engine in, trans mount made, trans in, turbo kit bolting in etc

engine and trans installed, converter bolted up, made a trans mount in 2 minutes, photos of oil pan clearance, and started bolting the turbo kit in.

8.8 rear installed and some other fun

boxed the control arms, new welder is awesome, 8.8 installed with help from Corey O'Brien and test fitted a wheel, getting some used 255/60/15s mounted this week to drop it on the ground, i have to replace all the brake lines, none of the bitches survived lol, better get a newer disk brake master cylinder while im at it. pretty exciting!

swapped out the dyno brakes today

replaced the brakes on the dyno today after 11 years or so, quite a bit of wear when you compare to the new pads! working great and ready for the dyno day this saturday!

built 370 in the truck!

slapped the truck together, with the built bottom end, 317 heads and got it running again with the same small turbo, its so out of breath is basically capped at 550whp, i ordered a larger turbo and we are waiting to get that in! i am hoping for 800whp on pump fuel!

fairmont 4 update, shifter and other things installed almost ready

shifter installed and working, fans wired to ECU and working, almost ready, just waiting on the gas tank to get finished wich my friend is doing, he said it should be done this weekend.

troys truck trans swap and more

todays adventures, truck 2ft up on jackstands, methanol kit installed, 60e out, 80e in, crossmember modded/installed, fuel pump installed/tested, trans lines done, driveshaft getting dropped off at associated, and we even delivered the LS1 and t56 to its new owner, all before 5pm

plasma cut off the stock mount, flipped the crossmember, welded it on flipped and it fit perfect, like it was meant to be haha

Truck updates

ran today on stock injectors after downpipe was done, only have a few small things then ill be running it on the 80s and speed density tomorrow, then hopefully everything for the 80e comes in this week and i can do the 80e swap on my friends lift, and do the 400lph in the tank on the lift too, on the weekend. i think we might see some positive manifold pressure tomorrow... ill take it easy on the 60e and stock pump.

meth kit!

i had a partial meth kit laying around and a friend of mine had a spare snow performance 3 qt container, so i installed that today! excited to turn up the boost now!

permanent wideband and IAT sensor finally

finally wired this thing in permanently to the key, so it wont kill the battery, also wired the output into the ECU and got that working, also mounted it in a blank spot of the dash!

Finally... IAT installed in egr plug haha, i was nervous about the sensor coming out or moving under boost, drilled a hole, put the sensor inside, covered in rtv, and put a small hose clamp on it so it cant move or get pulled/blown out hahaha then RTV'd the plug walls, and hammered it down with a socket.

Extended my lowers and installed the rear

Extended my lowers and boxed them. Got the rear in and car driving.

8.8 swapped out to anther 8.8 and some other ramblings

malibu runs, and cools!

after getting all the hoses and radiator and etc to fit i got a fan from the junkyard, a 2 speed ford fan with a cowl and everything works awesome! fired the car and let it idle for almost 30 minutes and it took a while to heat up the coolant in the block even without the fan on, then just turning the fan on low speed it was able to easily cool the motor down to about 180f (stock tstat with 2 very small holes drilled in it) pretty happy with that! on top of the rear not being a drop in i figured i would go the 8.8 swap route so me and corey pulled a disk brake rear end out of the junkyard for this pig, and i bought swap upper A arms for it. very excited to have this go in.

got some parts for the malibu today

radiator, transgo kit, wideband, fuel pump, vbands and 2 fuel fittings 

studded my 6.0

tonight i threw in my chinese head studs into this painted pretty junkyard 6.0
getting ready to pickup the surprise next project car saturday morning, here are some shots of the pretty head stud install process