how she sat when I brought her home. /6 sketchy small brakes and all.

Love the post cars, can't wait to see more

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bye bye perfect running slant six

Very cool! Love that body style! You California guys have it good. Doing a twin turbo Gen III in a 63 Dodge 440.

sanded & primed

big brake conversion. all new bushings.

I likey!

so at this point I decided I was going to jump into the gen 3 stuff and not build the 340 I had. did what I thought was a lot of research but learned you can read all you want but doing is a different story. so I started looking for auction donor cars and came across a srt8 charger.

make a dumb decision and take the chance and buy the car thinking the motor would be fine and hopes crushed. insurance job I should've sniffed out. you live and you learn

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so i recoup all my money selling parts from the charger and make a little on top (still didn't make me feel any better lol) and start plotting my next move. also this is the first engine I tore down so that was good for the learning process. ok so in the mean time of figuring out whats next for me I start my search for an 8.8 rear at the junkyards. then pops says he wants a dana and would make me a deal on his 8 3/4 with the offset shackle set. DONE.

frame connectors came next.

Bum deal on the 6.1 the car looks good.....why an 8.8 and not a 9 ?

thank you. junkyard ford 8.8 cheaper. ended up with an 8.75 tho (mainly cause availability).

next I find out since I'm using a slant 6 k member the only mounts besides customs I can use are the schumachers. order those and start mock up. gen 3 w/ 727.

its in. it kinda fits...

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truck manifolds

more. looks like we can keep the flat hood

that 6.1 has a hole in it? are you going to keep the block ? I know some one who would be interested in it if you are going to junk it.

Oh man you're leaving us hanging..... any new photos of the progress?

did you redrill the heads for the manifold bolt pattern like that 4 door coronet did or need to do that yet or find a different option?

I gotcha lol

yup drill and tap

What are planning for the car mount alternator they usually interferes with the frame?

truck cover. pics soon

I'll be interested to see that, I thought the truck cover interfered with the front mount TB.

it does. but where theres a will theres a way

found a truck front cover on craigslist and a rad at MATS swap meet

oil pan 31003

Are you putting oil lines in that pan for the turbos? Interested to see how you do it, because I might be doing the same thing at some point. Great build and thanks for posting your progress.

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I used the dipstick hole on the pan for my return. its 10an I believe and used a truck dipstick on the drivers side of the engine.

Good thinking

turbo's here ! on3 performance 7875. t4 flange. 3 inch downpipe

playing with some bends on the hot side. with a truck front cover and a car intake the alternator location needs to be manipulated. also look where I shaved/ground down the front cover under the throttle body to use a car intake.

next I was in the market for a cable driven throttle body. bbk were kinda pricey and efisource was just releasing adapters to use a ls throttle body. I know I know.
heres link for adapter
https://www.efisource.com/wp/shop/gen-3-hemi-throttle-body-adapter/
and the throttle body is from warr performance. tb is 92mm and I believe the intake open is only 90mm or so. needs to be bored

carnage in the intake

Hey now NOTHING wrong with using the LS TB.....what the engine doesn't know won't hurt it.

I use a Ford 5.0 style BBK TB on my turbo 383. It has never once complained to me about the OEM origin, it's sucked up every bit of air that's gone through it.

The alt is going up above the turbo? Is there not room to put it over on the driver's side somewhere and still run a belt the right way for the waterpump?

That's what I was wondering...but with the truck cover it might not be doable, the Auto(LX/Jeep) cover you can mount the alt over where the Air Compressor would go.

but on trucks it sits up there where the a/c sits on LA engine, right? He might need to use the little denso unit instead of the one native to the car.

I hear that. my pockets would've known the difference thats fissure lol

what I was going to do but my /6 k member and Schumacher mount set up don't allow much room.

heres what im going for. and hopefully be able to miss the 3 inch downpipe

other examples of alternators with truck front covers and car intakes

intercooler came in

44mm wastegate vs 60mm. the 60 I ordered when I ordered the turbo but its massive in an already crammed bay. going to try a single 44 then add another later if creep is a problem

scored these deatschwerks 88lb injectors brand new off offer up for a deal I couldn't pass up.

Sweet loving the detailed photos keep it up

no hole in this one! yay!

Keep it up looking forward to seeing this run.

I've seen some BIG holes in these G3s, this was a Turbo 5.7 with a stock cast crank, it let go around 1000hp, #5&6 journal came out the side of the block. , the rear hole was cut to make it larger .front of the block was dissected.

1000hp on stock parts. can't be mad at that! ill be happy with 600 lol

heads drilled and tapped for forward facing truck manifolds

pulled mock up engine and trans. ready to paint and almost ready for engine to go in

engine comp painted. mocking up gpa's kirkey

she's coming along! truck and car harmonic balancers are different fyi! was wondering why my belt wouldn't line up...

