I had the same idea as Don, it works great for F body. If you have room.

Jody, I’ve been following the build almost daily, and after seeing the wiper delima, I had to run out to the shop tonight and take some pics of mine. These are non-hidden wipers, and hide pretty good with a standard 2” cowl. If your going the flat hood route, it might be a little different, but honestly it isn’t like the wipers rest half-way up the glass. My parts car had the hidden wiper setup on it, and honestly I like the standard setup better. Just looks more 70’s to me I guess.

I agree, looks great Scott. :thumbsup:

I think you'll be fine just leaving the wipers off until they're actually needed if you go that route. I'm sure you can find some sort of cap to cover the drive studs if necessary to make it cleaner when the arms are removed.

I agree the non-recessed wipers hide much better on a 70-72 with a cowl hood as the hood and fenderline is taller than a 68-69. On a 68-69, non-recessed wipers stick way up there above the hoodline.

I'm also for the idea of putting on whatever wiper motors you want, but wrapping up the arms and blades and keeping them in the trunk until you need them.

Depending on what your car has now though you may need new wiper arms and linkage, the arms and linkage are different between recessed park and non-recessed park. Recessed park wipers will have a smaller secondary link on the driver's side wiper arm, non-recessed park wipers are single arms on both the driver and passenger side wipers. The linkage inside the cowl is a bit different too.

Been over a month since last update !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it's been over a month since I've received a part... :lol: The intercooler is finally done and shipped. Plan is to fit that and mock up the lines and then pull the body off for Jim to knock the dents out (no paint). In the meantime I'll strip the chassis and get it powdercoated, re-assemble everything for a final time, get the metal lines welded and coated, and wait for the body to come back.

The plan is to put the car together sealed and primed and tear down later for paint. I'm still missing some key items though; waited a year on a Centerforce DYAD and gave up. Fortunately McLeod is bailing me out with one of their RXT twin disc clutch setups. Still waiting for the fuel tank (6 months) after waiting several months from a different supplier. There are several other things that are still months out at best. This is NOT the time to try to build a car, getting parts is very tough.

and it fits... :cheers:

Pretty :)

Niiiiiccee!!

I've got a clutch! :cheering:

Congrats! It sure is pretty.

Looking forward to the first burn out video :king:

Working on the cold side plumbing. Got the top tube from the intercooler to the throttle body tacked together, and figured out the turbo to intercooler line, just missing a couple of mandrel bends. Should be here this week along with the downpipe pieces.

That looks awesome!

Looks great. Any specific reason you chose A2W versus a big 5-6" thick A2A intercooler?

Dave

That's one reason. Even a 3" intercooler requires completely re-configuring the hood latch on a 70 Chevelle. Plus I didn't want to have the intercooler heating up the air into the radiator. All the factory supercharged LSA's, LT4/LT5, etc. use a liquid to air setup and they are fine. Plus I have the Holley alky injection system under boost, so the air temps should be fine.

Got the turbo to intercooler line fitted and tacked up today. Not visible from the front of the car. Somewhat near the exhaust crossover, but if the Zybar exhaust coating works like they claim (90% radiant heat reduction) then I'm good to go. If not, I have plenty of Thermotec wrap for the exhaust.

Tomorrow I'm starting on the downpipe and exhaust.

Nice Jody...looks good.

This is looking so good! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

downpipe started, need more parts... :lol:

more progress

Looking good Jody. Progress is progress. Baby steps brother!

Looks great Jody!

If your flex joint in the downpipe is the newer vibrant style with the pipe liner inside, make sure the joint is installed straight throughout the exhaust building process. We had an odd noise on a new build and it was that inner line of the flex was rattling against the bellow.

Looks like one spark plug is going to be easy to get to.:headscratch:

Super easy from underneath. :thumbsup:

3.5" downpipe, split to dual 3" exhaust. Pretty happy with how it's fitting, good ground clearance. Progress pics...

Jody,
Have you selected your seats yet? I think I read somewhere you are tall, I am 6'6". I was curious what you are considering?

Thanks!

I'm 6'5" myself. I went with the TMI Pro Series Sport seats. Should be here in a couple of weeks. The last couple of cars I've done I modded the seat brackets to drop them down (cut the raised sections). Very simple and gave me all the head clearance I needed. Plus the sliders still work.

I'll have to try them out as-is when they get here and I'll let you guys know.

Little bit more progress. Pics make the pipes looks closer than they are. Mounted the blow off valve between the turbo and intercooler, to give extra protection to the intercooler. Exhaust is no lower than the oil pan.

Part of my TMI order is here, Fedex is still trying to locate the seats/brackets lol. I'm very happy with TMI's work, looks clean but not total street rod.

Wow!! Those are very nice Jody.

They make nice parts,That dash pad looks sweet.

For whatever reason, this wastegate pipe was a struggle. :shakehead: Finally got all the angles right, and can move onto something else.

Supernice!

What kind of flexjoints are you using?

A buddy has struggled with those and ended up going solid pipe, but it was on the crossover-pipe from driverside.

That's looking incredible.

On the exhaust pressure side I went with a double slip connector from Burns Stainless. On the downpipe and wastegate pipe I have the Vibrant ones, but made sure they didn't have any bends as set up, the inner liner can vibrate if bent. I didn't use a flex joint on my last build and by the time a few heat cycles had occurred I had to pry the pipe to line it up to the wastegate when assembling.

Welded and bent up some exhaust hangers. Rods came from Amazon, rod bender from Eastwood. Will drill the bracket holes on final assembly. Will have to custom fab the pipes over the axle, the Magnaflow kit won't clear the Roadster Shop chassis.

That's going to be loud when you put your foot into it. I dig it, lol :thumbsup:

I hope not lol. I almost went with the 2.5" exhaust but chickened out. The turbo tames the exhaust some. If not I see resonators in the future... :lol: