Progress Thread Tanner's "there's Probably A Name For This Illness" Builds Thread

tannerc91gt · Dec 13, 2015

I agree, love the 85-86 nose. They swapped interiors also. Which is what you see before you

old_blue · Dec 13, 2015

Damn. No I gotta start working on one of mine. At least your build(s) motivate me.

tannerc91gt · Dec 13, 2015

old_blue said:
Damn. No I gotta start working on one of mine. At least your build(s) motivate me.

Big plans and a small budget!

tannerc91gt · Dec 14, 2015

Time to get to work

Turn signals in the crash bumper are odd. Don't know much about 4 eyes cars though, sure doesn't seem factory to me?

Edit:they're factory

The more you know!

89oem · Dec 14, 2015

note to self, lock vette ,and hide key from myself till LS motor is found elsewhere

tannerc91gt · Dec 17, 2015

Been trying to draw out plans and ideas. Will probably just do chassis/suspension stuff for a while.
Right now the priority is 5 lug conversion.

I also want to look into mini tubbing the car and possibly relocating the shocks and narrowing the rear end. The Team Z kit looks good. This is foreign territory for me though

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

hoopty5.0 · Dec 18, 2015

I used the Wolfe mini tubs when I did them on the Hoopty 1.0. Buy them unassembled. It takes 20 minutes and saves you a bunch of money. Install should be pretty straight forward, but I definitely recommend tracing where the tubs sit and making your initial cut undersized and then trimming the floor pans to where you need them to be. If I did it again, I'd probably leave the pans about a 1/2" long and cut tabs to bend up at 90 degrees so it lays flat against the tub and gives you an easier surface to weld on. Where the vertical piece of the tub meets the floor was kind of a pain to weld.

tannerc91gt · Dec 18, 2015

hoopty5.0 said:
If I did it again, I'd probably leave the pans about a 1/2" long and cut tabs to bend up at 90 degrees so it lays flat against the tub and gives you an easier surface to weld on. Where the vertical piece of the tub meets the floor was kind of a pain to weld.

I'll keep this in mind. I'll have to dig up your old thread.

tannerc91gt · Dec 18, 2015

@hoopty5.0 thanks to browsing your thread history for literally 10 minutes, i now want to put the 85 front end back on my coupe and I just opened a Roth IRA. Quite the rabbit hole there I guess

A5literMan · Dec 18, 2015

tannerc91gt said:
@hoopty5.0 thanks to browsing your thread history for literally 10 minutes, i now want to put the 85 front end back on my coupe and I just opened a Roth IRA. Quite the rabbit hole there I guess

85/86 coupes are sweet

A5literMan · Dec 18, 2015

Are you going down the LS-turbo hole again? Should I not plan on you selling this one before hand lol?

Noobz347 · Dec 18, 2015

So many moons have passed. The world has seen the end of any formal civilization. Over time, the surface of the earth is wiped clean. Nothing resembling the world that we know today exists without careful examination and extrication.

The new civilization that populates this world will one day have the technology and interest to look and piece together the inhabitants before them. Before that level of technology arises... I'm sure that cars will exist.

There's just one problem. The new inhabitants will have no earthly idea that their first repair shop will be built upon the ruins, no, the very graveyard of.....

You might be laughing now but.... Some ass hole from a distant civilization is going to find this chit and build museums thinking that LS motors came in Fords!

It'll be like the Brontosaurus thing all over again. Wrong head, wrong body.

tannerc91gt · Dec 18, 2015

We should have bought that house purely to continue its mustang graveyard legacy

hoopty5.0 · Dec 18, 2015

tannerc91gt said:
@hoopty5.0 thanks to browsing your thread history for literally 10 minutes, i now want to put the 85 front end back on my coupe and I just opened a Roth IRA. Quite the rabbit hole there I guess

This is hilarious.

A5literMan · Dec 18, 2015

tannerc91gt · Dec 20, 2015

Picked up some 94-95 spindles, calipers and rotors today. Been cruising classifieds trying to piece together the 5 lug stuff so I can put my other draglites on it (I hate draglites...)

Undecided how to approach the rear axle stuff as of now.

Boosted92LX · Dec 21, 2015

Been out a while... Dropped in to find this. At first i was surprised, but then I remembered who this is here.

Another project...

tannerc91gt · Dec 21, 2015

Boosted92LX said:
Been out a while... Dropped in to find this. At first i was surprised, but then I remembered who this is here.

Another project...

At this point I have a reputation to uphold!

Ordered the Team Z front suspension this morning

hoopty5.0 · Dec 21, 2015

Jegs has house brand hardened axles for cheaper that the moser stuff. Hard to beat that unless you find some used.

tannerc91gt · Dec 21, 2015

hoopty5.0 said:
Jegs has house brand hardened axles for cheaper that the moser stuff. Hard to beat that unless you find some used.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm on the fence there.

I think I'm going to skip out on the mini-tub step for the time being. I'd still like to do eliminators or even 9" ends but then I'll have to make an investment in the rear brakes and I'm not well versed in my options once you Switch axle shafts.
Need to pull the 8.8 this week and see what it's got going on. Supposedly has a spool but odds are its still 28 spline stock axles.

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