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I will just leave this here... More to updates about this car next week!

It's been kind of a waiting game not having all of the puzzle pieces to put the car back together, it seems that every part that I order or need is custom made or weeks and weeks out. The waiting is finally over and progress is to finally be made! I doubt that I'll be making the April 4th race but I'll be dam ned if I'm not going to try!

Transmission was freshened by my friends at Transmission Specialties who were gracious enough to sponsor the car for this season. They addressed a few concerns I had with the trans and found a broken band and retainer while they were in there. Everything is fresh and ready to rip!


I did some final disassembly yesterday to get ready for the motor which is going back in tomorrrow (fingers crossed). Intercooler...who needs that anymore? Going to give this non intercooled thing a try


I'll be replumbing the blower tubing so the old tubing had to go. This is some of the carnage I found from when the tire must have met the tubing I don't even know when or how this happened!? Oh well, it's scrap metal now

hoopty5.0 said:

Not gonna save any of it? Ya know......'just in case'?

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The tubing will get tossed, if it wasn't smashed up I would keep it. I have enough tubing, v bands, etc laying around that I can make new tubing in an hour or two. I've been trying my best to not be a hoarder... If I saved every last smashed part I had I would need a storage locker as big as the one @tannerc91gt is working out of

srtthis said:

im guessing when you put it on the bumper

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That's what I''m thinking, the car has been apart since then and I would imagine that would have been something I noticed. Not that its' a big deal just had me scratching my head a little

Making some progress yesterday, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

madmike1157 said:

Light at the end of the tunnel huh?,.....that is usually a train.

Looking at you radiator helps me.

I was concerned that I may have damaged mine by sticking those plastic thingys that hold my cat sucking cooling fans onto the surface. I actually tore some of the folded aluminum between the cooling rows jamming the things in there. I'm sure that I'm screwed when it comes time to add water to it.

That is until I saw that poor old beat up thing you have hanging in front of the drivers side tire.

That thing still hold water?

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The radiator certainly isn't pretty... I can assure you that it does hold water though!
I can't tell you how many tools, spark plugs and god only knows what else has been dropped on it but it has been a tank.

Well, I was able to get something accomplished today! I started to put the headers back on the car and though to myself " Self, I wonder why these headers leaked so bad last year... Maybe I should put a straight edge on the flanges and see what is going on" I did just that and come to find out, two of the flanges where not even close. Go figure that these are the two that would never seal for more than a few passes. On the straight edge they were more that 3/16" off from top to bottom. "Self, How the hell did this happen" Then it dawned on me...
The first pass out last season I did this:

And smashed the crap out of the headers. This was before the UPR oil pan savers were installed, I have no worries about doing this again now that I have these!


Buying new headers was not in the cards... I did what anyone else would do, I got the welder out and "fixed" them. I welded the flange up and ground them back down until they sat perfectly straight on my welding table. We shall see how well they actually work in a week or so.