The project is still not finished, however we have made some progress. We thrashed on the car to get it to the point where it could roll on it's own wheels so it could go to the Muscle Car Nationals this weekend at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont IL. Dennis Spal, owner and chief fabricator at
www.highspeedwelding.com entered the car in the show and took home a gold award even though the car is not yet finished. Congrats Dennis!
Some progress pics follow and then a couple of pics of the car at the show.
We decided to weld AN -4 bungs into the back of the intake manifold so I could run vacuum lines from there and they are neatly out of view when the manifold is on the engine.
Dennis Spal welding on the manifold
The finished manifold.... pretty nice I think. The -8 fitting is for the brake booster.
Oil return for the turbo, steel tube welded into the pan and a steel AN -10 fitting for the line
Installed and ready to run the line to the turbo
Oil return line goes up to the turbo
Remote oil filter mount on the drivers frame rail, the -4 line feeds the turbo with oil, the sensor is for oil temp gauge. Big lines go down to the external oil pump pickup housing (Indy Maxx).
Custom fan shroud fabricated by Dennis Spal
Front end coming together...
Now that's a big intercooler, 4 inch inlet/outlet
Intake tube
K-member and tubular suspension fabricated by Dennis Spal @ High Speed Welding
106 mm turbo inlet
Fenders on!
Dennis Spal trims the grill for intercooler clearance
Fuel lines, vacuum lines, oil lines, and water lines are done
Here is the car at the show this past weekend.
Show is over, cooler full of Moosehead is packed in passenger seat, ready to roll
We still have to install the correct springs, set final ride height, and align the front end (notice a bit of negative camber in those tires??)
There are many other things to do. The rear end is not finished, spring perches need welded for final, anti-roll bar to be fabricated, differential to be installed, wheel tubs need welded in for final, trunk floor needs welded in, fuel cell to be mounted, battery and master disconnect switch to be installed, front sway bar to be installed, entire car still yet to be wired, engine management harness to build, initial fire up and dyno tuning, just to name a few.
Wow IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT 
absolutely beautiful 
