So, the car was nicknamed "Vanilla Ice" one night when a few friends opened the garage and saw my white on white 89 vert sitting there.
I traded for the car just before christmas.
I traded straight across for this
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The car has the following mods
Stock 93 motor from SSP car with oil cooler
Stock 93 T-5 with centerforce clutch.
BBK Springs
BBK Upper and lower control Arms
Subframe connectors
6 pt cage welded into subframes
95 front spindles/rotors/calipers with stainless lines
5 lug rear axles with drum brakes
Auburn posi with 31 spline shafts and 3.73's
17" bullits with 245 fronts and 275 rears
BBK CAI
MAC short tube unequal length headers
MAC O/R H-pipe
MAC 2.5" catback
And that is all i can think of.
Immediate plans started today. I started prep work on my block that is going to the machine shop monday.
Its getting a .030" bore and cleaned up. The machine shop is going to machine the crank .030" also and assemble the stock rods and hyper pistons.
Using moly rings.
Its getting an E cam if the one i have is any good, or an X cam if i have to buy one.
GT-40 heads off of my 94 cobra and ford explorer intake.
The motor is a temporary motor. I'm headed to san diego in march for about a year and upon return i plan to build a 408w for it. I'm not going to get into specifics on it, because its a long time out.
The trans is going to stay stock until i put the 408 in, and at that point with get built with Astro's parts to handle around 500 ft/lbs
I have no plans for the rear end at all.
On the front end i plan to upgrade to 99+ calipers and call it a day.
I want to put 99+ front seats in it, and do a rear seat delete.
It also needs some typical things that a 20 year old car needs, the top needs replaced(if anyone has done this, can you give me a rough idea of cost) and it needs a weather stripping kit.
I'll try to update this as the motor build progresses. The motor will be in the car by the middle of February.
Here are some pictures of the car.
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Here are few pics of my block and crank waiting to go to the machine shop(my prep work consisted of cleaning out the head bolt holes, popping out the soft plugs, radiusing the oil holes, and gasket matching the oil pump feed hole)
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As with any project, i am always open to suggestions.
Along with the motor, i am going 24lb injectors, new maf and 255 fuel pump.
I traded for the car just before christmas.
I traded straight across for this
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View attachment 273548
The car has the following mods
Stock 93 motor from SSP car with oil cooler
Stock 93 T-5 with centerforce clutch.
BBK Springs
BBK Upper and lower control Arms
Subframe connectors
6 pt cage welded into subframes
95 front spindles/rotors/calipers with stainless lines
5 lug rear axles with drum brakes
Auburn posi with 31 spline shafts and 3.73's
17" bullits with 245 fronts and 275 rears
BBK CAI
MAC short tube unequal length headers
MAC O/R H-pipe
MAC 2.5" catback
And that is all i can think of.
Immediate plans started today. I started prep work on my block that is going to the machine shop monday.
Its getting a .030" bore and cleaned up. The machine shop is going to machine the crank .030" also and assemble the stock rods and hyper pistons.
Using moly rings.
Its getting an E cam if the one i have is any good, or an X cam if i have to buy one.
GT-40 heads off of my 94 cobra and ford explorer intake.
The motor is a temporary motor. I'm headed to san diego in march for about a year and upon return i plan to build a 408w for it. I'm not going to get into specifics on it, because its a long time out.
The trans is going to stay stock until i put the 408 in, and at that point with get built with Astro's parts to handle around 500 ft/lbs
I have no plans for the rear end at all.
On the front end i plan to upgrade to 99+ calipers and call it a day.
I want to put 99+ front seats in it, and do a rear seat delete.
It also needs some typical things that a 20 year old car needs, the top needs replaced(if anyone has done this, can you give me a rough idea of cost) and it needs a weather stripping kit.
I'll try to update this as the motor build progresses. The motor will be in the car by the middle of February.
Here are some pictures of the car.
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Here are few pics of my block and crank waiting to go to the machine shop(my prep work consisted of cleaning out the head bolt holes, popping out the soft plugs, radiusing the oil holes, and gasket matching the oil pump feed hole)
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As with any project, i am always open to suggestions.
Along with the motor, i am going 24lb injectors, new maf and 255 fuel pump.