You mean like this.....??

 

man your doing some amazing work. and it looks like its paying off, keep it up and good luck

 

Thanks guys. Got some more work done this morning, got some of the brake lines done with the exception of the brackets, will finish them up thursday when I pickup the line lock from my dads house. Also fab'd up the BS3 mount, it will sit in front of the center console below where the radio would sit.

 

You're going to want the BS3 where you can get to it very easily. You'd be surprised how many times you need to get to the box for this and that. Getting that plus all of your fuses/breakers where you can get to them without having to be a contortionist or to have a dozen different tools out is going to be a big help.

 

A big coil of copper tubing in a big loop inside your water tank works pretty good. Otherwise you can run some of those other ones as well as to make one by using a smaller intercooler core and pump water one way and trans fluid the other way. As far as external coolers go the Derale 16 pass cooler with fan works very well.

 

ok so um when are u paying my garage a visit? lol

1 small question. whynot a twin turbo?

 

I've made my mind up, we're going to shoot to get it running and somewhat tuned this month(october) so I can try and make some shakedown passes next month and maybe make a race or 2.

 

cnt wait to see the results

 

That car sure is coming out great, bet you are so excited, if you get too scared to drive it you can give it to me =P

 

I am very excited to get some seat time, its been a year since my last fast pass in the corvette. Car should be running end of the month.

 

Wow! Looking really good so far. Nice work.

 

You got me all excited, I took out my front bumper today and bypassed my power steering, look out I am gaining on you

 

The front bars are done, here is what I ended up with....

 

I see what bar you are talking about, I would take out the little gusset and run a bar from the cage by the floor up where it passes through the firewall, it will triangulate it better and be a lot stronger.

It will also give you a nice place to custom make a plate to mount your electronics on.

Are you going to add a bar running down to the frame where the front strut is or just leave it welded to the one spot in the front?

Are you planning to tie in the strut tower to that bar some how?

 

Man you are dong a great job on this car for doing it out of your garage.How many hours have you welded on this car? Keep it up!! its going to be a bad *** for sure.

 

Yeah I can't wait to see it all done, cool car for sure.

 

why arent you driving the vette?

 

We made some small progress this past weekend, almost ready to pull the motor and start assembly...

Due to the nose bars we had to relocate the water pump rearward and down 1"


New water pump location


Intercooler mounts done, welded threaded 3/4" aluminum boss(s) to the tank and used DOM tubing for the struts


Downpipe progress


Downpipe progress 2


Getting a handle on welding


Downpipe front shot


Big *** fuel pressure regulator


Brace for brake box

 

I don't know. When I built my last motor I never thought it would be a pain in the *** to drive. Its soo loud and the car just draws too much attention. I sold the motor out of it and a handful of other things, I'm going to build another motor for it in about a month to get it back on the road. The car is a very clean 99 with 38k on the odometer, I'll probably end up selling it.

 

One thing I need to decide is where to mount the ignition coils. I'm trying to keep the engine bay as clean as possible so I need to put them either in the cabin or fender well.