'84 Cutlass JY5.3, Custom Tick Cam, S400SX4-75, 4L80e, 3.73s, 27 inch MT's
06-09-2013, 06:03 AM
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Thanks man....wish my garage wasn't such a mess, but once I get everything done that I plan today, then I can actually get rid of a on of boxes. Just looks like crap in there now...haha
Oh well, I will have more updates today fosho! Maybe it will be sitting between the frame rails....a novel concept! lol
Oh well, I will have more updates today fosho! Maybe it will be sitting between the frame rails....a novel concept! lol
06-09-2013, 07:02 PM
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No updates just yet...getting the old trans out took a bit more effort than expected. I had to drive an hour away to deliver it then swung by Atco Raceway's speed shop to grab the engine mounts. Well wouldn't ya know it, they were running their pro, super pro and street eliminator series. I had to watch right??? Finally got home and had to cut the lawn...now I am at my parents house eating a free dinner...lol
I might make it into the garage in a little bit...
Thanks dude!
I might make it into the garage in a little bit...
Thanks dude!
06-10-2013, 10:05 PM
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Ok sorry about the delay...work has been a bear lately. I am honestly glad about that. I would rather have too much and not enough.
Only had a couple hours to work tonight so this update will be brief.
Finished assembling what I could on the engine. That includes installing the pushrods, rockers, valley cover and intake. I then followed that up with soaking my nasty azz valve covers in three scoops of Tide with hot water...after pre-soaking them with Simple Green (I love that shyt). This was a little trick from my modeling days that I still use when I need to take paint off of plastic model train bodies. Strong enough for toys, but pH balanced for valve covers...lol
Anyhow, on to the pics!
After a little scrubbin' and tough lovin'...I let it soak then used a white wall brush (worked GREAT!!!)
Drying from a nice coat of Wrinkle Black...
Hopefully tomorrow the trans will be hanging from the back and this pig will be in the engine bay. Here's to hoping!!
Only had a couple hours to work tonight so this update will be brief.
Finished assembling what I could on the engine. That includes installing the pushrods, rockers, valley cover and intake. I then followed that up with soaking my nasty azz valve covers in three scoops of Tide with hot water...after pre-soaking them with Simple Green (I love that shyt). This was a little trick from my modeling days that I still use when I need to take paint off of plastic model train bodies. Strong enough for toys, but pH balanced for valve covers...lol
Anyhow, on to the pics!
After a little scrubbin' and tough lovin'...I let it soak then used a white wall brush (worked GREAT!!!)
Drying from a nice coat of Wrinkle Black...
Hopefully tomorrow the trans will be hanging from the back and this pig will be in the engine bay. Here's to hoping!!
06-17-2013, 09:53 PM
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Small update...making progress slowly but surely.
Finished up the valve covers with wrinkle paint and am not thrilled how they turned out but it was user error, not the paint. I will probably slap another coat on them for uniformity purposes.
Got the glide thrown together for mockup and dropped in the car. Putting the mounts on the engine tomorrow and hooking it to the tranny to get the frame pads properly located.
Also for ***** and giggles I picked up the tires this weekend. I was doing a quick once over of the old cage when I was pulling the trans and it is not up to my current standards and abilities so I will be cutting it out this weekend and a 7.50s legal cage (or at least the foundation for such a set-up) will take its place. I figure I will at least get the 10 point cage in place so I am good to 8.50s. I am narrowing the rear frame rails and adding some tubing for a 25.3 chassis in the future. Something like this:
Anyway, here's the meats...
More to come tomorrow folks...trying to convince my wife I need a Holley HP EFI...lol
Finished up the valve covers with wrinkle paint and am not thrilled how they turned out but it was user error, not the paint. I will probably slap another coat on them for uniformity purposes.
Got the glide thrown together for mockup and dropped in the car. Putting the mounts on the engine tomorrow and hooking it to the tranny to get the frame pads properly located.
Also for ***** and giggles I picked up the tires this weekend. I was doing a quick once over of the old cage when I was pulling the trans and it is not up to my current standards and abilities so I will be cutting it out this weekend and a 7.50s legal cage (or at least the foundation for such a set-up) will take its place. I figure I will at least get the 10 point cage in place so I am good to 8.50s. I am narrowing the rear frame rails and adding some tubing for a 25.3 chassis in the future. Something like this:
Anyway, here's the meats...
More to come tomorrow folks...trying to convince my wife I need a Holley HP EFI...lol
06-18-2013, 09:09 PM
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Well, she's in the engine bay, but for some reason it's sitting crooked in there and for the exact reasons I do not gamble, I picked the wrong height mounts...too short. Not the end of the world...also a few interferences here and there. Just the standard annoying crap...
