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