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Originally Posted by chichirone
Looking great Bryan. I am really intrigued with the rear sway bar. Will you enclose it through the trunk or is it my imagination it is still under the trunk floor out of sight. 
Also, will any of these changes with the sway bar and revised torque arm setup effect spring rate?
When will the Frankenstein be back to life? I am curious if the cam and head change effect the sweet exhaust sound of TOW. Still one of my favorites from the USCA videos I have from this past March. |
Thanx Jay. I will try to get a picture of the sway bar mount this week, but I may not get there until Friday. To give you an idea, Eric ran a 40+" piece of 1 3/4" chrome moly tube all the way through the trunk. So yes, it does go through the trunk, but the trunk will not be exposed to the outside. Eric will weld the tube to the trunk floor and new brackets once everything is finalized.
And yes, we are definitely changing the rear springs. We are softening things up significantly, which will help both the ride quality as well as the loose-on-exit problem I was having during the USCA event (leading to one of my offs).
The engine should be back together this week. We are not sure yet if we are going to have to cut and re-route any of the exhaust or not though. We are going to try and keep the over-the-axle pipes we have now, even if we have to clearance them a bit. To me, the engine note changed very little with the engine changes earlier this year, and like you, I'm curious as to what this round will do. I would expect that the higher cam overlap will be the biggest change, but I expect that when on the throttle it will sound pretty similar.
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Originally Posted by glassman
Man dude, your short block is in waaaay clean shape!! Is it new? Mine looks nothing like that ( a lil used and abused)
Fun stuff!! But funner driving...
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This is the engine which went into the car back in March, build by TSP. When I pulled the heads, it wasn't so clean:
It took a lot of careful scrubbing to clean that all off...