Went over to the car today and got some more shots. Looks awesome. If anyone wants to see something in detail ask away.

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Coming along nicely!! :thumbsup:

Just read the thread, great build, love the make shift transport with the u haul trailer to get to destination. I also have another project thats been collecting way to much dust for 3 years that me and me son (15 as of this week) that we will begin to tackle again, Props to you and your dad for being "close knit"
:thumbsup:

Ill be on the lookout for a buid thread:thumbsup:

On another note..

Motor or Tranny to order first..?

if motor..used ls7 or new lsx 454..??

opinions/thoughts/comments..?

Motor ordered.:wow:

Damn that was fast! :wow:

Just read this whole thread. Great build so far, you are making some real progress!

Awesome choice! The LS7 would have been a sweet choice too. You must be pumped thats an awesome engine. This is going to be a sweet ride. Now go Pop that baby open and get us some pictures.

Thanks guys.

Now we just need everything else...

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Thats awesome Good for you! Thats one of my many dream parts.

Yum...:drool:

:wow: That looks awesome!!! So what are the plans for an induction system on that beast? Carb? EFI?

Nice Choice:thumbsup:

Rich

looks good! :thumbsup:

Very nice.:thumbsup: I believe that engine is good for over 620 horses, right?
Keep us posted.

Thank you. The plan at the moment looks like this:

EFI
s+p adapter plates
stainless works headers
oil pan from prodigy
fast lsxr 102 intake
fast fuel rails
ported ls7 throttle body or 92mm fast
gm front accessories
gm stock ecu and wiring
still have to research injectors

Im sure they will be more..but thats the plan so far.:thumbsup:

Thank you, Yep the motor should make somewhere around that. Im hoping for around 550 to the wheels when its all said and done. 92 octane and no power adders. Well see.:thumbsup:


and heres a cool shot for you guys..
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Found a used c6 set up on lateral-g and luckly jumped on it first, being as they are on backorder and pretty pricey from gm. Well I recieved that yesterday and my dad came over to help put it all together. Its a gm kit and it went on very nicely. In other news we ordered motor mounts and the adapter plates from frank so they should be here soon and we ordered poly mounts from summit and they will be here by friday. If all goes as planned I hope to mock up the motor on the frame to see what kind of clearance we have for the oil pan. Here is some quick pictures from last night.

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more to come soon..

Motor is awesome, interested to see the numbers it makes with the Fast intake.

It looks great . Glad to see you got to scoop it up.

So you're the guy that beat me to the C6 Drive kit,Congrats on a killer deal ....your project is coming out very nice :thumbsup:

C6 front drive
 

Hey car looks great,front drive looks good on your motor,hopefully everything was ok with it.

Nice motor! Gonna be a wicked camaro for sure..

So got the motor mounts and adapter plates last night from Frank over at prodigy. Big Thanks to him and their team for dealing with me:thumbsup: The old man came over and we mocked everything up to see what where dealing with. Im going to take it apart again and have the mounts painted nice and finished with stainless hardware when it goes in for the final time. Starting to look like a car more and more as we go...I cant wait to start this thing for the first time. Next up is the oil pan and headers, then intake, tb..ect..onto the pictures.

I got polyurethane mounts from summit and they come with a piece they say to install. When we mocked it up is didnt seem to fit. I left it out for now. Any input on if this plate needs to be installed??
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Getting it ready
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Ready for touch down.
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Shes in:thumbsup:
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more to come soon..

Hey steven car and engine are looking real good,sure would like to trade you engines

I never used those pre-load plates either with my S&P mounts. Same problem. But I also trashed two sets of the poly mounts. Not sure why. Changed to solid this year.

Motor looks great in there. :thumbsup:

Cool man thanks for the info. :thumbsup: Thats what I wanted to hear. My dad pointed out another thing I need an opinion on. When we where putting the motor mounts onto the actual frame the one way they hang over the edge, but the other way they sit on the frame touching it all the way. Seeing the way it hung over the edge I said it cant be that way. My dad though it was. We put it the way I thought and he emailed me today saying he was right...see the picture below. Can someone confirm which way they sit? Does it matter?

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Mine are also like this.

You must be excited to see the motor in there. It looks great. My engine stands hung off like that too.

Got my oil pan in from mast and it looks good. It will be installed this weekend and I will be painting the floors with por-15. More upates coming..

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So I didnt get over to work on the car as much as I wanted to this weekend. My dog has been pretty sick but she seems to be doing a lot better. I did get the oil pan installed but no painting, maybe next weekend. I looked over the internet for tourqe specs on the pan and pickup and came up with the following on top of the pictures. if any of this sounds wrong please let me know.
Heres some pictures.

