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Looks great, I like the modern retro theme.

darren roar

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can't say enough about that motor, looks awesome

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hey do fit great, they are dynatech muscle maxx for this specif application, and yes it is a lh8 oil pan, but id highly recomend going with a f-body pan tho, cause this one hangs below the crossmember....



once the engine and trans were mocked up, and painted/cleared. i took the subframe, suspension, innner fenders, rad support, bumper brackets, etc to get powder coated.....
while at powder coat, this gave me a good opertunity to smooth the firewall.. i started by gutting the inside, so i wouldnt catch the inside on fire.... i found some pretty cool stuff in the glove box, seams like the orignal owner kept a maintance log book in the glove box, and i found the owners manual etc.....

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and started chopping away at the firewall

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everything welded up and ground down

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now im ready for body filler, sanding, body filler, sanding, body filler, sanding, priming, sanding, priming,sanding, then painting

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Wait, what happened? Where is the rest of this beautiful build?

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I forgot about this thread on here, but here is a huge update...
then i took the frame, suspension, inner fenders, core support, etc... to the powder coating shop, and got them back..then started doing re-assembly

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here are a few more pics of the re-assembly

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now the sub-frame can be married back up to the body, with the subframe connectors

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i can now start loading up the intake with the 44lbs injectors, fuel rails, gaskets, etc....

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and here are a few teaser pics of what it is going to look like..

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here are the little time consuming parts, they were all blasted and painted

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I then started the process of re-wiring the car, i searched and searched for a vehicle specific harness, but I couldn't find one... so i got a universal EZ wire harness... here are a few pics of the process

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after i got the front end wired, i was looking for a good place to mount the computer, hidden yet easy to access. i found that behind the pass side inner fender, on the firewall would be best. so i fabbed a mount, modded a truck computer holder, and mounted there.

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ooce i had the intake in place, i dissassembled, blasted, and painted the throttle body.
I also installed the gas pedel so i could measure and cut the throttle cable.

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once i had the intake on, it was time to see how much hood clearance i would have (or not)
so back on with the front sheetmetal, with new front end bolt kit.

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welp, i blasted and painted the hood hindges, and installed the hood...Bad news, the hood hit the edelbrocke intake....i was kiiina bumbed about that, but ill usee it on another project.. so i bought a typhoon intake, thats where a few changes had to take place...the valley cover bolts pysically hit the bottom of the intake, so i had to switch them out to some button head bolts... once i had the intake mounted, the throttle body hit the water pump (truck style)....so i switch it out to the f body water pump.... once i did that, i either had to use spacers behind the water pump so the accys would all line up, this was an option, but i didnt like how the truck accys placed the alt. above the intake (just looked funny to me)... so i had to switch to f body accys. this involved removing the harmonic balancer, and replacing with a f body one..
so i went ahead and ordered all the f body accys (still waiting on them in the mail)

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i then installed my front bumper, and header panel....and finally my hood would close..