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.

 

Pics????

 

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

 

Use tiny pic to upload

 

Test

 

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

 

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

 

Straight for me

 

You looking on a phone or computer?

 

 

iPhone

 

They are sideways on the computer

 

Yep. They are on mine. lol

 

Very nice project by the way

 

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

 

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

 

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?

 

Yes. You can do that.

 

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

 

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