Finally another missing piece to the puzzle has been found. Haven't had much progress lately other than saving some money. Now I can start all over again with that. My son and I just got this put out back in the shop. It is an Arrington R3 short deck W8 358 c.i. ex Craftsman Truck motor that originally came from Brad Keslowski. It has been converted to a wet sump by the previous owner, has Bryant billet crank, Carrillo rods, Diamond pistons, .760" solid roller, new Jesel roller lifters, Jesel titanium rocker set up, titanium valves, and has just been freshened. I will have to take some compression out of it, put a turbo grind cam in it, and probably change the exhaust valves from ti to inconel. It was all the right pieces I was looking for, and for the right price.

To quote a good friend ....This car is tastefully done....it will turn heads and draw crowds sitting still, damn fine car u got there.

Deeeeeaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnn!!!!

OMG! beautiful

A+++
one of my fav. as well. I good call on color choice. I had one as well.....

Progess seems slow lately. I have fabbed some mock up mid and motor plates knowing that they will have to be cut on. So after I modify them I will laser cut the final product. The engine is in place and was lowered 1" and still could not come up with enough hood clearance for a blowthrough set up. We are now going fuel injected so I can keep my original paint flat hood. With the 6061.com shorty elbow we have 3/8" clearance to the hood. I have also purchased almost all of the pieces to build the headers. The IC Engine Works mock up header kit has already saved me some money, verses cutting and tacking elbows only to change my design two or three times. Hoping to have the headers tacked upto the collectors within the next couple of weeks or so.

Very nice car ! Workmanship is beautiful pat your self on the back

Nice piece. I love the fab work. wish I was that talented.
Doug

Dude you are doing a great job. Obviously not your first build. Can't wait till mine goes under the knife again for the big motor, and cage would be nice rather than get sent home sometimes. Going to be a wicked car when it's done that's for sure!

Are the lowering blocks on the rear end staying??

Looking good!
Any chance you'll make it out this year?

Al

Very nice. Keep the pics coming.

this man has skills.

Thanks guys, I am a fabricator for a living, mostly pharmacutical and food grade stainless, so it seems almost routine to me. Hopefully that will allow me to build some badass headers. I purge weld stainless on a daily basis.

Lookin great, Jody...still kickin myself in the butt for not buying that car when i had the chance..

glad you got it, you do awesome work..cant wait to see it run when you get her done

cant wait to see it in person.

So does a 60mm cam core alow for enough LSA for a turbo motor?

It would probably be a custom core, although a lot of the Comp Eliminator stuff would be running 60mm camshafts with 112 + lobe separation angles.
I would imagine this engine has a 50mm core anyway

Seems I remember Ryan J having issues getting enough LSA out of those cam cores when he was biulding his turbo motor.
I think the 9.0 blocks use 60mm cams and the taller blocks use 50mm.

The only blocks that I recall having the the 60mm tunnel were the 2.25" main blocks. As far as I know the Craftsman truck stuff had the 50mm roller tunnel. My R3 that I had was 318 main with a 50mm unnel and a 9" deck.
Sorry for the hijack