Pops Ride.

[glassman]

dam, 59 years young. To memories of our past and loved ones along the way....

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So,,

Its been some time since I posted the progress, and or lack of.
After being at Richie's for a while, and his scheduling conflict of progressing on the project within a reasonable amount of time, I made the move to Pacific Fabrication .. aka.. Tilden Motorsports in Gilroy.

Rich got the car to a point, to get it over to get the exhaust made by King exhaust in Morgan Hill, however It went over to Pacific Fabrication first, to get an evaluation of what needed to happen next, to button up the LS6.

After going over the car, motor, to do items with Kevin Stearns, we made a plan to change out the headers for some stainless works, and some minor engine mods while the clip and motor were easily accessible.;
Custom ground cam
Hardened chromoly pushrods
Double roller timing set
Dual valvesprings w/ titanium retainers
Moly coated rockers with pre-installed trunnion bearing
High volume oil pump
NGK TR6 spark plug set

I took it home, and ordered those parts. Meanwhile, did some interior demo again, to remove some bolt brackets that were used for the rear sway bar that was removed, (since it is now a torque arm), installed the clutch master cylinder, some wiring, and set up a few speakers with baffles.

its over there now, engine internals are done, set back in car, headers in, buttoning up wiring..




more photos coming up.

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So when i went to check on the progress, and got me a little surprise!, I had origionally looked into, and asked about the FAST intake and throttle body., and then ultimately decided it was not in the budget at the moment.
Well low and behold, I walk up to the car and what do I see!!...



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complete with Tilden Motorsports new black anodized throttle body.

What a nice surprise!

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[Sonar Chief]

Now that is nice .... scope creep? You won't regret adding go fast parts EVER!

Michael

[Zoomin]

Ya gotta tell us Art - how does one get surprised like that?

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Originally Posted by Zoomin

Ya gotta tell us Art - how does one get surprised like that?

Well, I'm still holding out, in hopes that Kevin Stearn's - intentionally set that up as a way of sponsoring and or advertisement for Tilden Motorsports and Pacific Fabrication. - I definitely didn't authorize it, I decided with the minimal hp gains, I would distribute my funds elsewhere, but how can one say, hey, I don't want go fast parts, once they are already on! ?
On the down side, is I was looking at chipping my 2016 Ram MegaCab Diesel, but since the right thing to do, would be pony up, I now have to not get those go fast parts for my daily driver.
I haven't consulted with him, only with his parts manager, so we'll see where this goes once we actually consult on it.(fingers crossed). He'll make it good...He's a great guy, and really like his passion of the sport.

Originally Posted by Sonar Chief

Now that is nice .... scope creep? You won't regret adding go fast parts EVER!

Michael

I definitely agree with you there. It also helps if they look pretty under the hood too!.

All in all, I'm just eager to get behind the wheel, and be able to drive this
5 yr plus project. Its been way too long of a road, and riddled with empty promises and unrealistic completion dates. I'm sure it will be all worth it once I can enjoy it.

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[califconstruct]

Forgelines came in! ~ had to tweak width a bit.



Color is like a chameleon certain angle looks bright and lustful,

other angle looks bronze and flat. Wasn't quite expecting the bronze.


kinda cool.

Forgeline did a great job.



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