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I torqued the bolts that hold the pickup mounts on the deflector pan to 28 lb-ft
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The pickup tube to the pump was torqued to 9 lb-ft or 106 in-lb.
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Here is the view from when I first put the bolt in. It made me uneasy seing it that close to the chain so I went to the hardware store and got a shorter bolt that did not come out of the back.
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The main 13 bolts for the pan where torqued to 18 lb-ft and the 2 end bolts that go into the crankshaft cover where torqued to 9 lb-ft or 106 in-lb.
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There it is all done.
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and just incase anyone wants to see where I got my info from here is the link.
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com...ne_covers.html

Nice project, I really like the motor. Please let us know how the oil pan looks in the car. If it hangs down below the frame crossmember. I have been waiting to see one installed. Is the overall height of the pan at the drain plug 5.75"?

I will grab some pictures. I might mess with trying to put it in for a dry fit tonight if I can find some time. I would say that the overall is right around 5.75"

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So the guy that I bought the shell from had told me he painted the underside in eastwood black. I have used por-15 on the frame and loved the results. I wanted to redo the underside since the subframe connectors where welded in and there was some flash rust. So instead of doing a sub-par job and just doing the actual connectors and part of the floor pan I decided to do the whole underside. Well not wanting to buy a rotisserie I had to figure out how to get under there without being on my back and getting all the cleaners and por-15 in my face. With some help from my brother in law here is what he came up with. Big thanks to him and my little brother for all the help. It was definitely a lot of work. Ill let the pictures tell the rest.

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Next up...the inside.

Where there's a will there's a way! Thats a lot better then being on your back. Especially how that POR 15 sticks to your skin.

Yep. Thats the truth. Im always trying to make things easier. Not much of an update this weekend. When me and my brother where painting the underbody I noticied that there was some pin holes that needed to be sealed up and all around the frame connectors needed to be sealed up also. That being said I got some seam sealer and did that this weekend. My younger brother bought his 70 chevelle over also to do some little stuff, oil change, belts, bulbs..ect. So i spent most of my day helping him. We also put my wheels on his car just for fun. Heres some picture of it. Next up is putting the undercoating on and I still have to por15 the whole inside.

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More to come.

Have not had much of an update due to a very close friend of mine passing away last Friday. Me and him always worked on our cars together and shared a love of automobiles and life. He will be greatly missed forever.

I now cherish the time with my friends and family that much more. My good friend came over last night to just hang out, talk about old times and do another dry fit of the motor now that the engine mounts are positioned correct and the oil pan is on. I’ve had some people asking about the fit of the mast pan. It sits perfect. Tons of clearance around the steering components and frame. The pan is just about equal to the sub frame also in depth. Here are the pictures. If anyone wants to see a certain shot please let me know.

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In other news were saving for the tranny and still have to paint the inside and apply the rubberized coating to the underside. Need to find the time. More to come soon.

Sorry to hear about you friends.
I'm glad flipping the mounts worked . It looks like a great fit.

Thanks man. it has changed my outlook on life and made me realized how much of a blessing every day is, bad or good.

So its been awhile. No money will do that to you. Picked up a used fast ls7 lsxr 102 also order brake line stuff from Frank that should be here soon. Got the intake last night and did a dry fit. I cant wait. Dad is coming over tonight and we are going to do some undercoating. More pictures coming soon.

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Heres a cool HDR shot also.
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More to come..

So the old man came by on friday night and we went at it to do the undercoating. Overall pretty easy and simple to apply. Came out really nice. This stuff is so hard to photograph though. Looks blotchy but in person it looks awsome. On saturday I was looking at the rear before I put it back in and I didnt like the way the links where grey so I went at them also with the undercoating also. When my dad and buddy chris where over on friday night and we where looking at the manifold they both said it looks out of place and that it would look better black. I thought about it but wanted to really think about it. Well my brother came over on saturday to give me a hand and saw the manifold also. He said the same thing. I knew what I had to do. Onto the pictures..

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In more news I was talking to my dad about the inside and he said do you plan to drive the car in the rain. I said no not unless I get stuck. he then said why are you going to go craxy on the inside? The inside is already epoxed? Im guessing I have to rethink this. Opinions?

So not to much car stuff really going on. My son was born on the 12th of this month so all my time has been dedicated to him. I did however buy brake lines and a set another set of doors off this guy for 50 dollars before his birth. On the passanger side door the whole bottom is split but the driver was in really good shape overall. I dont have a before picture but I let me body guy take the door and sand blast the whole thing, weld up the small rust spots and fit the door overall, then epoxy prime it. He brought me the door back last night and im amazed by the work he did. I also bought a gallon of expoy primer to do the whole car before winter as I dont know when it will actually be getting painted. More updates to come soon. We will be fitting the fenders for final fitment and fitting the passanger side door, getting all the gaps tight and uniform. Then primer the whole car, and hopefully running all the brake stuff. Heres a couple of pictures..

greater than ANY car or car part.
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