

One quick question.....

I currently have the stock truck intake and dbw throttle body. Only problem is the car didnt come with a DBW pedal etc. I am leaning towards running a nnbs/tbss intake to take advantage of the 90-92mm throttle body size anyways, but would rather run a DBC throttle body.

Since i am going to run Holley HP i should be able to put a DBC throttle body with IAC on the nnbs/tbss intake and be good to go correct?

dmracing

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Yes. You can do that.

brandon6.0

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Yes that will work. A stock Silverado throttle cable would work great if u wanted.

Jgant813

I thought so. thanks. hopefully youll still have one of those intakes here in a week or two once i start piecing together all the parts i need