Do the balancers interchange and you just need the right one to match the cover? Are there SFI rated ones of both styles?

Nice work! Gotta love being able to work outside like that. I'd love to just be able to leave the garage door open!

bingo! and yes they make sfi of both!

she's ready to go in. do I look excited lol

more pics

so I was getting impatient trying to learn to weld and fab up the exhaust and turned it over to my chassis man rj Simrock. he was going to put the cage in the car for me in the first place so just added hot and cold side to the laundry list lol

I like it.

Looking great!

hot side

more

mas

cage work

more

ice tank with pump from Rhodes race cars

I wanted the bench seat really bad but being 6'3 I wasn't comfortable as I should've been and being realistic a bucket is safer. went with these. hope it didn't kill the sleeper look too much

how I brought her home.

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the calm

the storm 😭

fuel system.
stock 17 gallon tank. 1/2 sending unit. mallory ow pressure pump pulling from stock sending unit feeding surge tank. efi (high psi pump) deastwerks, pulling from surge tank feeding rails. excess pressure returned to surge tank first, then to stock tank.

the 6.1 intake is super close to the firewall. this worked like a charm for vacuum. 3 bar Mopar map you can't get any input values for. thats another story....

interior shots

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https://youtu.be/G0U_HVGXnjk

Thanks for sharing Travis. Good to see your little "LS" come together and run

Looking really good!

Do you have any experience with the EFI stuff? I don't have a gold box but I have an MS3X system and they work really well, lots to learn, but it works good and it has been super reliable.

Awesome progress!
Looked like you had the wastegate plumbing wrong though tying back into the downpipe before the wastegate rather than the exit of the gate?

Love the attention to detail, and the walk through on progress,......so who has the over under on how long the 8 3/4 last ?

Not at all haha. Yes I like the mega squirt and tuner studio. Like you said lots to learn but I’m getting more and more comfortable with the interface.

Thank you! It goes back into tthe downpipe post wastegate!

Thanks Ray! I think it will live at my power level lol at least I hope so!

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Until he get gets a converter/boost set up that hits the tire hard, then........Have fun with it , but don't get greedy

ah, that was a piece of stock supporting the gate in place it looks like that I was confused about.

Is the engine solid mounted? A body mount turbo with no flex pipes and regular mounts would cause trouble.

haha yeah I hear you! guess don't lean on it till I have 9 inch or dana money set aside. tisk tisk

ah yes. that was for mock up. didn't end up using that mount to the inner fender.

I wouldn't worry so much about the rear end until you start trying to launch hard. Launching soft and bringing the power on down track to learn the tuning should be easy enough on the 8 3/4. I'm still at a 'low' power level but the 8 3/4 in my 70 Fury has been fine with a 12psi 383.

yeah ill have to see how it works out. are you turbo or pro charged? whats your combo and how does it run?

waste gate dump

https://youtu.be/7Ciha_MqoJ0

on the alignment rack 2 days before we leave for the track.

pops. mine. sis.

me an little bro after the first drive. a day before we load for track.

off to Vegas for her maiden voyage...

tech'd in and waiting.

first pass Friday: I pull into the water box. get tires spinning and as I pull out the car shuts off. I had no clue what happened but thought I blew a coupler off. idk why. but had them push me back. popped hood. everything looked fine. fired right up and drove it back tot he pit to diagnose. bummer cause you only get two passes a day. I just wasted one.
2nd pass. drive around water box figuring im gonna just ease it down to get some actual data beside my street driving. walk into he throttle and before the 60 car goes limp. 2nd pass. a bust.
at this point I realize my tune is way off. tuning with no ice in the tank makes a big diff in required fuel. lesson learned. I throw ice in the tank and drive it to the airbnb for the night. on the highway I datalog and jump on it a couple times and adjust the fueling hoping for better results Saturday.

Saturday. first pass. I do a burnout and the ca his still running! cool. lol. roll into the throttle hit every gear and it feels good. first pass in the books! its only up from here.
14.13 ! Ive got a 14 second street car ! never thought id be so excited to run a 14. all the hard work made it down the track!

guess I should mention pump 91oct. 3.23 gears. and making 6-7lbs. 255 radials. shifted it at like 5500. engine never made it past 6k. timing very conservative.

second pass Saturday. I was feeling more confident in the car but still didn't want to break the puny driveshaft or the gears so I planned to roll into it again but a lot sooner than the first pass lol. well the duster I ran mad that easy. he jumped out on me and my foot got heavy real quick. ca ran decent. more data. 12 second street car! same timing same boost.

little by little she'll get there.

Mine's twin turbo. Doesn't run as good as it should

You've got a good start to mph there even with the conservative start!