On a side note, I did make two big purchases today...should see them both some time next week - Fuel Injector Clinic injectors and a BW S400SX4-75mm turbo...she's slowly coming together!!!
More to come!
Dave
On a side note, I did make two big purchases today...should see them both some time next week - Fuel Injector Clinic injectors and a BW S400SX4-75mm turbo...she's slowly coming together!!!
More to come!
Dave
06-20-2013, 10:56 PM
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Well, she's in the engine bay, but for some reason it's sitting crooked in there and for the exact reasons I do not gamble, I picked the wrong height mounts...too short. Not the end of the world...also a few interferences here and there. Just the standard annoying crap...
On a side note, I did make two big purchases today...should see them both some time next week - Fuel Injector Clinic injectors and a BW S400SX4-75mm turbo...she's slowly coming together!!!
More to come!
Dave
On a side note, I did make two big purchases today...should see them both some time next week - Fuel Injector Clinic injectors and a BW S400SX4-75mm turbo...she's slowly coming together!!!
More to come!
Dave
06-20-2013, 11:06 PM
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Yuuuup! I believe I found it on a random forum, obviously some sort of FWD LS forum. It fits, but it might need some trimming.
Got the right mounts install but now I think the crookedness of the engine has something to do with the cross member being slightly offset. Going to attack in after work tomorrow....again.
Stay tuned!
Got the right mounts install but now I think the crookedness of the engine has something to do with the cross member being slightly offset. Going to attack in after work tomorrow....again.
Stay tuned!
06-26-2013, 06:33 PM
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Oh.....boy....
Fixed the twisting issue for the engine....trans doesn't line up with mount hole but my guess is because the BOP tranny was offset from the start. More measurements to come there.
Vette manifolds fit very well...thinking about how I will make them work. Might use a truck on the drivers side but that will make plug wires odd unless I firewall them all...lots to chew on. Taking my time...
Fixed the twisting issue for the engine....trans doesn't line up with mount hole but my guess is because the BOP tranny was offset from the start. More measurements to come there.
Vette manifolds fit very well...thinking about how I will make them work. Might use a truck on the drivers side but that will make plug wires odd unless I firewall them all...lots to chew on. Taking my time...
07-05-2013, 09:21 PM
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Here's a little update today...
First off I will start my post with a little rant. When I ship stuff I make sure that it is packed properly, meaning if it has a bunch of openings like the water pump I received today...then I either tape off all the holes or bag the damn thing before I pour 5 gallons of packing peanuts in the box with it. Makes it really easy to get them all out of the pump when you cna hear them crunching away as you spin it. Also, I like to clean off the old gaskets before sending something...feel like that is a common courtesy. That being said, here's he water pump I received today. For what I paid for it, I should have just gotten a new one...stupid me.
Now that that's out of my system I can continue on with the update...
I got a nice set of adapters from Dirty Dingo that allows the Fbody water pump with the truck accessory drive. It incorporates a vent tap in it for the steam vent.
Cleaned up balancer:
Here's a little project I wanted to do. Since I am not using power steering on my car (primarily a drag car with skinnies) I wanted to modify the truck PS bracket to give me maximum crossover pipe clearance. Here's the standard truck alt/PS bracket:
Initial trimming:
Ground and cleaned up to make it look a bit more purpose built:
Primed:
Aluminum painted with clear:
Mounted:
Just for ***** and giggles I slapped on the elbow and put on the tensioner. Balancer also installed:
Accessory drive will be something like this (pic courtesy of BMF_Racing):
First off I will start my post with a little rant. When I ship stuff I make sure that it is packed properly, meaning if it has a bunch of openings like the water pump I received today...then I either tape off all the holes or bag the damn thing before I pour 5 gallons of packing peanuts in the box with it. Makes it really easy to get them all out of the pump when you cna hear them crunching away as you spin it. Also, I like to clean off the old gaskets before sending something...feel like that is a common courtesy. That being said, here's he water pump I received today. For what I paid for it, I should have just gotten a new one...stupid me.
Now that that's out of my system I can continue on with the update...
I got a nice set of adapters from Dirty Dingo that allows the Fbody water pump with the truck accessory drive. It incorporates a vent tap in it for the steam vent.
