The Most Detailed LS3 In The Universe!

[Operations]

Love the build, great job!

[Al Moreno]

Originally Posted by WSSix

I like it!

Originally Posted by syborg tt

The car is looking great and there are plenty of great idea's going into this build. I am looking forward to seeing it at Sema.

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Me too !

Originally Posted by Operations

Love the build, great job!

Thanks guys! What they lack in experience they are making up in innovation. What till you see what they are up to next.

Here are a few progress pics. My buddy Kevin at HM Racing Design helped the boys with the roll bar and bumpers. They specialize in $500,000 Trophy trucks, so this was a cake walk for them.

Replaced the front and rear bumper which are made from sheet metal with chromoly tubing and dropped over 30 lbs.






They also tied in the mounting points for the rad off the new bumper. From the inside of the engine bay, the rad will have a floating look to it.






Since they got rid of the rear seat, they were able to mount the main hoop on the ledge were the rear seat would normally be. This allowed to set it back were you can't see it from the side view. All the other bars we've seen, come off the floor by the front seats, so they are always visible.




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Check out how the down bar came down just above the rear solid mount. The secondary bar fall right above the strut mount solidifying the rear section. Finished it up with a gusset and small dimple.



For future planning, they welded in the mounting plates for the front down bar in case they want to go the a full cage down the road.



Filler panel for passenger side of the firewall. This is were the factory cabin filter use to be.



Gas filler is being relocated to the trunk.



This is a preview of things to come. They have gotten rid of 30 lbs of metal bracing that was there to support the rear seats.

[waynieZ]

Wow big changes! Should make a big difference.

[Al Moreno]

Thanks Wayne, pushing to get it done for SEMA. Going to be Line-Xing the entire floor panel next.

The boys did a tremendous amount of work for something that will look so simple in the end. Creating a flat firewall on the driver side.

Here is a pic of the original engine bay. The red circle represent studs (total of 11 studs) that were sticking out about an inch through the firewall into the engine bay. These studs are welded to the plate that hold the buster and pedal assembly.



In order to create a flat firewall driver side, the first step was to cut off the studs off the plate.

Next they had to come up with a way to mount the plate to the firewall.

Seth made the template for what would become a ring the shape of the hole.



Next came cutting the shape out on the plasma cutter



Nathan cleaning out the edges.



They cut the heads off the bolts and here they used the plate as a fixture to weld the bolts to the ring.



There's was about another 20 more steps to get to where they welded the ring



The holes were use to rosette weld the ring to the firewall.





Finally, they welded the ring to the firewall with the stud now facing the cabin. Next on the list is making a carbon fiber firewall.

[Amituk]

So mount from inside now?

Nice.

I think we have the next ring brothers here!

[waynieZ]

Wow! So many little details.

[Musclerodz]

Is the line-x going to counter productive of the weight reduction program? BTW, love what your kids are doing, going to make good fabricators in the future.

[DFRESH]

Awesome is the only word that describes it Al. I love seeing the boys working on it---it's my own wish for my son---hoping he will one day get involved with me on the cars. Amazing work bro!