Progress Thread The Only Part Of A Chevy You Don't Have To Tow (until Now), Into An Sn95.

tannerc91gt

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I goofed up and deleted the previous thread. Turned out to actually be a few interested people so I'll try and get this thread up to speed.

Car is a 1998 GT with cobra bumpers and an R hood.
Was a turbo 5.4/th400 car I bought as a roller.
6pt cage
Built rear with an ARB and a custom fuel tank
Coilovers in the front
PA racing tubular k
And some other odds and ends
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Out with the old

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Let the tear down begin!
Car was an oily, greasy mess with modular harness strung out everywhere.
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Engine bay degreased and flaming river manual rack installed.
Cleaned up the rear and pulled the fuel tank
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Then I picked up this
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06 LQ4 6.0 short block, Ls2 style rods/pistons
Pistons are fly cut for ptv clearance
Clevite 77 rod bearings
Arp rod bolts
Arp head bolts
Arp balancer bolt
Melling oil pump
Asp aluminum balancer
Ls2 hd timing chain
Thunder racing trex cam .242/.248 duration at .050 .608/.612 lift 110lsa
Ls7 lifters
Comp one piece pushrods
Patriot extreme gold .660 lift valvespring kit with titanium retainers
853 casting ls1 heads milled .065
Heavily ported on intake and exhaust ports with polished combustion chamber.
Engine is 11.6:1 compression and pump gas friendly.
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Painted the bay and test fit the long block.
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Got my exhaust. Custom 1 7/8 primaries with 3.5" collectors with v-bands into a 3" x pipe
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Also got my trans and converter
FTI built TH400 with a RM valve body and transbrake. Should be good for 1,000.
They also built a custom billet 9" 4,700 stall converter for me. Highly recommend these guys.
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TCI flexplate let me put it all together and wrestle it into the car
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Hung all my f-body accessories and hung the exhaust after cutting and rewelding my UPR mounts.
 
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A little off topic but I ended up taking a day to build a decent work bench so my work space wasn't so depressing. 1000x better
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It's temporarily back on the ground and I had it pushed out while I did some other things
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Got my F-body radiator and transcooler hung as well as my fans
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Waiting on my fabbed valve covers Monday and im swapping the stock tensioner out for a katech unit to battle the slippage.
I drew out my fuel system and bought my alt pigtail to wire that up.
I'll be using the Holley HP EFI system so I've got the software on my laptop and have started getting a feel for it and building my base.
Essentially waiting on a fuel system, my FAST 4150, driveshaft and my holley and I'll be rolling.
These next couple days off I'm gonna try and tackle my flaking paint and breathe some life back into these wheels for now. Car would look great with a fatter tire on it but I'll have to be patient on that.
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OMG I cant believe you are destroying that cloned Cobra. Just pure sacreligious.










Bet those rims would look good with a quick polish. They actually dont look too shabby.
 
Should have quite a few more parts on the porch when I get home from work in the morning. Gonna put the new valve covers on and see how it looks but I've been trying to find a localish powdercoater to do my intake and VCs, possibly a set of wheels. Maybe a few other odds and ends if it's cheap enough.
Anyone have anything against getting some coil over springs done? Any Ill effects?
 
Cant we lock this thread and ban the OP? Just aint right.











Are you going to use stock VC's? I know someone who used aftermarket tall VC's to try and fool the masses about the engine type. Got caught by an older lady and the jig was up.
 
The wheels..... Well nevermind.
Really don't care for them myself. They've got a buyer as soon as I decide on a rear tire size and buy my wheels.

Unfirtunately I'm out of cheap parts to buy. The rest are big ticket items.$1,500 ecu, $1,500 wheels/tires, $540 TB, and hopefully just $600 for my fuel system. No clue on the driveshaft. So progress has slowed. We're gonna take a weekend vacation in may so I've moved some money towards that. Otherwise there's just a lot of little stuff to get lined out.
 
Are you going to use stock VC's? I know someone who used aftermarket tall VC's to try and fool the masses about the engine type. Got caught by an older lady and the jig was up.
I hate these valve covers. Should have a set of fabbed covers on my porch right now. Deciding whether I'll have some of it powdercoated or not.

Accufab makes the 4150 bodies for a FAST. Accufab offers 3-4 color choices whereas FAST offers...red. BUT the FAST TB flows 150 more cfm for like $20 less so color be damned that's what I'm using. Got my cable coming so I can fit that as well as a new dipstick and the pigtail to wire my alt.
I had problems with my belt configuration and slack. Modified the GM tensioner I bought and it didn't cure the problem so I picked up a Katech tensioner that should do the trick. Sucks to pay $119 for a belt tensioner but slippage is apparently a big issue the other way
 
I had my valve covers done by a guy named Sean from custom functionz he's located in Maryland 150 for a set of covers.
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I caught those in your thread, and I think that's exactly what I'd go with.

On a side note I have always had a hard time taking any business or product seriously that replaced the S with a Z
 
Yeah but he's a great guy haha I think I'm gonna have him do my wheels black with a copper flake in the powder that's gonna be 350 with the tires off 400 with tires on