Project Wheels and Stance gets a motor and trans!

[GregWeld]

Received Chris's new engine sling.... Now I'm going to have to come down and deliver it -- and see how that wheels and stance REALLY looks!

[DFRESH]

I love the jackstands and being under the car shot---I'm not alone----

Keep it going brother---love this stuff.

Doug

[JayR]

Originally Posted by DFRESH

I love the jackstands and being under the car shot---I'm not alone----

Keep it going brother---love this stuff.

Doug

Thanks Doug! I was back under it last night and have more progress pics to post but we're headed to the airport for Columbus. The car is really well under way and coming together so I'll have some good content next week and WILL drive it in 2 weeks if not sooner!

[youthpastor]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Received Chris's new engine sling.... Now I'm going to have to come down and deliver it -- and see how that wheels and stance REALLY looks!

That's what I'm talkin' about!!!

We should get the Lat-G crew together for dinner GG weekend-

[youthpastor]

Originally Posted by DFRESH

I love the jackstands and being under the car shot---I'm not alone----

Keep it going brother---love this stuff.

Doug

ya I'm still waiting for Greg to deliver the two post lift

That's funny- I was just telling Jason the other night- rolling around on a creeper sure does make me feel old- I'm not 20 anymore

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by youthpastor

ya I'm still waiting for Greg to deliver the two post lift

That's funny- I was just telling Jason the other night- rolling around on a creeper sure does make me feel old- I'm not 20 anymore

When I put in my new Rotary lift -- my "old one" could be had for a song...

Maybe this winter before I rip into the '37....

[JayR]

We've been slamming away on the Buick and it's looking great. I took a few days off to do our Rushforth Wheels booth at Columbus and within 12 hours from getting home last night, we were back at it and Melanie ran the RFW office for the afternoon.

The following is details and progress since my last update.

Where the hell do guys building Camaros and Mustangs keep all their parts??



Check out the clean little removable cover Jared Hancock made for the 6 speed. There's a 67 Camaro console to go over it but it needs a little love and restoration so I'll be rocking it this summer just covered in carpet.




Since stance is an emphasis on this project and the LS2 makes enough HP to put the BF/G KDWs up in smoke at will, I bought Edelbrock shorty headers to keep the collectors way up off the ground and route the exhaust as clean as possible.



The only rub is that the o2 sensor bung aims right at the crossmember. Well, even an allen bolt plug stuck out too far, so I took a cut off wheel to it and gooped up the threads with exhaust adhesive that becomes cement when heated up. We'll put the actual bungs in just a couple inches downstream out of the way.

[JayR]

For fuel delivery, I decided to go clean and simple. This was a real relief to find because it's a bone stock factory spec galvanized tank with a built in electric pump straight from Spectra.



Speaking of clean and simple, my friend Brett has a complete Dorman DIY fuel line kit that makes perfect factory style pressure fittings and we were able to do all of the fuel lines for under $50, and an obligatory pizza.



Look at this guy just sitting in the engine compartment with a 6' long wiring harness that would make most men tremble. If not for Chris, I'd be going carbed!

[JayR]

While waiting on the backordered accessory drive from Pace to replace the CTS-V drive that didn't fit, we went ahead and bolted on the new tall spindles from L&H Kustoms. These things are BEEFY and correct a lot of factory geometry flaws but unlike trying to just bolt in B-Body spindles to an A-Body, these are properly engineered to correct bumpsteer.

You can see how much taller it is than the factory unit and how about how much beefier it is? That's reassuring but you have to give props to the GM engineers who came up with the original unit that held up all these years.



Those are the new upper control arms from Hotchkis to go with the newly revised geometry the spindles provide. Everyone knows about the snowball effect and when you replace spindles, you have to replace caliper brackets and since I installed the Baer Track Plus system, Baer came out with their super sick new T4 calipers and since I had to unbolt it all anyways and buy caliper brackets, why not add in some T4s, right?





Nice!

[GregWeld]

Look at this guy just sitting in the engine compartment with a 6' long wiring harness that would make most men tremble. If not for Chris, I'd be going carbed!

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The thigh bone connected to the... hip bone... the hip bone connected to the ....back bone...

That's wiring... One wire at a time. Eventually when you finally look up from the job it's all done!

Looks good Jayson!