Progress Thread Project: Buried Under A Mountain Of Snow Black Hole Money Pit.

Well...
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goals this weekend are to have the motor mounts out and the motor sitting on plates. and the wing mounted

midplate is on its way from racecraft so hopefully thats here in time.
 
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cut the lower half of the core support out last night, still need to grind whats left of it down to weld the donothen tube core support on it. just got wrapped up in some other stuff. should be able to get it done this week one night :)
 
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well with my current work load/free time and all that... the car is going in February for the cage to be redone and he will be mounting the motor. after that i'll just need to wire and plumb the car :)
 
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know who cant catch a break...

THIS GUY!!!

Explorer broke a valve spring so its down now also. this is going to hurt the wallet
 

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cage is out...

goes for the new cage this weekend early next week.

also got the fuel pump mounted and then noticed i ordered-10 line and not -8 line. go me....
 

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OH YEA...

the cause of the broken valve spring. motor has never been apart and some how a high pressure fuel pump bolt made it into the intake manifold.
 

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