mdbreaux

Yeah I did not beat Ken, but I did meet Paige and that was worth it. I still have not seen the episode, but I know it's out there becuase alot of people tell me they saw it. The car is about two weekends from running again. Then it will be tuned by Alan Futral. Then the fun will begin.

mdbreaux

I have made alot of progress and will post some more pics this evening. I am a few weekends away from starting the engine for the first time. It has been a very difficult and expensive ordeal with alot of my own blood sweat and tears, but it is all worth it.

NOLAG05

That car is krazy!! Are you in Maryland?

Boosted One

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Great looking build! Very impressive.

mdbreaux

Thanks again. I am in Louisiana. I need to post the most recent pics. The car is about 1 week away from being finished.

ClimberD

What a beautiful turbo car

mdbreaux

Thanks for the compliments. It makes the last 3 years worth it. The car should have been completed this weekend, but it has been raining like crazy here in Louisiana all week and is suppose to continue this wekend. I will get some done but will not complete it until next weekend. Then it gets started and then tuned by Alan Futral. I am very luck to have so many good racing service providers here right near me lile Alan Futral, Chris "Chicken-Bone" Laquerre, Madman, and Larry Meaux. Anyway, I am about to load some pics I took tonight so oyu can see how she sits right now. All these hoses and wires make you jealous of the big block with carb and nitrous. But I am a turbo guy.

mdbreaux

Engine pics taken this evening showing lots of hoses and wires added

mdbreaux

These pics show how I aded a vacuum catch can from the vacuum pump and made all my hose splits with Y blocks an put all of the in the front so they are not staggered all over the place. The Y blocks are for fuel, turbo water coolant lines for 2 turbos, and intercooler core, which has one 12an entrance and two 10an exits that split to return to the ice water tank in the back. These pics also show my new exhaust. It use to go through the k member and terminate right behind the tranny. However, I really needed the space to run hoses and I wanted to mount my coils on the frame rails under the spark plugs, which I did. I always wanted to make the exhaust simply curve down from each turbo and exit out the bumper for simplicity. They are large - 4". The bumper pic shows the exits as well as my garage.

mdbreaux

These pics show one the exhaust pipes coming off the turbo and curving 180 degrees to the side of the bumper. Then, you can see the aluminum cover I made for the cavity where the windshield wiper motor use to go. Finally, you can see the hood mounts that were ferrous iron. I painted them with red spray paint to match, then sanded them with 600 grit, then about 5 coats of Duplicolor clear coat from a spray can, then 1500 grit and 2000 grit sand paprt (all wet sanded using soap and water) and then buff with McGuire's fine polish. That is the best I can do with paint.

mdbreaux

These last pics are multiple views of the tranny dipstick tube mount. I though about how to mount that darn thing for 2 months and made one attempt to tig weld a bracket to the sheet metal under the windshield, but it was way too flimsy, as the sheet metal under the windshield has very little strength. So I cut that off and built a bracket with 1/4" aluminum. You can see the brasket bridging two of the holes left behind when the black plastic windshield wiper contraption was removed. The bracket required some mounting tabs that I had to weld at odd angles, which was an interesting endeavor, but luckily it worked out on the first try. It is super solid and you can not move the dipstick handle around at all, which is what I wanted.

mdbreaux

That is all the pics I have for now. I will take some pics of the coil mounts next time I have the car off the ground. If anyone has any questions and.or wants to duplicate something I did, I have no problem helping s much as I can. Keep in mind, I am doing all this in my driveway. I have to pull the car out of the garage and work on it in the driveway at my house. I can mig and tig weld and I do have some tools like a band saw, etc. to fabricate all this stuff, but I am not an expert.

ClimberD

Very cool stuff!

98Camarod

iTrader: (43)

Looks good man! What kit or block setup did you use for your vent setup for the coolant?

mdbreaux

Kurt urban performance sells the one I have to vent the steam from the heads. It consist of the fittings on the corner of the heads and the collection block then you supply the hose and an fittings.

mdbreaux

Here is my "shop." I use that term only here to show that it is really not a shop and only my garage, a storage room, and my driveway. I would have never thought I could do all this in this enironment, whatever works. My tools are still in portable tool boxes, I found my worktable next to a dumpster, My friend gave me the band saw and sander becuase the motors were bad, so I bought sealed motors so I can use them around water, and that little black iron work table was my grandfather's old table saw that went bad so I removed the saw stuff and it works great. The most expensive tool is the Thermal Arc tig welder.

mdbreaux

Here is my band saw set up to cut aluminum to make brackets, etc. It is water cooler - LOL, but it works great. Here is my car after being pulled out of the garage to work on it.

SSZ

Impressive work. You should be proud of it. Gives inspiration also to guys who cant afford to have someone else do the work. Is that a plasma cutter you have there too? Car sits awesome too.

navyblueSS

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Very nice, awesome build!

mdbreaux

Thanks again. That is a plasma cutter. However, I really have rarely used it for car stuff because steel cuts cleaner with a grinder cutoff wheel and aluminum cuts easy with the band saw. I did not build the roll cage, install the rear end, torque arm, suspension - Madman did that, and someone else built the engine - Chris Laquerre. Also, I am not tuning it. However, I did do everything else, and it took me a long long time. I started this street to strip conversion when I delivered it to Madman in 12/08, so it has taken me 3 years, but that is because of funds and I cna only work on it on the weekends and occasionally in the late evenings. I also live in Louisiana so the weather is forever changing occasionally preventing me form working on it.