fired it up for the first time today. just to check the systems and make sure I didn't screw the motor up too bad, haha. ran great. need to work on the tune and wrap a few small things up like exhaust

also got the Airaid 4" intake tube finally. cut out the piece I needed and finished the cold air intake setup. pretty happy with it

Mike

 

It sounds good. You did a clean job installing it, it looks really nice.

 

Thanks! Appreciate it

Mike

 

Mike,

Good info on the shifter. I want to do an automatic in my GTO and have a hump just like that. What was the shifter PN that you used?

Andrew

 

Thanks. I'll have to see if I still have the receipt. Just the standard 8" 4L60E shifter. Came with offset arms for the linkage. Works great

Broke in the motor today after getting the tune decent. It's scoots pretty good. These old bfg radial t/a's are terrible, haha. Blows them off at half throttle. Love the 4k stall. Hits the power band perfect. Will get some video tomorrow

Mike

 

I'm looking forward to seeing it.

 

congrats on getting it running.

what gears ya running?

 

still has the stock rear end. 3.08 gears and open diff.

next upgrade is axles, limited slip and gears.

Mike

 

creeping up on the tune. did some logs today

 

Hawaii is weird with car parts. I couldn't find a decently priced 8.8 for a few weeks. Then today I picked up a 1999 Ford Explorer 8.8 rear end for free. It also came with the whole vehicle which got sent to scrap. It is the "D4" code so that means it has 3.73 gears with a limited slip. Disc brakes to boot. These rear ends have 31 spline axles

I also picked up 3 short side axles. This gives me two full sets as I'll be cutting 3" out of the long side and running two short axles. Once the long tube is shortened, it winds up 3/8" narrower than the Nova 10 bolt.

So I'll get it stripped down tomorrow and over to the chassis guy to shorten the one tube.

Then it's time to move the leaf springs inward 2" and mini tub it.

Mike

 

I love when thing workout like that, Nice score! It looks like it's running pretty well already. Nice video.

 

Cool find.

 

yeah, car is running great. put 900 miles on it in 2 weeks. burned up the torque converter lock up clutch. not sure how, but I'll send it in to get fixed

Mike

 

What a mess this made cutting the brackets off and removing some surface rust. Not looking forward to that again

Mike

 

got the long side shortened and tubes welded to the center section.

going to leave the car alone until august or september. that's when the rainy season starts. it'll take a while to do the mini tub, relocate leafs, order wheels and tires, etc so I might as well take advantage of the nice weather and keep driving it.

Mike

 

Hell yeah, that sounds like a plan.

 

Hows it been going with the Holley dominator? Any feedback?

 

Way better than anticipated. I had a slight issue with the idle and it stalling easily. Was an error on my part by not setting idle with fans on, lights, in gear, etc to set a lot of load on the motor. Once I figured that out it's been great

The fuel self learning is spot on but you still have to clean the graph up a little bit to make it nice and smooth. But that's just click up or down in a few spots

Part throttle and cruising is like a stock car. This is a pretty decent size cam and it doesn't buck, sputter or anything out of the ordinary.

WOT same story. It gets down for what it is. Put a gap on a bolt on coyote spraying a 100 shot. On paper that car should have killed me, haha

Mike

 

I'm not very good with leaving things alone. so here we are

I've been planning to put a LSA blower on it next year sometime but a deal came up and I couldn't pass. so then I lightly asked around and scored some LS3 heads as well.

Made a phone call to Tick Performance and they said my current cam should clear with the LS3 heads, so I figured why not swap out the top end and lessen the efforts when it's time to install the blower. I'll just swap the current cam out for a BTR stage 3 blower cam without pulling the heads when it happens

it'll stay N/A for now and I'll stick to the plan with the rear suspension happening next

Mike

 

Glad to hear the Holley system is working well for you. It sounded pretty good in the drive video.