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Great progress!
Tired of doing body work so I did a little fab work. What are your thoughts? Something a little different, more for show than go.
Got tired of body work and went back to some fab work, making some bbc valve covers fit my ls.
I’m having a hard time finding a place for the coil packs, I ended up mounting them on the firewall, I don’t want to see them so I had to build a cover for them, between the cover and my valve covers I should be able to hide all of my wiring to keep motor looking real clean. My only concern is if emi will be a problem.
Redid exhaust tips and made covers which need cleaned and polished. I started making cold air intake with 5” pipe and covers for engine oil cooler and power steering cooler. Also installed new style hood latch out of a 2018 Silverado and striker out of 2018 traverse.
Beautiful job! I love it.
More updates finally, been doing body work (struggle), finally going to get painted in about a month, finished making close out panels for front, installed new style hood latch , latch out of 2018 Silverado, striker out of 2018 traverse, had to weld bottom to trunk lid to make straight, bought new calipers from z06, painted bottom of car with rapture, I did not like passenger door, did some digging and found some rust that previous guy had covered up when this project was started, had to replace most of bottom of door and installed new door skin, cleaned frame up and sent off to powder coat
Wow great work, it's looking good. If you want to feel better about how long you' been building this check the date I started mine. LOL Great job.
Great build. That firewall turned out amazing. What color are you going with?
Thanks for the compliment Motown 454, you definitely have been at it a lot longer than me. I have always had something fun to drive but this 5 year break is getting to me . Your car looks very nice, should be a blast to drive!
Alwhite 00 I’m going to paint it the same color as my drag car, I know that’s pretty lame but I love the color. Blue mist poly
Nice color.
coolest valve cover conversion i have seen yet! going to be a badass car.
Dig the color!
Impalaman1 thanks for compliment, I think it should look pretty good when done, it hides the injectors and all the wiring. The motor should look real clean when done.
I’m finally getting to put some stuff together for the last time hopefully. Put almost all of the drivetrain together except for trans, waiting on torque converter and have to finish painting trans. I milled the trans pan to get rid of logo and to make it so I can sand ribs after base coat to give it color contrast . All the suspension is UMI stage 5 kit and brakes are Kore 3 ZO6. Motor is my own 416 with Wegner supercharger, cam and drive kit. Trans will be 4l80e with parts from Jakes performance. Torque converter is from Protorque. Rear end is a regular 9 inch with trutrac and 35 spline axles from Moser. The body should be off anytime now to get painted. I ordered wheels from Boze, they said 6-8 weeks. With any luck I should be able to at least take it for a cruise later this fall. (Fingers crossed)
WOW WOW WOW fantastic
Thanks Cobraace2.
Looking great so far. Mine is Mist Blue from the factory. Your's looks like a shade between Mist and Marina blues. I like it, not too light or too dark!
Very nice build!
I like the BBC valve covers.
What are you doing to the trans pan?