Got it running Friday, February 11,2005, after 4 1/2 months of working on it. Idles with a slight lope, but running strong! Installed an intake with filter fabricated from pre bent tubing. The exhaust consists of a PaceSetter 4-1 header, 2 1/4" Catco Cat, 2 1/4" X 35" Thrush Magnum Glasspack, Dynomax 2 1/4" Welded UltraFlow muffler and all mandrel bent tubing welded up and installed by myself. Installed the GM front(24mm, '03 FE2) and Adco(1"/25.4mm) rear sway bars. Also installed the GM front strut tower brace and the Vibrant Performance rear strut tower brace. Fabricated my own front subframe connector.
Rear view while being worked on.
View from the other side.
You can see the
Crane Gold Race Roller Rockers and the bored throttle body.
These were taken during last Florida Winter!
As you can see I fabricate as much as I can with the limited tools that I have.
I've had the tranny rebuilt with heavy duty clucthes and band, shift kit, torque converter, 3.08 gears(3.43:1 effective w/underdrive chain) and Phantom Grip Limited Slip Differential
Conversion.
I made my own rear axle brace from steel tubing and Heim Joints to reduce rear axle flex.
Much more work to do, not enough time to do it all!
The
Autometer Sport Comp Fuel Pressure Guage.
Some crazy art work done for me!
New camera and pics. I now have a Z24 spoiler and 16" Z24 wheels.
Here's how the engine looks now.
Just recently installed a Yank 3000 rpm stall torque converter
Yank on top, a stock 2560 rpm stall on botom.
Getting ready to go in, after the rain strom.
