As you may or may not know I got the back from the chassis shop last week. It was gone for a LONG time, and while it was gone the work that was planned just piled up. Well now that it is back in our hands the work can once again begin! I decided to just start an actual build thread to keep it all organized, so this is the thread for updates this season. This Car would not get done without the help of my buddy Sean(Broke EF). He has as much time as i do if not more working on it.

Two years ago Sean and myself bult a truck manifold turbo kit. Turbo kit uses a Precision GT42-76, Tial 44 gate, and Tial 50mm Bov.



The car used a walbro 255 pump, 60lb injectors, a ls6 intake, and mafe tune(didn't work out so great) 460ish whp @ 6psi...

Current build is getting

Brand new Lq9 block(370)
Stock Crank
Callies Rods
Wiesco Piston
Arp Main studs
Arp Head Studs
Patroit Stage 3 317 heads, Patriot Gold springs
Fabd valve covers with -10 bungs for a catch can
Custom Spec'd Turbo Cam
Ls7 Lifters
Brand new Gm rockers, with comp cams Trunion Upgrade
ls6 Intake
Stock Ported TB
Speed Inc Fuel rails
Fuel Lab regulator
Fuel Lab filter
-8 feed
-6 return
2 Walbro 255 pumps in take, With racetronix hotwire

The same Truck Manifold Turbo kit is going back on.(for now)

Suspension is All midwest Chassis Everywhere.
Rear Lower control arms, and panhard bar
Fron Upper, and lower control arm, Spindle, Manual rack, K Member
Rear stock spring, with Comp Engingeering strut
Front Stage Drag coilover







Brakes
Midwest chassis Manual Master
Replume the entire Car with brake line, and Strange 4 piston drag brakes @ all 4 corners

Trans
Drc Th400 with transbrake
B&M ratchet Carbon Fiber shifter
Tci Trans cooler
PTC Specd Turbo Converter


Rear End
Midwest Chassis Fab 9
spool, 35 spline axles, ect


Motor should be in this week, and the rest of the parts i pretty much have. Just need time to get them all ont he car, and get everything else done at the same time. Weight of this car should come in right around 3000 lbs, without a driver.(I think) I am hopeing in 6-8 weeks to have the car running, and begin the tunning again. this time it will be a 2 bar SD tune.
Futur plans consit of Upgrade to a 99+ ecu, so i can run 3 bar SD, with bigger injectors, and Get a bigger turbo, and Redo the turbo kit!



We started this weekend by mostly pulling out some weight, and generally got the car ready to carpet. I don't really have any pictures of specific work on this, but basically sean chopped out un-needed brackets, pulled excess wiring, and anything not needed. I got to work pulling the crash bars from the doors, changing the rear brakes, swapping out the rear control arms, and panhard bar to Midwest Chassis pieces. On with the pics.

This is somewhat before work started



Front view (had already pulled the e-brake and center brackets in this pic) You can also see the stock wheel is gone, and the quick release installed.



From the other side



Here is a shot of the stock brakes



A couple of comparison shots between the stock rotor and the strange rotor






And the strange brakes done



Started on the shifter mount/filling the 6-speed shifter hole



Tacked in



didn't get it finished, but its closeish here



whipped up a panel to cover the access hole in the back, you can also see we installed the HVAC delete panel



Here is the pile of **** we pulled from the car



And here is the weight of the pile


Well thats all for this week, it doesn't look like much but it was a lot of tedious work done. Thanks for looking!

 

I will try to do updates every weekend, really excited to see what the car can do. Hopeing for around 700 hp on 14.7 psi(limit of stock ecu). Thanks to everyone on this site. I have gotten a ton of ideas, and attempted stuff i might not have done because of this site!

Chris

 

Subscribed...great looking build so far, I am doing a very similar build on my camaro right now

 

 

Forot to mention me in part of your buddy crew! Can't waitto line em up street car to your race car!!

 

Funny I don't remember seeing you in the garage all those hours. I must have missed you while I was working.

Sean

 

subscribed,build is looking very good so far. cant wait to see the results..

 

sweet build! best of luck with it

 

Is your car still 4l60e and 10 bolt???




Chris

 

hell yeah! street car for life

 

Ahh poor poor Reject, you have NO chance in hell of beating us. I mean maybe you can beat Chris driving, but for sure not me.

Sean

 

chris and his ta vs me and my camaro

sean can sit in the bleachers and bench race chris's car.

 

Id be insulted by that comment if I didn't get to drive a car that was substantially faster than yours whenever I wanted.

Sean

 

Sweet build. In for the finished product

 

Nothing to exciting to update this weekend, but here it is anyway. We finished pulling all of the un-necessary parts, and lines. Did more work on the shifter mount, but ran out of gas for the welder before I finished. On to the pics!

Started out by turning the car around so we can get to the front easier.


Quick shot under the hood before work started


Having the right tools was key this weekend! This was removing the pedal assembly and the long extension made it a million times easier.


After pulling the brake master cylinder, and the booster. Also the clutch master cylinder is out too.


Up in the air to pull the fuel and brake lines


Here is the pile of **** that got yanked out this weekend and trashed. The top pile is stuff that is going to be modified and put back in.


No more wiper motor/arms. The stock plastic cowl cover is going to go back on.


This picture turned out bad, but this was after everything was pulled out.


Well that is all for this weekend, like I said not too exciting to look at. Now that the last of the tear down stuff is done we can start with the fun part, putting it all back together! Lots of parts came in this week, and the last of them will be here in the next couple of days. Next week should start the more exciting post where it actually looks like we got something done.


Thanks for looking!
Sean

 

Looks good, is that an inflatable santa I see in the back ground? lol.

 

Thanks, and yes it is

Sean

 

Nice looking car, I've always liked red T/As. Anyways nice work and looks like you have all the right parts to make it right. Keep up the good work!!

-Dave

 

Just got done doing a little electric for the Ta's new friend.




Motor will be delivered monday.. Now i just need 2 weeks off work to make a dent in the car.

Chris

 

That front end setup is nice. I remember you mentioning that your car was the test bed for this setup in another thread.