Cleaned up balancer:
Here's a little project I wanted to do. Since I am not using power steering on my car (primarily a drag car with skinnies) I wanted to modify the truck PS bracket to give me maximum crossover pipe clearance. Here's the standard truck alt/PS bracket:
Initial trimming:
Ground and cleaned up to make it look a bit more purpose built:
Primed:
Aluminum painted with clear:
Mounted:
Just for ***** and giggles I slapped on the elbow and put on the tensioner. Balancer also installed:
Accessory drive will be something like this (pic courtesy of BMF_Racing):
Last edited by BanditDave; 07-05-2013 at 10:00 PM. Reason: Added pic.
07-05-2013, 09:30 PM
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Also started eyeballing where the crossover piping will go. I have to figure out a good way to mount the turbo...the S400SX4-75 is one heavy SOB!!!
As far as the driver's side crossover...pretty straightforward. Comes off the manifold, down under the Alt bracket in front of the balancer:
Passenger side is a little more elaborate. Comes off the manifold makes a U-turn down and s-turns back up to join with the driver's crossover. Will be ordering up tubing tomorrow.
That's it for now...jacked up my back a little today so I am hitting the sack early. More to come tomorrow!
As far as the driver's side crossover...pretty straightforward. Comes off the manifold, down under the Alt bracket in front of the balancer:
Passenger side is a little more elaborate. Comes off the manifold makes a U-turn down and s-turns back up to join with the driver's crossover. Will be ordering up tubing tomorrow.
That's it for now...jacked up my back a little today so I am hitting the sack early. More to come tomorrow!
08-18-2013, 09:36 PM
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Finally have an update after quite a while.
Build has taken a slightly different direction. For whatever reason I got tired of the big hood on the car and want to make this car as "sleeper" as possible with the turbo engine. Along that lines I picked up my wheels which will be painted body-color like the 14 inch originals. These are from late 70's Olds. They're 15x7 super stock III wheels.
They are in really good shape and perfect for the 255/60-15 MT drag radials I picked up a few weeks back. I just didn't want to deal with frame chopping and cutting the tires on the wheel well trim. More to come on their restoration.
The big news is that I FINALLY have the turbo mounted and can work on finishing the crossover piping. I tried several different turbo orientations and just could come up with something that let me keep the inner wheel wells. I was just going to abandon them but I wanted to drive this car a lot and didn't feel like hosing the engine down with road debris every trip.
I stepped away from it for a while and got to thinking about trying a different approach - shrink the radiator and go with a double pass. That will let me shove the turbo up farther and make room to get the downpipe up and over the wheel well and down under the car...yes, this car is getting a FULL 4" exhaust.
I am going to go with a 22"x19" double pass radiator from Jegs which will put the rad inlet and outlet right in front of the engine inlet and outlet. We will see how it handles cooling duties. I trimmed the upper radiator mounting bracket and will end up reconfiguring the passenger side top mount once I purchase the radiator. Should be some simple welding.
I made a really simple bracket to mount the turbo as well. Allows me to remove the crossover piping if I ever need to. Enjoy the pics...should be doing more work over the next week or so. Stay tuned.
Turbo Bracket
T6 Flange
Turbo Mounted
Build has taken a slightly different direction. For whatever reason I got tired of the big hood on the car and want to make this car as "sleeper" as possible with the turbo engine. Along that lines I picked up my wheels which will be painted body-color like the 14 inch originals. These are from late 70's Olds. They're 15x7 super stock III wheels.
They are in really good shape and perfect for the 255/60-15 MT drag radials I picked up a few weeks back. I just didn't want to deal with frame chopping and cutting the tires on the wheel well trim. More to come on their restoration.
The big news is that I FINALLY have the turbo mounted and can work on finishing the crossover piping. I tried several different turbo orientations and just could come up with something that let me keep the inner wheel wells. I was just going to abandon them but I wanted to drive this car a lot and didn't feel like hosing the engine down with road debris every trip.
I stepped away from it for a while and got to thinking about trying a different approach - shrink the radiator and go with a double pass. That will let me shove the turbo up farther and make room to get the downpipe up and over the wheel well and down under the car...yes, this car is getting a FULL 4" exhaust.
I am going to go with a 22"x19" double pass radiator from Jegs which will put the rad inlet and outlet right in front of the engine inlet and outlet. We will see how it handles cooling duties. I trimmed the upper radiator mounting bracket and will end up reconfiguring the passenger side top mount once I purchase the radiator. Should be some simple welding.
I made a really simple bracket to mount the turbo as well. Allows me to remove the crossover piping if I ever need to. Enjoy the pics...should be doing more work over the next week or so. Stay tuned.
Turbo Bracket
T6 Flange
Turbo Mounted
