Project Lethal Induction

[ChevelleNV]

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to introduce you all to my new project ‘Lethal Induction’, I found this car on ebay about 5 months ago and was basiclly a Pro Street/Drag Car for a ridiculously low price. In fact the price was so low I thought it was a scam from the start. And because the car was 2000 miles away I had no way to see if this was a real deal.

Luckily my best friends dad who is a gear head lived about 20 miles from the car and was able to go and inspect the car for me. I knew the car being from Georgia it would have rust, but I basically bought the car for the engine. A full race prepped 420 cubic inch SBC with Callies Stealth Crank, Crower Rods, J&E Pistons, Brodix Heads with Titanium Valves and a custom ground Solid Roller cam making 750HP at the flywheel.
I have to say I was very nervous from the start, but the car was what the seller stated and now I have some great pieces to start my new project with. And as it turns out the car was originally from califorina so there wasn’t as much rust as I expected (but we will see after the body is media blasted)

Ben Hermance did an awesome job visualizing my project, and my hat goes off to him for his hard work on this.

Current plans call for adding fuel injection to the 420 small block with a much more street-able camshaft and lower stall converter, I am still on the fence for which EFI system I am going to use and am looking for some input on the project so feel free to speak up and give me some input.

I have almost finished tearing the car apart and will be sending it off to be media blasted in the next few weeks, once I get it back from being stripped I will be passing the car off to a local metal fabricator who has done a number of cars for a buddy of mine and his work is top notch to put his magic touches on the car.

While the body is off I will be taking the frame and boxing in the frame rails and adding the suspension (DSE), brakes (wilwood 13 inch rotors) and the rack and pinion.
I will post up some more info as I nail down all the details.



Some pictures before I tore it all apart...













There are a lot more pictures up at http://gallery.me.com/chevellenv

[WS6]

The rendering looks great. I would think about not putting the SS on the back. It sticks out and is the only badge on the car which only makes it stick out more. maybe paint it black or gray to help hide it. Regardless, welcome and keep adding pictures. We love pictures. Good luck.

For EFI, I like adapting the factory LSx PCM. You can do so cheaply compared to buying a FAST system if you're willing to do some things yourself and buy parts used. None of this scares me so that's why I like using it. It's a very good system and so is the FAST system.

[ChevelleNV]

Ya, the SS emblem in the rendering will more than likely not get put on the car, Ben had to work with some existing photos of another Chevelle for my project and I missed asking him to remove it. there will be no emblems on the car. I Might however be doing something in the side stripe. but wont make any decisions until i get primer on the car.

[Motown 454]

Very nice project. It will be fun to watch. I like the rendering,and the stripes look great.

[CruizinKev]

very nice project! rendering looks good - love the color but I'm kinda biased

[WS6]

You could maybe paint on the SS emblems. Ghost them even. I think that would be subtle but good.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

thats gonna be siiiick!

[ChevelleNV]

So I made a little progress this weekend, been real busy and havent had much time in the last couple of weeks to really do anything. but I managed to finally pull the body off the frame and should be dropping it off to be stripped later this week.












I Really wanted to go for a drive ...

I was suprised how easily the body came off, had no issues with rusted/busted bolts which is a plus in my book. so hopefully in a few weeks I should have the shell back and in primer..

[ChevelleNV]

I have a large amount of parts from the car, that i wont be using in the new build for sale, if anyone is interested the list is here http://www.chevelles.com/forums/show...50#post2765950

[ChevelleNV]

Well I didnt get the car off to get media blasted yet, because I realized when I got it back I was going to have to get my rotisserie built so I could shoot some primer on it. so I started building a rotisserie.

I know I could have bought one, but I wanted to save a few bucks and needed to break in the new welder and get some practice doing mig welding. since its been about 20 years since I have really done any welding.

so here's a few pics of the build so far, should have most of it finished by this weekend.

[ProdigyCustoms]

Love the rendering. Looks Baddass. Based on your parts list we can be a lot of help and save you some real money

[ChevelleNV]

Actually Frank, I do plan on calling you when I get closer to needing parts.

[ChevelleNV]

hmm... not sure what the deal is with the images. they were there when i posted up. ill move them to one of my websites and fix the links so everyone can see them.

[ChevelleNV]

ok, i fixed the image links...

[cl08]

Love the color, not to happy with the stripes (.02)

LOVE the render though going to be a sweet shovell!!!!

[wellis77]

Great looking rendering. Should be a sweet ride when done.

[HotWhls]

I am curious where in nevada are you from. It looks like the pictures are from the Reno area. I just assumed nevada since thats what the plate on the front says. I am also from the reno area...

[ChevelleNV]

Actually I'm In Carson City..but close enough

[HotWhls]

Oh nice thats actually where I am from to. I work in reno live in CC. Are you doing all the work yourself and who is doing the paint and stuff for you. I had a chevelle that was in CC that I just sold at barrett-Jackson in LV last year and now I am onto a new 66 Nova project.

[ChevelleNV]

I am doing most of the work myself, I am fortunate enough that I have access to a paint booth, so when it comes time for paint I will be shooting it myself with some assistance from a veteran painter.