Wow it’s been awhile since I posted on tech!

So around 7 years ago I bought a pretty nice roller out the classifieds section. 2000 Ws6 with a 10 point cage, moser 12 bolt, wilwood brakes, Madman rear suspension, Afco Dbl adj shocks, etc etc. But I met a girl and kids started coming.. you know the song and dance.

Well I’m done hauling this thing and all the parts everywhere. This winter it’s getting done 🥶

Here comes the pics!

 

When I got the car, the interior wasn’t in, and there wasn’t a single brake line in the car. I installed the strange manual master cylinder, a solenoid for line lock, and hand bent new brake lines for the entire car. Pretty pumped with how they turned out.

Got a leak by the line lock but besides that, everything seems to be holding 🤞

 

Gutted the dash, painted the cage, and got the interior mostly back in the car. I’ll take pictures later. Couldn’t find them in my phone.
Cut the core support and built some pretty unique mounts for the double pass griffin radiator. I filled and smoothed most all the holes in the engine bay and cut out a bunch of metal. I welded in bar support for the headlight area. Just didn’t trust it after all the cutting I had made.

Also chopped out the wiper cowl and welded in some sheet metal to fill everything in.

Painted the engine bay and sat everything in. I’m no body guy but I’m happy with how it turned out

 

That’s all I had managed to finish up to a couple weeks ago. I had bought the car in 2012.

But over that time I had gathered a **** load of stuff. Borg s480 from Jose. Dual walbro pumps, nasty performance duel system, JGS 50mm gate, 50mm bov, full Frozen boost a2w setup, motor sensors, gaskets, seats for the car, etc etc.

don’t have pics of everything but here’s a couple old ones and one of my wife doing valve springs lol

 

Now we are to current day two weeks ago. I ordered some 14awg 2.5” bends (should have done 2.25 with this 5.3 but it’ll be fine), v bands...

ok I ordered a **** load of stuff that still isn’t here. I won’t bore ya with the specifics but lots of mandrel bends and a Holley Terminator X setup. I own EFI live and have the harness/pcm... and customer operating systems on factory pcm s have always worked for me... but I just really want to see what the hype is about.


now for the pics of the turbo build currently in progress (and my home made tig torch stand) 🤙

 

Building the merge.

 

Merge and manifolds done. So you know what time it is... the crossover

 

 

Yes.. I have no stress relief in the crossover. I built a car in 2007-2008 that i had done the same on. It’s been through 5 owners and not a single issue with cracking. If it does, I mean, I own a welder 🤷dum♂️



Rolling my eyes at the wife

 

And the intercooler is mounted!

Intercooler bracket

 

Waiting on my 2”, 3”, and 4” bends from Columbia River at the moment to fab in the waste gate, cold side, and down pipe. Little bummed because fitting pipe is about my favorite part of the whole project!

I had given my 255lph walbros away. One to the wife’s grandpa and another to a friend doing a swap. I cut the fuel basket open to find a pretty nice Racetronix pump... but I don’t even know when this car last ran. I put the Racetronix pump on the shelf (might use it for a nitrous stand alone in my truck) and out a walbro 450 in the car.

My knee is pretty banged up today but I’m going to try to run some fuel line and maybe mount the fuel tank. Pics on that later.

Here is the truck I put together earlier this year in hope to motivate me to finish the car... it worked! 😁

 

Fuel tank in the car. Rails mounted up. Haven’t ran the fuel lines to the back of the car yet. The clamps sent with the fuel system from Nasty Performance are way too small and will smash the fuel line. I’ll have to go to Napa tomorrow and try to pick something else up.



9 clamps included to run 40ft of fuel line 🙄 lol. And they ain’t even the right size!

 

nice, but lets talk about that truck

 

very nice

 

. It’s nothing special! Lol. 4.8 with cam/full bolt ons/nitrous. Still fun though! And it gets looks! Wife hates it 😂

 

Awesome build! I'm going to follow along on this one. WS6 is going to be my next project.

 

Stayed up late last night drinking all the beer in the fridge. Buttoned up the fuel system finally (I hate being under vehicles so that stuff always takes me longer).

Columbia River didn’t send all the bends I needed cuz they were out of stock, so I didn’t get it get fancy with the cold side piping but it will work.

Still need to do the wastegate piping and downpipe. But I’m getting closer!






oh and FYI... Aluminized steel Tig welds like total dog ****. Buy mild or stainless if your going to tig it. If your using mig, the aluminized welds fine.

 

Simple and effective. I dig it.

 

Very nice. Builds like this make me wish I knew how to weld. I cant wait for boosted v8 noises.

 

Not a lot of progress. Work gets busy when it’s starts to get cold outside. Not to mention my body is falling apart this month so I’m gunna have to go see the dr. Back is screwed up. Knee screwed up. Foot screwed up

I did get most the downpipe done. Drilled and tapped the ls6 intake for a thread IAT sensor. Started laying the Holley harness on the motor to figure out how I wanna route it.

Waiting on a ls3 style starter and heat shield so I can finish running the 4” down under the car

Turns out 4” is a bit.trickier to cut and fit 😅

Took a 90 and a few cuts to jog it around everything and get it going over the tower

More fit up

Drilled and tapped intake for iat


Downpipe is nearly finished