This page will showcase a few of the neat things I did on/got for the new engine.

This is the custom gauge setup I made for the center console (goes in the factory EQ hole). This is just an Autometer 3-hole aluminum panel, flipped upside down. The pic on the right shows the brackets I made from sheet aluminum to fit the panel in there. It fits like a glove!

One of the polished chambers on my ported & polished head. Shiny eh? On the right is a picture of when I was cc'ing the chambers.

This is my "tall" upper intake that I have ported out at the top for a '95 GT (60mm) throttle body, and also cleaned up and smoothed out on the inside. I painted it with wrinkle black paint for a little different look. The lower intake is done similarly, it is smoothed out on the inside and painted wrinkle black.

A baffle I welded into the oil pain to help control the oil a little better. Strangely enough, the factory pan from the '84 engine I'm rebuilding had a baffle like this from the factory, but the '88 TC pan I used on the engine did not, so I patterned this baffle after the factory one.

This is the custom windage tray I fabricated for my engine. It's made out of some stainless steel that I happened to have a big sheet of, and it turned out to be perfect for a windage tray.

The windage tray installed on the engine. There is also a crank scraper on the engine, under the windage tray.

This is my custom twin fan bracket I built to mount two 12" fans to my factory radiator. I don't like the "push lock" fittings you normally use with aftermarket fans, or the fact that you have to cut them off if you ever want to remove the fan(s), so this was my solution. I think it should work very nicely! Here's a litte interesting tidbit...this bracket, which I made out of bar stock, weighs 9 lbs with the fans on it. The stock plastic fan shroud with fans weighs 14 lbs! (now modified further, see page 3)

Phenolic spacer for the lower intake. I bought this from a guy on turboford. It's designed to lower temps in the intake manifold by blocking the factory water passage and insulating the intake from the heat of the cylinder head. It's a very nice item and was a steal for $37!

Here's my assembled and painted short block, waiting for the head to get done so it can be put on. In this picture you can see the 1/2" NPT fitting I welded to the oil pan for my oil drain. I decided to run my oil drain straight to the pan here rather than use the stock location, which isn't very easy to get to.

Head studs in.

Starting to come together!

The (dirty) empty engine bay waiting for the new engine.

Part of the way done.

Oil cooler, and custom built remote filter/oil thermostat/overflow bottle mount. I have since gotten rid of this whole setup because I cracked the remote filter mount. I ended up going back to a factory oil cooler because it really helps reduce the amount of time the oil takes to warm up to operating temps.

That's it for now, I might add more pics later...thanks for looking!