firebird_1995
10-31-2014, 10:33 PM
I figured since I'm constantly posting on my dad's car and what we're doing/done to it, I would make a build thread for it. Most work has already been done but I will do my best to give it's history along with what we've done, and what we're doing.
I bought it about 5 years ago with a crank that snapped in half. It was a 6 speed car with a 3.73 rear end. Had some nice zr1 knockoffs with eagle f1 tires. I paid $600 for it.
The engine I had to go into it came from my original 95 formula. Dad ended up buying it, drove it for a while then decided he wanted a th400 in it. So the mods began.
It is now:
357 CI (.040 over) 11:1 compression
Forged federal mogul flat top pistons
Stock rods with polished beams
Stock crank with smoothed edges
Fully balanced (after about $300 worth of heavy metal)
Standard volume oil pump and pan
Custom Nu-Tek (remember them??) cam that is basically a CC306 with a 114°LSA. It was marketed as a blower cam, however it's never been used as such.
Home ported heads with 2.00/1.56 valves, pretty much just removed the parting lines and polished the bowls and exhaust ports. Didn't hog anything out.
Proform 1.6 roller rockers
Crane double valve springs
Gasket matched stock intake
30# svo injectors
58mm BBK throttle body
MSD 8.5 spark plug wires
Ngk tr6 plugs
Double roller timing chain
CSR electric water pump
Jet hot long tubes
Flowmaster Outlaw "mufflers", dumped
Crane HI-6 ignition with 2 step
Th400 with brake and RMVB
Yank 3600 stall
Chromoly driveshaft
S60 with 3.73 gears and spool
Prostar skinnies in front
Summit prostar knock offs with 26x10x15 et drags
Summit adjustable shocks in rear
BMR conversion crossmember
So it was driven like that for a while before he decided he went too far for a street car and (after shearing off all 10 of the rear 12mm wheel studs, twice) pulled the license and insurance off it and made it a dedicated track car.
We have added:
Abs delete with line lock
B&M pro stick
Currently gutting the interior, adding aluminum seat, 5 point harness and adding an 8 point cage (for the time being, I have the remaining pieces to make it a 10 point but it's going to wait until we replace the dash with aluminum) and subframe connectors.
He has a nitrous plate kit for it but we've never had time to get it tuned and hooking on the track to where it's work adding.
After we get the cage installed we are going to work on getting it hooking up then throw the juice to it ot possibly stab my whipple engine in it.
We need to invest some money into a good set of adjustable lower control arms and torque arm.
I'll try to get some pics posted in the next few days....
I bought it about 5 years ago with a crank that snapped in half. It was a 6 speed car with a 3.73 rear end. Had some nice zr1 knockoffs with eagle f1 tires. I paid $600 for it.
The engine I had to go into it came from my original 95 formula. Dad ended up buying it, drove it for a while then decided he wanted a th400 in it. So the mods began.
It is now:
357 CI (.040 over) 11:1 compression
Forged federal mogul flat top pistons
Stock rods with polished beams
Stock crank with smoothed edges
Fully balanced (after about $300 worth of heavy metal)
Standard volume oil pump and pan
Custom Nu-Tek (remember them??) cam that is basically a CC306 with a 114°LSA. It was marketed as a blower cam, however it's never been used as such.
Home ported heads with 2.00/1.56 valves, pretty much just removed the parting lines and polished the bowls and exhaust ports. Didn't hog anything out.
Proform 1.6 roller rockers
Crane double valve springs
Gasket matched stock intake
30# svo injectors
58mm BBK throttle body
MSD 8.5 spark plug wires
Ngk tr6 plugs
Double roller timing chain
CSR electric water pump
Jet hot long tubes
Flowmaster Outlaw "mufflers", dumped
Crane HI-6 ignition with 2 step
Th400 with brake and RMVB
Yank 3600 stall
Chromoly driveshaft
S60 with 3.73 gears and spool
Prostar skinnies in front
Summit prostar knock offs with 26x10x15 et drags
Summit adjustable shocks in rear
BMR conversion crossmember
So it was driven like that for a while before he decided he went too far for a street car and (after shearing off all 10 of the rear 12mm wheel studs, twice) pulled the license and insurance off it and made it a dedicated track car.
We have added:
Abs delete with line lock
B&M pro stick
Currently gutting the interior, adding aluminum seat, 5 point harness and adding an 8 point cage (for the time being, I have the remaining pieces to make it a 10 point but it's going to wait until we replace the dash with aluminum) and subframe connectors.
He has a nitrous plate kit for it but we've never had time to get it tuned and hooking on the track to where it's work adding.
After we get the cage installed we are going to work on getting it hooking up then throw the juice to it ot possibly stab my whipple engine in it.
We need to invest some money into a good set of adjustable lower control arms and torque arm.
I'll try to get some pics posted in the next few days....