Nice work Mike

It's out on the road for tuning and shake-down. Rolling glass will hopefully go in this week.

Congrats buddy, how do you like it so far? How does it feel?

Feels very different, it's all new, it's all different. It will take me awhile to get used to. Anxious to get the tune cleared up and letting it run harder.

Doooooooooooooood.

Congrats. Looks killer just there at he pump.

It's a totally different car now. What a journey.

Needs some rolling glass in it, but it's not far off.

Looks amazing!

Not much of an update, but I have been able to get the car out and start enjoying it. I have a few lingering changes, like all "done" cars do, but I have been able to put ~450 miles on it thus far.

AC lines are made up, I still need to vacuum/charge the system. I also need to align the door glass and work with my driveshaft speed sensor so that my ECU can reference vehicle speed for a few reasons.
Overall it's running very well.

AWESOME

I am up to about 1,200 miles on the build.













...and every cool car needs one of these

Not much to update, the car has about 3,300 miles on it so far. Even more exciting is that it has not found it's way onto a tow truck, yet!

I've been getting it out and enjoying it as much as I can...though it's a bit of a pain to get a 4month old and a 2 year old in and out of it!

How does the front end feel with the inner fender braces and the rad support brace?

It feels pretty good up there. I do, however, feel like there is more left on the table in the middle of the chassis. The laser cut subframe connectors look pretty, but I feel like I should have used a through-floor design with a more substantial subframe member.

I suppose there is still not much to update on the car, it's doing what it's supposed to. I am up to around 4,800 miles on it.

In recent weeks I have converted to LED headlights, I'll be using them much more often given daylight savings is upon us. I have also added some dynamat, vapor barriers and aluminum backed foam insulation to the door panels. Those three items tightened up the doors quite a bit.

Aside from that, I am working on designing a bolt-in [no new holes] intake air box to help combat my high intake air temperatures [IATs]. It gets way up there during the summer and I would like to mitigate it a bit.

Other than that, I have been trying to polish on photography skills, getting some definition out of those gloss black wheels isn't easy.

Not much to update on, I'm at about 5,200miles on the car. Recently I have been breaking in a new set of gears.

I grenaded the differential several weeks back and tore it down. I rebuilt the SureGrip and setup a new set of 3.73s [from 3.91] and reinstalled. This time I did go with a "LubeLocker" brand 3rd member gasket. It's $25...but reusable and no RTV! For those with 8-3/4s, you know what a pain cleaning the RTV can be.

As I've been putting around breaking the gears in, I have been working on knock/detonation control. The MegaSquirt has the functionality but does not come setup for knock control out of the box. You define the resonant frequency of the cylinder, different gain for each cylinder, the knock % threshold by RPM and finally the response. How much timing to pull and how to bring it back. It's kinda fun to mess with.

Some of the knock setup process. You may have to right click > open image in new tab, if you are interested in seeing what's going on here.

Nice work and it must be great to drive and enjoy a modernized e-body!

It's been great, just rolled over to 6,000miles on it this week.

ive followed your build from the very beginning, awesome work and love the persistance and tenacity to see it through.

my question is why do you think you grenaded the 8-3/4? they are stout units and dont hear of them breaking without transbrake/high horsepower type combos