Amazing build! Hats off to u sir! Let me make one comment...Id love to see this girl with a nasty drop visor...any thoughts?
The BlackBomber build thread.
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did some test fitting of the front sheetmetal to make sure everything lined up the way it should on the new frame and to check motor to hood clearance. Everything worked out the way it should.
Love this build...
not a huge update but I ordered this for christmas,
Underdash power booster from scotts hot rods,
and mocked it up as well as started fabbing up a trans tunnel. The section above the trans thats open right now will be removable for adjustments ext ext.
Underdash power booster from scotts hot rods,
and mocked it up as well as started fabbing up a trans tunnel. The section above the trans thats open right now will be removable for adjustments ext ext.
Awesome build!
Keep up the great work!
Keep up the great work!
anyway, been an a stressful week, ended up getting T-Boned in my daily driver this Tuesday on my way to work .so Ive been dealing with that and insurance companies and all that stuff. However did get some time to escape and work on the car a bit.
Used the english wheel to form a piece for the transmission tunnel that will be removable.
and I cut out part of the firewall to make a new/ cleaner piece,
however I messed up the beadroll, its tough doing all of this by yourself sometimes, So ill have to make another piece and try again,
Used the english wheel to form a piece for the transmission tunnel that will be removable.
and I cut out part of the firewall to make a new/ cleaner piece,
however I messed up the beadroll, its tough doing all of this by yourself sometimes, So ill have to make another piece and try again,
decided I wanted to do something different on the firewall. So I made a new piece that has the same contour as the passenger side. I will be shaving the blower motor and the fresh air vent. I will be running an aftermarket heater/AC box so I am going to set it up to come out the side rather than the front like stock.
bad ass build! you definitely have some talent! Subscribing!
Got some work done today despite the single digit temps, so no air tools.
cut the pedal face off the original 54 pedal and welded it to my new booster arm
also fabbed up a brace/mount for the pedal cluster.
lines up nice and will clear the column, I have to find a way to use the original floor mounted pedal with the new GM drive by wire pedal.
nice look up at the cluster, ignore the backside of the welds on the firewall, I will clean it up once I get the airtools again.
and I cleared off the junk on the otherside of the car so i snapped a few random shots.
im super happy with the lines of the car.
cut the pedal face off the original 54 pedal and welded it to my new booster arm
also fabbed up a brace/mount for the pedal cluster.
lines up nice and will clear the column, I have to find a way to use the original floor mounted pedal with the new GM drive by wire pedal.
nice look up at the cluster, ignore the backside of the welds on the firewall, I will clean it up once I get the airtools again.
and I cleared off the junk on the otherside of the car so i snapped a few random shots.
im super happy with the lines of the car.
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couple small things I did this weekend. Still waiting on steering parts.
Got about 2/3 of the firewall done. I ran out of sheetmetal so I have to go buy more this week so I can do the passenger side.
and shaved the wiper holes on the body, there is a piece of stainless that goes over it that will need to modified too but thats down the road.
Got about 2/3 of the firewall done. I ran out of sheetmetal so I have to go buy more this week so I can do the passenger side.
and shaved the wiper holes on the body, there is a piece of stainless that goes over it that will need to modified too but thats down the road.
Finished up the otherside of the firewall today. I'm also about half way though getting the steering linkage done, so ill post up a couple pics after im done.
Insert I made that was a mirror image of the other side.
and all done, I still have some metal work to do behind the motor that I'll take care of that when I send the motor out to get some goodies installed.
and what I started with.
Insert I made that was a mirror image of the other side.
and all done, I still have some metal work to do behind the motor that I'll take care of that when I send the motor out to get some goodies installed.
and what I started with.
Had another productive day today, got the steering column/linkage all squared away.
getting the angle for the support/bracket was fun. (ignore the welded steering shaft- its only for mockup and was made out of parts I had left over. I will order a new one)
I used the column/wheel out of the parts car because it was just about perfect, I will also be modifying the stock power-glide column shift to work with the 4L60e.
I also fit the factory inner fenders and roughed out the cuts for the suspension/modded frame.
I'm very happy with the engine bay so far, Now that the metal work is done for the most part I will turn my attention to the motor/front drive setup. I ordered a bunch of stuff that should be here this week.
getting the angle for the support/bracket was fun. (ignore the welded steering shaft- its only for mockup and was made out of parts I had left over. I will order a new one)
I used the column/wheel out of the parts car because it was just about perfect, I will also be modifying the stock power-glide column shift to work with the 4L60e.
I also fit the factory inner fenders and roughed out the cuts for the suspension/modded frame.
I'm very happy with the engine bay so far, Now that the metal work is done for the most part I will turn my attention to the motor/front drive setup. I ordered a bunch of stuff that should be here this week.
I have a F.A.S.T LSXRT manifold on the way, it's overkill for what i'm doing (ls6 heads/custom ground cam) but it's supposed to be good for 30hp or so over the stock manifold, The heads/cam/intake/headers should put the motor in the neighborhood of 400hp, however cosmetically its worth every penny. I cant stand to have that hideous stock manifold as the center of my engine bay.
looks great man! Love this thread!
Very cool, should be a great running motor.
And I agree, intake and FRC's or smoothed valve covers really help the look of the lsX style motors.
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coming along nicely! :beer:
got some more front drive parts on, Its a mutt of a setup, Right now it has a GTO a/c compressor, a cts/v crank pulley ( not pictured ), and a L77 caprice PS pump. I wanted to keep it all factory gm stuff, I also wanted it to tuck below the top of the motor as much as possible, the new setup will give me a ton more room up front of the motor for a fan or thicker radiator.
however now you can see the issues, the GTO stuff is about 5/8 offset compared to the new stuff (waterpump/ ps pump). You can also see how much it tucks back compared to the truck crank pulley.
after taking 2 steps back I was able to take 1 forward and get this to replace the stock truck intake, I have a set of upgraded heads that will flow better and raise the compression to make more power.
got lucky on the firewall too, no modification needed.
I am undecided if I wanna make the engine bay look like it was factory in which case I would leave the coilpacks on the motor or go more of a custom/bare bones look in which case I would re locate the coilpacks and possibly change the valve covers and do something custom.
with the coilpacks still on.
however now you can see the issues, the GTO stuff is about 5/8 offset compared to the new stuff (waterpump/ ps pump). You can also see how much it tucks back compared to the truck crank pulley.
after taking 2 steps back I was able to take 1 forward and get this to replace the stock truck intake, I have a set of upgraded heads that will flow better and raise the compression to make more power.
got lucky on the firewall too, no modification needed.
I am undecided if I wanna make the engine bay look like it was factory in which case I would leave the coilpacks on the motor or go more of a custom/bare bones look in which case I would re locate the coilpacks and possibly change the valve covers and do something custom.
with the coilpacks still on.
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