Progress Thread Street/strip 427w In A Gt Hatch- Slow Progress

A5literMan said:

Why tfs intake? Or which tfs intake is better question lol? Have you thought about a super Vic efi intake?

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Tfs version of the super vic. May be more close to the old canfield intakes than a super vic, there's not much data in them and they're a little new so it's something kinda different.

mikestang63 said:

sorry who's doing the motor.. Woody?

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Yes.

So I've been stuck on the weekend shift since Thanksgiving, which combined with the cool weather really didn't help my laziness streak. Finally back at it a bit though because there should be some big news next week sometime.

Figured it was time to stop patching holes, and put some new parts that don't fit on

This guy hasn't seen any action since two houses ago, cutting down dead trees and brush. He got some exercise today.

The unsuspecting victim:

Test fitting the TeamZ piece, would not recommend it, the overall spread was 7/16" too short (leaning on it in a vise opened it up), the channels that are supposed to wrap around the frame rails were about 1/8" narrow (again, a little vise tweaking), and the big killer were the tabs (more channel) were 1/4" too small to fit my frpp rad (3 1/4" across where stock support held it), and since they were centered it meant that the plastic protrusion on the tank (probably just for fixturing the thing during assembly, but NOT taking the chance to cut it off) hit the bar and wouldn't let it sit in the tabs even if they were wide enough.


Made new radiator mounting tabs out of 16ga steel and cut off the old ones


IT FITS!!!! Was actually surprised it worked the first time, figured for sure I'd eff it up somehow


Bending up the second one


All welded up. Welds are ugly (my auto darkening helmet gets a little too dark) but they're strong enough for my fat butt to stand on it so....


Hopefully I can kick the lazy tomorrow and get something done on it, we'll see.

The front side looked OK but the back was all crinkled up from an experiment trying to move the car with no front suspension (back a couple pages).

So, whats in the crate you ask?


STICKERS!!!!! LOTS AND LOTS OF STICKERS!!!!













































oh, and this came too

A little musical engines (the old 302 will get shoved in basement whenever it decides to stop raining)


Detail pics:

These came too