Project Fool's Gold

[WS6]

same Buster that started Grand Muffler and made them into the amazing exhaust shop they used to be?

Car looks great Tommy. What size wheels are those up front?

[craigs73]

love this project i hope you stick with the paint scheme on this because i really like it good work

[PARKERRS]

same Buster that started Grand Muffler and made them into the amazing exhaust shop they used to be?

Car looks great Tommy. What size wheels are those up front?

Same guy Douglas V. "Buster" Smith, He now works out of a shop behind his house in Hiram, Georgia and goes by Exotic Exhaust. One of the few backyard shops you will see with a cnc mandrel tubing bender, mig, tig, and other assorted benders. The guy is really an artist and knows his stuff when it comes to headers. He builds headers for road race, funny car, street cars and anything in between.

The wheels are 18x10 with a 6.125 backspace and 275 series rubber.

[David Sloan]

Hey Tommy
the cars looking good!! keep the updates coming.
Hey are you guys going to come over for the event in may?
https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=53213
Stop by an see us on your way to Thunder Valley.

[Bow Tie 67]

Tommy,

Damm those front tires, what size are they? I'm guessing Huge x Large!! will you loose a little turning radius?

The car is looking killer. ;)

[PARKERRS]

Front tires are 275/45-18 on a 10 inch wheel, shouldn't loose any turning radius since DSE designed the sub-frame for this wheel/tire combo.

David I should be there for the event with the gray car. I'll try and stop by next time I come to Cartersville.

[796spdbu]

Tommy,
First off truely amazing project.You picked a cool color for the car,the rendering is a great piece also!Love the wheels.

Secondly,do the guys at thunder vallet still have the 57' chevy "shop truck" aorund? It was green with a white roof, grille and bumpers. I saw a small pic of it in Truckin magizine last year or the year before. It had 18" and 20" torq-thrusts. If they do is there any way you could get me a few pics of that truck. Thanks Greg.

[PARKERRS]

Sorry Greg they sold that shop truck a couple of years ago. They built another last year but it was sold to a customer before it even reached completion, it was a '65 stepside.

[796spdbu]

Its cool Tommy,Iwas just wanting to see pics of it.It was one of my favorite 57' trucks. Thanks.

[JEFFTATE]

Looks Good Tommy !
It's nice to see it on the world wide screen !

[HectorM52]

Any updates?

[PARKERRS]

Coming soon. I've been building the engine for the last week or so in the evenings so pics of that are coming. I should button it up tonight, was waiting on a few small parts that came in yesterday.

[Motown 454]

The car is looing real good.

[PARKERRS]

I finished assembling the Ls2 Stroker today finally. Chasing small parts took time, the engine came from an '07 vette with 80 miles on it. The owner swapped to an LS7 and in the process they canibalized several things from this engine to convert the 7 over to a wet sump oiling system. Those were the things I've had to figure out and get during assembly.

Hopefully this engine will push hard at 600hp if not exceed it. The crankshaft is a 4" stroker Callies Dragonslayer.





It was installed using Federal Mogul main bearings and ARP stud kit with 12pt nuts. The rods are Callies Compstar with ARP 2000 rod bolts and were installed with Clevite 77 bearings which are polydyne coated. This crank has a 2" crankpin rather than the standard 2.100" so that notching the block is not neccessary. I'm also using the 58x reluctor and 4X cam gear since these are supposed to allow for smoother and more exact ignition tuning.





The block was decked so that the pistons are .010 above the deck. The LS2 factory pistons are usually .007 out and when it was mocked up after honing with torque plates for the new pistons they were .004 below the deck. So I had the machine shop cut .014 from the deck surfaces. This should give me 11:1 compression assembled with the heads I chose. The pistons are Wiesco -8cc dish coated and the rings are perfect circle, chrome moly top, napier second, and a support rail on the oil ring since the pin gets into that ring land.





The cam is a comp cams grind, special ground for me from specs given by Vengeance racing here in Atlanta. Lift is 620 int. and 625 exhaust, duration is in the 230 and 240's range. The cam chain is C5R and the oil pump is a GMPP high volume. The heads I chose are Trick Fow Specialties 225 CNC with 65cc chambers.








Heads were installed with ARP studs and 12pt nuts. The gaskets are GM 6.0 3 layer MLS type.





I finished up with Comp lifters, Trick Flow push rods and Yella Terra shaft type rockers. The damper will be an ATS which I only have the hub on in the pics. It goes with the Vintage Air front runner which is black anodized. I installed the factory valve covers for now since the engine is going in the car for final mock up and header fabrication. They will be replaced with a set of Katech covers and coil relocation brackets during final car assembly. That is when the intake, injectors and Fast fuel rails will also be installed. The intake is a Fast 92mm ported by Vengeance and the throttle body is the stock fly by wire 90mm also ported by vengeance. The oil pan is 4th gen. f-body with an improved racing trap door baffle installed.








Hopefully I'll get the flywheel, clutch assmbly, bellhousing and trans mounted and the entire unit slid in the car this week. We'll see, keep your fingers crossed for me.

[Bow Tie 67]

Sa-Weet!

[Ron S]

Wow Tom, that engine just engine just screams MONEY.With the Trick Flow's, that thing should fly.Ron

[Hotwire]

Wow Tom, that engine just engine just screams MONEY.With the Trick Flow's, that thing should fly.Ron

No doubt!

Tom, is the plastic intake going to match the heads w/ the head decked that much? I know there's some room between the intake and the valley pan, just not sure how much.

[PARKERRS]

The heads weren't cut, only the block was decked. .014 isn't a lot of material really, no more than if you had a damaged head and cut it to clean the surface up. The intake shouldn't present any problems.

[PARKERRS]

Wow Tom, that engine just engine just screams MONEY.With the Trick Flow's, that thing should fly.Ron

I got some killer deals on parts with the economy like it is. I've still got less in it than a crate LS7, even with the initial purchase price of the take out. There are still parts that came from the engine I can sell to help offset the new stuff when it's all said and done too. You should be familiar with those tricks Ron, You've pulled off some killer horse trading and deals on the Mustang yourself. LOL

[Ron S]

I've got to say I'm a little jealous,you've got alot of the parts I want,I think the combo's that you picked are truely the best of whats avalible.Should be a nice contrast from the silver car,interested in your driving impressions between the two.Ron