Well my brother and I sold the ls1 out of PROJECT JUICE to a new home.
We made some good times out of a heads cam car weighing 3200lbs and had fun got the car down to 3200lbs with me driving the car.

So its time to get serious with new build this year goal is to hit low 8s with the new set up. I will post some details as I go but thought I would share some of the build and pics. We sent the car off to get a even bigger weight reduction. Then the car will go to paint before the motor gets here from TEXAS

Thanks DAVE@ NITROUSOUTLET for help on the set up of the car. If you guys needs Nitrous set up these guys know what they are doing.


New set up
414 solid roller (with goodies) big heads big cam= FAST
Nitrous Outlet spray bar and complete kit.
strange 12 bolt.
Blake Hughes @ 417motorsports for the one off FAB work and wiring.

OLD SET UP WITH SOME WEIGHT OUT OF IT


BLAKE STARTED IT LIKE THIS CAR WEIGHED 2975 NO DRIVER









Boxed in the fram rails



Well has some new bars and getting a new radiator.



CUSTOM BUILT HAVAC DELETE

 

 

Nice !!! Good luck with the build

 

that front end is ****!

i'm really jelly!!

 

thanks guys. The car goes to paint next week and is going to look sick.
Ordered Trick flows 245s from TEA yesterday and cam is being speced now. looking at a 720 lift solid roller.

 

radiator tabs welded in and mounted.

 

Nice!!!

 

Man that looks good.

 

That front end looks great.

 

Thanks. Will get more pics up tom. If I get a chance guys.

 

Nice work. Good luck with it.

 

Thanks FIREHAWK just trying to do it right any input you have let me know I know you have built some sick stuff. My brother and I bought this car for drag set up only. That way I still keep my Trans am nice and may take it back to more streetable cant afford to race to cars. lol

 

what size is the tubing you used?, you just went out with the main bar to were the rad. would be, or what set that size? Are you going to have it zues on fully. What the plan on the sides to the fenders, with the 10mm bolts stock?

I was thinking about going out farther so it stuck inside the lower profile of the camaro front bumper cover (under the grill). So it kinda sat on/around the tube. (like the chassis car front end fork mounting kits)
Low would be easy to step over, you could jack it up easy with a jack pad or post (not full weight probably) Keep the front end better for bumping things, and dragging/scrapping. But might wear a flat in it faster then just letting it flex, if it didn't have a soil tube right behind it? If you do drag it going fast. Low bar you could put a tow hook pin setup on it easy and it would face up. (you would see it a little up close) I dont think you could push the car on the nose still, with smaller 3/8 - 1/2 tubes for the top of the nose and the hood rail. So the bar higher more tight over the grill, under the nose emblem, would be better for that. You could put the tow tube hole under the "beak" overhang on the grill and hid it nice. I have a flush mounter flathead allen bolt there not to a alum bar setup on my front end now, but with all the stock front sheet metal. You could push the car easy on the nose with the bar behind it, would be harder to work on with bar higher at knee level with the nose off. But I think you would make it removable anyway if it want all the way to the nose. You would be able to get a normal size engine picker to pull the motor back that far. It would be nice if the top bar at the end of the fenders was removable too. There alot of ways to do it, I'm just thinking having a bigger HD tube to the nose would be better for street driving, going off the road, getting hit form the side. Minor fender benders you can fix the car still. Then having it all small lightweight tubes going to the nose. Past the cut frame rails, like some of the super light cars do, Mshall/widowmakers, smurff/SSP. That would be a W T F moment on the street, some lady side swipes the front end going slow and her stock accord just broke the headlight. And the front gets ripped off, with the headlights, and rad Just the engine showing
These are just theoretical situations, and illegal to do

 

This is a race only application

 

The whole weight thing is frustrating the **** out of me....... lol. I know I have the heavy *** block, all the turbo stuff, and a lil more when it comes to the cage but from I can see in the pics and what I was told I have taken out everything you guys did. And I take that weight was before you took all the wiring and started to convert to manual brakes? Did you have aftermarket light weight brakes on all four at the weight of 2975?

Again the car looks great John and Josh, cant wait to see it in person soon.

 

Car weighed 2975 with stock ta seats,abs,stock radiator, stock brakes with slotted rottors. stock A arms and a heavy long TA and cross brace.
We hole sawed the crap out of the car and sheded weight were we didnt need it.

 

I dont get it

 

Its at paint hoping to get pics next week

 

looking good i may end up doing the front end of my malibu like that

 

should have pics up this week. Shaved the gas tank off and the antena off and badges