My 89 Notch

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laytondavenport

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I'm tearing in hot and heavy to my 89 notch (4cyl) I got the 8.8 swaped in the other day from a 96 and I tore the whole front suspension and K member out from under it tonight. I have a set of brakes and spindles from a 95 GT I am putting on it. I know that it is supposed to widen the track 3/4 of an inch but with my 3.5 Weld Pro Stars I don't think this will be an issue. I have the K member mocked up and I'm waiting on my tubular A arms and coilovers ( to replace my broken Eibachs with Zero miles on them) to show up so I can put it all back together. I got a 347 all forged Solid cam that dyno'd out at 505.8 NA to stuff in it still and a TKO 600. I'm starting to get to the point where I am thinking about finnishing stuff like wiring brake lines feul lines etc anyone offer any sugestions on how to do this the easier most efficiant way?? Heres a cpl pics of where I am at now.
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nunly94gt

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Nice project man!!!!! Good luck, that thing should scream.

What did you do find a motor out of a truck? You said solid lift cam, just curious.

 

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I had the motor built at T&L Engine Development in NC. I'm gonna run it with a TKO 600 with a 0.62 top gear and 3.73's I'm told that it should run 2500 rpm at 75 mph. With a 7300 rpm redline. Sounds a little high to me but they gave me a 2 year warrenty on it.

 

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Anyone ever rewire a fox and if so what kit/company did you use??

 

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EFI or Carb?

Either way your best bet is to find a donor car.

 

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I'm switching it over to carb. I was hoping to use a new harness that way I can update the fuze box to the mini fuzes etc. Plus that way I can have a clearly labeled setup that doesn't have 100 wires I will have to delete.

 

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Painless Fuse Blocks - JEGS

Painless wiring has a few. We are using them on a 94 camaro v6 we are turning into a race car. Works real good and is clean.

 

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Are the wires longer than needed? I'm not gonna build a showcar by any means but I'm super fussy about wiring ever since I had one catch fire years ago that I wired.

 

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The one we used doesnt come with wiring, so we bought a couple spools and did it that way. Im not sure if the pre wired ones come with enough to work.

We left the headlight, tail light and brake original wiring in the car. Ran new wires for nitrous solenoids, fan, fuel pump, radio, interior gauge lights. They sell wiring kits also, but not sure how the prewired ones work.

 

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Ok I'll have to do some more research i just been so busy trying to get everything installed that I already have I haven't spent much time figureing out where to get the rest of the parts I need. Got the motor and trans all mated up tonight I should have it in the car mocked up tomorrow.

 

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95 spindles shouldnt widen the track. 96-98 and 99-04 will though.