Michael's Monte part II

[ProdigyCustoms]

WOW, what a difference a color change on the wheel makes! As some of you will remember, last year minutes before the Year One Experience Michael "kinda" finished his 86 Monte Carlo SS for the show. We had a great time with the car and Won the g body class, but the car was not what he wanted it to be yet. Little things were not done yet, and Michael put this one together as his daily driver and we used a bunch of parts we had laying around. The old 355 Small Block from our street racer was donated to the Monte. Well, it expired when the oil pump exploded "just cruising down the street"! So, the 4 bolt block was good and a forged 388 was built with a nice hydraulic roller to take advantage of the killer holley headed top end, probably making a solid easy 500 HP. It still has 250HP of NOS (2) stages of nitrous on top of it. Were looking for solid mid 10s on ET Streets.
We hated the original 200R4 from the minute he built the car, and after the second used tranny was dead, Michael said screw it and put one of our Prodigy Customs TKO 600 5 speed kits in it. Should have done it from the begining! Wow what a fun car to drive now! He also added some beautiful Cobalt gauges from our friends at Autometer and a Momo Millennium Steering wheel.



Other than some minor changes blacking out the grill and headlights, and adding a little graphic on the hood, the only exterior change was the wheels. We had originally used a set of all Forgeline 18 X 11 and 18 X 12 chrome ZX3Ps we had laying around from SEMA 2007. They were beautiful in chrome and looked OK, but something was missing. So we striped the chrome centers and painted them the same Magic black used on the top half of the car. WE LOVE IT! That is one thing that is so damn cool about 3 piece wheels, you can take them apart, make some changes and recreate the car!
So what was already a pretty cool daily driver is even cooler.
So here is the 2nd rendition

Maybe a bit more Nascarish? To it's heritage?

I just love the front tires and wheels

Everyone needs 4" of lip on the front wheel right? 18 X 11 and 285's on the front

And 6" lip of the rear wheels and 335s

Close up of the wheels and our custom Prodigy Customs 13" (6) piston Wilwood set up

Love Momo Wheels, and Cobalt gauges are killer

A little boom in the trunk

Gotta change the Air Cleaner lid

Old picture with chrome wheels

[Lil Bob]

Nice lookin car....

But aren't you suppose to have the NO2 bottle facing the other way, So that the "pick up tube" is in the NO2 under accel?

[Tony_SS]

I'm so glad you took my advice with blacking out the lights and grille.

Can't take credit for the wheels though! That added the final touch right there. Put a fork in it!

[ProdigyCustoms]

Nice lookin car....

But aren't you suppose to have the NO2 bottle facing the other way, So that the "pick up tube" is in the NO2 under accel?

Yeah, it will have to be a full bottle, 2 passes max per bottle. I suspect it will not get sprayed to often, it roast the hides at 40 MPH on motor right now!

[Young Gun]

Wow! props again for prodigy! michael has gotta love that thing! congrats on another amazing build!

[Vegas69]

Looks awesome!

[TPI Monte SS]

Awesome!!! Love the wheels/tires too. Any rubbing on the fronts when the wheel is cranked all the way in?

[parsonsj]

Great car! I love it.

My favorite parts are the power steering hoses.

jp

[ProdigyCustoms]

No rubbing up front, it rubs a little in the rear in hard corners full of weight, but in this busniss if your not rubbing your not trying hard enough! On thing is for sure, it will go around a croner with that TVS kit and all that tire.

[Samckitt]

Still love it, I think I like the chrome wheels a little more than the blacks. But hey, it is not my car to make the decision to. Still looks killer though.

[Hidro]

Wheels look alot better.
What electric cooling fans did you use? they look compact.

[JWilson]

I have lusted for an SS since they were new, and that looks killer. I think that I like the chrome wheels a little better as well, but when I get my own, I can put them on it. Until then, I will just enjoy Michael's.

Jason