89 'Mullet Ride /Jack of All Trades' RS

[HellPhish89]

You guys can choose what you like better: Jack of All Trades or Mullet Ride..lol.

Well... thought it was about time to post up my pos


Engine bay painting with the Eastwood ceramic paint. First time painting and yes.. I realize its not perfect. The K-member will end up replaced so it didnt get masked.:















I snapped off all the trans mount cross member bolts in the frame rail. To fix that... Chop, Cut, Rebuild..har har har..:



Refinished a couple sway bar brackets and K-Member brackets. Wish I had a sandblaster for that one... oi. Oh, sorry about the iPotato quality on these:







Then I thought... brakes. Hmm.. lets try to make a bracket that would allow the use of CTSV Brembos with a 13" rotor. Ultimately, I gave this up as between larger wheels and tires or 2 piece rotors, custom brackets, etc... the price difference was 20 bucks...lol. The 'first draft' bracket was looking promising. I modified the stock spindle by cutting off the original mounting ears and doing some massaging/stress relieving with an angled die grinder. I think with a little more time and effort it; could work safely.








Front brake on passenger side as it is now (CTS-V OEM, Kore3 Medium Duty Hub, Bigbrakeupgrade.com modified and powder coated spindles, BBU's custom stainless line, BBU OEM Brembo bracket, etc:




Updates will include:
Engine assembly: LQ4 .020 over, LS3 heads, L76 intake, 42lb injectors, Holley 90mm TB, LS7 takeout cam (211/230 ~.550/550 with 1.7 rockers), LS2 heavy duty single roller chain.

Turbo Kit Build: Stock GN TB0348 turbos, modified stock manifolds, Treadstone TT Mustang Intercooler (twin in, single out), Turbosmart EBoost Street, and some other bits.

Exhaust: Custom true duals that I am going to somehow tuck under the car, Huayra'esc resonators, a bunch of ovalized tubing, etc

Hood modifications: building functional airbox to work with cowl and 3 hood vents (center 2014 vent plus 2 hex vents) to relieve engine bay air pressure.

Replacement Steering shaft: Flaming River/Borgeson collapsible steering shaft

and the one I hope doesnt take long to be able to install:

Stand alone retrofit of an 08+ MRC. This is the big one for me and is why I have not gotten shocks better than KYB AGX's. This car is literally going to be a jack of all trades car. The intent of the MRC is to have a suspension I can do any sort of racing I desire and have the car adapt mostly on its own. Drag strip Saturday, AutoX Sunday, Summit Point or VIR the next weekend, and an ORR whenever I feel like it. Infinity adjustable shocks with a laptop to tune. Yes, please.

Aero will be another part of the whole. the engine bay first with a belly pan, a splitter of some sort, flat bottom on either side of the d/s tunnel and somehow someway.. a working diffuser that may or may not include a pseudo EBD aspect. Right now though.. that is just pie in the sky thinking.

Some bits I didnt take pictures of yet are the cleaned up and painted steering box, new steering linkage bits (I really do wish rack and pinion would be a feasible option. Those steering boxes are heavy and puts a lot of weight in a really strange place. Also, I dont have pictures of the balljoint replacement and shady press fixturing, front control arm 'resto', and moog heavy duty front spring install (700lb/in rate, rears are 107lb/in rear).

Enjoy.

[HellPhish89]

Steering Shaft Replacement:

The shaft came as a 21 inch collapsed/27 inch expanded piece with 3/4" DD/1"DD. Here is the Flaming River/Boregeson setup cut down, dimpled, and test fit.:






Enjoy

[68firebird]

Is this a camaro? got any "before" pics?

[HellPhish89]

unfortunately i do not. wasnt much to look at anyways..lol. it is a camaro =p.