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Old Jan 20, 2011 | 04:14 PM
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Subscribing since deciding to go with a blower myself! Awesome build thread! Wish i had the tools, time and tallent to do 1/2 this **** myself!!!
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Old Jan 20, 2011 | 09:56 PM
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Thanks Braden!! You will have to check it out once Nate and I are done!

----Worked on the car tonight......No pictures, those will come Monday night....gotta work this weekend so won't make any progress till then. Got alot of the welding smoothed out and also Nate talked me into filling in the TRAC control indent (Don't have TRAC control on my car) on the passenger wheel well which I wasn't so hot about that idea at first, but it will make the engine bay look much much cleaner and I am happy we did it now that it's done!! Pictures to follow....Monday!

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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Bigrob339
Thanks Braden!! You will have to check it out once Nate and I are done!

----Worked on the car tonight......No pictures, those will come Monday night....gotta work this weekend so won't make any progress till then. Got alot of the welding smoothed out and also Nate talked me into filling in the cruise control indent (Don't have cruise control on my car) on the passenger wheel well which I wasn't so hot about that idea at first, but it will make the engine bay look much much cleaner and I am happy we did it now that it's done!! Pictures to follow....Monday!
Traction Control ! Damn, I have to watch your every update
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 07:50 AM
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Hey man it was late pal give me a break!!!
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 09:03 AM
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Nice looking build. I'm helping out with a car that's got an f1a on it, what we ended up doing was we had a radiator made that as narrrow/thicker, and just offseet it over to the passenger's side so the blower would have enough room for a large filter sitting strait forward, this way we didn't have to redo too much of the car.

Looks good though, you have plenty of room in there for a big *** fiter that shouldn't be much of a restriction, and it should make working on the car alot easier as well in the future, which is ALWAYS nice.
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
Nice looking build. I'm helping out with a car that's got an f1a on it, what we ended up doing was we had a radiator made that as narrrow/thicker, and just offseet it over to the passenger's side so the blower would have enough room for a large filter sitting strait forward, this way we didn't have to redo too much of the car.

Looks good though, you have plenty of room in there for a big *** fiter that shouldn't be much of a restriction, and it should make working on the car alot easier as well in the future, which is ALWAYS nice.
That was an idea but the owner Rob didn't like the finished look with it slide to one side. He's more into the show car thats extremely fast type set up. Thanks and good luck with your build
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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 05:10 PM
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How is this POS project coming along?
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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 05:23 PM
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Nice build!!!!
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Old Feb 6, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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Well its been awhile since I have updated....seems like everytime we would plan to work on this thing, it would end up snowing and of course Nate and I do snow removal so the car got put on hold!!

We ended up changing the intercooler around a bit after Nate talked to Bell Intercoolers....we ended up flipping the inlet tank to the top and then having a 3.5" outlet welded on. Also had two mounting tabs per side welded onto the intercooler for our fog lights. Thanks to Bill Davis for his amazing work!!




We also had Bill do a little work to the radiator...welded on our steamtube and also he fabricated a fan shroud for it. Still deciding on what we want for fans......



Also this week I had these show up......



Hopefully this week we can finish up the fog lights and the little welding we got to do. This thing will be off to paint in 2 weeks is the plan then back for reassembly. JPH (Joe) has to get this motor assembled also !!

Will update more Monday as long as it doesnt snow and we work on it
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 08:33 PM
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Well here is a update on the progress......Motor is coming together and should all be buttoned up within 2 weeks and ready to drop in

--We got our fog light brackets all figured out. They will mount to our intercooler to the tabs that were welded on.


--We finished up all the welding and got her loaded up so we can start the mudding. Also got the fuel tank out and getting ready to send it out to Lonnies Performance for twin pumps.





--Finally got it dropped it off to my buddy Tim Kiefer who has done a amazing job painting this engine bay for me. The wheel wells are my favorite they look sick!!






Installing the K-member again to Tim can finish up his part and picking it up Saturday and bringing it home so the can start the assembly process!! Will have more updates as it comes together.....
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 08:38 PM
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Looks very nice painted.
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by raymond mckinney
Looks very nice painted.
Thanks its been alot of work to get it to this point!!!
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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 08:48 PM
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Well its been awhile since I posted a update....Joe has been slowly puttin the motor together. We put all kinds of nice parts inside the motor....yella terra rockers, crane lifters, 3/8 pushrods...etc.



Motor all together.... still got to run the fuel rail cross over and steam port lines.



Nate and I started back on the car also....got my boost and FP gauges in and also got the AFX wideband in...



Also got the Tick Master installed....


Here is how it sits and will update more tomorrow!!! Excited to pick the motor up this week and hopefully in the next 2 weeks put it in the car!!
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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 08:55 PM
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looks great! awesome car
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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 09:36 PM
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awesome build man! You definitely have alot of attention to detail. I love looking at build threads like this.
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Old Apr 18, 2011 | 09:00 AM
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Thanks guys.....I am hoping to get it together ASAP so I can enjoy it this summer!! Update later today after we work on it!!
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Old Apr 18, 2011 | 12:04 PM
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Hope to see it out in the fort one day!! beautiful car
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Old Apr 18, 2011 | 01:09 PM
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Looks good, Rob.
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Damn, I hate you lol.. Nice build man..
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Looks great Rob! It should come together rather quickly now that the engine is built. Bob
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