New mwmber with new project

[G-Body]

Amazing car who makes that front clip?

[almcbri]

nice GTO! Looks to be coming together nice.

[SWAPMEETCRAZY]

Originally Posted by almcbri

nice GTO! Looks to be coming together nice.

xxxxx222222222!! going to be 1 badd ride!!!

[SDMAN]

Originally Posted by G-Body

Amazing car who makes that front clip?

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That glass front end is a VFN piece. Of all the fiberglass manufacturers, their stuff seems to be the most accurate as far as fit is concerned. All glass stuff needs a fair amount of blocking and surface prep work. But Ive seen stuff from other manufacturers that doesnt even come close to fitting.

The hood (havent posted any pics of that yet) is a 2" rise stock appearing ram air GTO hood made by Glasstek. This is the only piece Ive used from Glasstek, and its a pretty nice piece as well. Dont want to give to much away, but the hood will get some work to improve air intake and support a cold air feed directly into the centrifugal supercharger.

[Kendall Burleson]

Frame work looks killer it that a Art Morrison?

[G-Body]

This build still has me drooling! Cant wait to see more!

[98ssnova]

Yas I really am getting into this build got any updates

[SDMAN]

I did finally get down to get the car out of what should be the last trip to the chassis shop.
They made the final modifications to the Art Morrison frame. Basically we changed the inner frame rails to allow placing the mufflers as far back as possible (where they belong), slotted the original round exhaust pipe openings in the frame to allow for the oval pipe and added some X bracing in the frame to make the NHRA happy. When you remove the floor and large chunk of the firewall, they have some very specific things you need to do for safety.
They added an NHRA legal 8.50 moly cage. We used the Alston pieces that make it possible to remove the door bars and rear cross bar for more comfortable street use.
The custom headers were also fabbed, and I could not be happier. They clear everything, dont hang below the frame at all and are big tube (2.250") primaries which the blown motor will like. We had Spintech fab us a 28 degree bend transition (from 4" round to the equivalent size oval) and just incorporated that piece into the header. Turned out sweet.
And, for the best possible 60 foot times, we added a drag race style torsion bar mounted behind the rearend in a pair of spherical bearings mounted to each frame rail. This is a drag race only piece that easily bolts on and off.
Time to get going on some serious assembly.

And the final stuff to get the motor ready has begun. More on that later.

[SDMAN]

With everything else starting to move more smoothly, its time to turn my focus to the motor. Originally, the plan was to use the 4 barrel single plane CV-1 intake, modified for EFI. But after a mock up of the intake, Wilsons throttle body and Extreme 4500 hat (I borrowed one of those), the final setup sat a WHOLE bunch higher than we had anticipated. We were going to just live with it and mod the fiberglass hood.
However, a newly available universal tunnel ram is now available for the CV-1 heads. This intake has a 2X4 base with a configurable top. For a carb setup, you add a spacer to the plenum to make it the correct volume for your ci and RPM range. Then you add either a double 4150 or 4500 top depending on which style carbs youre using.
For EFI use, you add the required spacer, and a flat top. Then you modify the front of the manifold to accept a throttle body. And setup this way, its a bunch lower than the single 4 intake and all the required pieces. Pics are of a prototype 2X4 base that I borrowed to do some comparisons. I will be switching to the 2X4 base and front mounted throttle body setup. In addition to a lot less hood interference, it looks a whole lot cooler too.