Subframe, differential and stock gas tank are out of the car. Removing all the rubber bushings tomorrow and designing the new solid aluminum replacements. Hoping to finish stripping all the glue and sound deadener tomorrow also. Then it's on to cutting out the speaker enclosure. Hope to make all the bushings this weekend.

 

Please take pictures of your progress.

 

it would be simpler, but i dont feel like spinning 1st through 5th lol, and i have a 3.3 rear end! i feel in all honesty, if i sell my built motor/tt setp i can have enough to build and swap in a turbo ls.

 

No more speaker enclosure! Just need to fill in the holes and finish removing the parts where it was spot welded to the chassis!

 

Got the driver side sheet metal filler panel installed. Turned out very nice in my opinion. For anyone who has not taken out their carpet, there is actually a foam filler piece that fills a large void to the inside of the frame rail. This is the hole that this filler piece is now covering.

Made it from 16ga mild steel on a waterjet. Then made my own dimple die to make the strengthening dimples and add some appeal to the panel. Passenger side should be finished tomorrow.





99% of all the sound deadener and tar is removed finally. Just need to finish cutting and grinding where the speaker enclosure was. Then it is onto mounting the fire cell and making the NHRA legal fuel cell firewall and welding in some things such as my 4th and 5th mounting points for my harnesses.

Been working daily on the solid bushings for the subframe and differential. Been trying to machine one a day as right now it is not a huge rush until the fuel cell is in.

 

^need some help sweetcheeks?

how did you go about taking the sound deadener out? dry ice?

 

It is actually an easy three step process:

1) Live in Wisconsin
2) Store the car in an unheated/uninsulated garage
3) Freeze your butt off with a hammer & scraper by choosing to tackle the project in winter.

 

....or you could wait till spring and do it with dry ice so you aren't risking your testes traveling back inside your body.

 

Nothing a little beer can't solve.

 

Spoken like a true Wisconsinite!

 

I miss Leinie's like you wouldn't believe.

(used to work at Noah's Ark in the Dells; dad has a summer place about 5 miles north of town on the river across from Stand Rock)

 

I got kicked out of Stand Rock once for "having a fire thats too big". That place sucks.

 

Whats the big deal with all this swap nonsense?

 

This car is going to be an animal at the track. Now if only id smarten up and go with an auto...

 

Talk about a blast from the past!
Good to see you back.


Almost like you never really left.

 

+1!

The TH400 is a blast to drive and it is quick even with the long gears. Not the best on the street but it doesn't bother me. You said you were going to go with 4l80E if I remember correctly anyway.

 

Yeah eventually. This is going to be my last year of 99/1 street/strip...next year im going to shift more towards the track and most likely go auto. I want to see what kind of MPH I can pump out of this thing.

 

snyper, for your clutch slave cylinder, what setup did you use? i bought a mcleod adjustable. immediately after, i saw that sikky makes a conversion. what did you use? i saw your spec sheet said custom. just wondering exactly what id need or be better off picking up the sikky kit

we need an ls swap sub category on this forum.

 

Badass work on your car. Couple of quick questions that I didn't come across reading the thread.

Is your motor placement (far back in bay) in order to get the shifter assembly to line up better? Do you have any pictures of your shift linkage and what was needed to get it shifting properly?

I was looking at the Sikky kit but I'm not sure if their mounts would position the motor more forward and in turn conflict mounting the TH400 in it.

Thanks, keep up the good work.

 

My motor placement is strictly for weight distribution. I am not sure if the TH400 would fit the Sikky kit. The shifted uses a stiff cable instead of a linkage. No placement issues since there is no linkage.