1968 F100 6.0 ls build

[ChuckDriver]

Looks good in there and the motor mounts look perfect, nicely done!

[hackster]

Looks like things will slow down a little bit for at least a week or so.

Just ordered turbo...

Borg Warner S475 T6 frame along with all of the exhaust stuff I think I am going to need to get it put together.

Should be fun, but a lot of work. Goal for the truck is somewhere between 650 and 750 WHP.

Anniversary tonight, so no garage duty

Sean

[hackster]

So, got the tranny x member buttoned up and installed, turned out pretty good too. New poly tranny mount too.

With the weather here descent for a day, I figured it was bout the last opportunity to shoot the inner fenders and core support, so I setup my "Paint Booth".....aka driveway mixed up some paint and finally after too many hours of cutting, welding, sanding, priming, sanding, priming, wipe down clean and then some more of all that above, I shot some paint on them and the core support.





Pulled them inside to dry after they had setup for a few minutes. Bodywork looks awesome for my skillset and background. Paint turned out pretty descent as well, little orange peely on one and some specs in the other but keep in mind that I shot these in my driveway.

Inner fenders will have nothing mounted on them, all the holes were filled along with the battery tray on both inner fenders totally deleted. Should be a good look, nice and smooth.

Worked a little bit on the front of the motor, got the dirty dingo idler relocation bracket bolted onto the freshly blasted and painted accessory bracket. Looks descent.

Moved the steam port a little to make room for the ls1 intake, moved the electric throttle body from the truck over to the ls intake and got it set in place. Water pump installed, power steering pump back in place and got the power steering lines all figured out. Good Progress.





Needed to get the bed mounted up to figure out where to cut out for the gas filler door. So we moved the bed from my driveway over onto the frame to see how she looked for the first time.







Rear stance is pretty descent, According to my preliminary measurements, should tuck wheel in the rear on the 20x11 rears =)

Sean

[ChuckDriver]

The LS looks good sitting in there!

[aggie91]

Looking Good there Sean!

[waynieZ]

Awesome project. Your doing a great job on it .

[hackster]

Thanks guys, appreciate the nice words.

Managed to stop in at oil filter sales and service this morning and picked up a bunch of fittings.

First up on the to do list was to make some modifications to the fuel rail. Cut off the excess brackets for what I believe was the coil covers. Then I drilled out a -6 steel fitting until it sat right on the inner ridge of the fuel rail return fitting and brazed it on.

Did the same thing on the supply line only with a -8 line on this one.

Rails are early corvette with supply and return lines.

Then what started out as some prep for paint turned into a couple hours with red scotch brite pad, some 320 grit sandpaper and some matte clear and finally think that I am happy with the results. Normally the stock rails are a little less than pretty. Think this is an ok outcome of trying to save a few bucks.





Also picked up some 6x1x110 bolts for the intake, got it all cleaned up, cleaned the heads off and stuck that pig down for good.

Also had to see what the engine bay is going to look like with the inner fenders on.







Turbo might show up tomorrow.....little bit excited about that one.

Sean

[ahawks9er]

Followed you over from T-Bricks. Enjoying watching you build another amazing vehicle. I'm glad you decided to go turbo from the start...

[hackster]

Originally Posted by ahawks9er

Followed you over from T-Bricks. Enjoying watching you build another amazing vehicle. I'm glad you decided to go turbo from the start...

Haha, another turbobricker on here. Thanks for the props man. Turbo or bust for 2014 Power Tour!

Good couple of days...

This showed up on Tuesday afternoon.



I laid out a bunch of exhaust parts on the parts table and got to work.



SO I started to get everything mocked up. Its big. Bigger than I thought it would be.

I really wanted it straight in the engine bay aesthetically, but there was just no way to make it fit there. So, it got clocked into this position and I built a mount to hold this big girl in place.

Checking for clearance to the front inner fender. It is close but not really many options at this time. Pretty sure a compressor blanket is going to be in my near future.





Wastegate showed up yesterday.



It, like the turbo is bigger than anticipated, where am I going to fit all this stuff?

Managed to get home at a descent hour last night and started on the fab work, this is what I enjoy doing so it was fun. Both manifolds chopped off, v bands tacked into place and all of the hot side tacked up. Still need some flex pipes, another v band and the wastegate but pretty happy how this all came together.









Exhaust is going to be almost too close to the oil fill on the valve cover, do they make valve covers with oil fill on both sides? Other than that and the wastegate and dump tube, I am pretty good for clearance on everything.

Thinking about just running a dump tube with a muffler on it instead of trying to snake it back through to the exhaust.

Sean

[hackster]

Worked on the downpipe tonight.





Looking for ideas for the wastegate placement now. Ordered a single 60 mm, but now, thinking I should have just done two 44's instead.

Any ideas out there or suggestions?

Got the last v band, and flex connector today. Have a few hours off tomorrow, hope to make a little progress on it then.

Sean