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#101
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More Progress
Nick has been busy on the floor and now is contemplating smoothing out the firewall. The factory firewall on this car is hideous. There is a big fold right in the center. I think he is going to cut it out and weld in a new flat piece before joining the tunnel back to it.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#102
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Heads!!
Got the first head from Dave Bischop at SD Performance! Awesome work. Second head should arrive later this week.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#103
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More Progress
Nick decided to cut out all of the ugly sheet metal on the firewall and replace it with flat sheet metal. I'll smooth all of it out before we paint it. Also installed the rear ant-roll bar and sent the rear housing off to be powder coated. We sent the fender air extractors out also to be ceramic coated black. It's really starting to get humid around here as you can see from all of the surface rust on everything.
Pretty soon she'll go back on the rotisserie and we'll get to work sanding and epoxy primering the entire car inside and out. Then body and paint. Just have a few more tabs to weld on and some of the front structure to finish.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#104
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Rear End
Got the rear back from powder coating. Looks sweet. Nick made me an awesome 9" holding fixture.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#105
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Updates?
Any updates on this awesome project? It has been fun following it thus far.
Thanks - Kevin
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1972 Firebird 462, 6X heads, RA4 cam, iron intake, Cliff's Q-Jet 3925 race weight Best of 12.88 @ 105 so far |
#106
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Well, since Drag Week got cancelled we took some time off to address some much needed home repairs, install Tiger heads on Nick's 86 TA drag car and just take a break. We will fire things back up in November and finish this bad boy. Stay tuned.
Erik W
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#107
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Nick's TA
Quick video of first fire on Nick's Tiger Headed 535
https://youtu.be/l1XNjz3_c34
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#108
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Quote:
SPEED SAFE, NICK
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#109
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Yes, I have the same inserts in my SD Performance heads that arrived about 4 months ago.
Dave does really nice work. Tom V.
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"Engineers do stuff for reasons" Tom Vaught Despite small distractions, there are those who will go Forward, Learning, Sharing Knowledge, Doing what they can to help others move forward. |
#110
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Yes they are Nick. And yes he does Tom. I'll be posting more soon as I'm finishing up my honey do list this week.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#111
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You may also want to consider using a ARP2000 stud for your heads, I have them on my race car with hp heads and are working great!
GTO George |
#112
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Working with Luhn Performance on ARP Head Studs. Super secret stuff.....
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#113
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Maybe Luhn outa talk with me! GGTO George |
#114
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The build looks amazing man. SPEED SAFE, NICK
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#115
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Yea, we have both. Can't wait to test them out
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#116
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What CR and fuel are you planning on running with on this build?
SPEED SAFE, NICK
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"The grass is not greener on the other side, its just fertilized with different $h!t" |
#117
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Should come in around 9:1 and we'll be using pump gas for the street and E85 for the track. Two fuel systems and 2 sets of injectors. Eventually we will run methanol exclusively. The dual fuel system is for Drag Week where we can only run E85 or race gas for the class we are targeting. For regular drag racing like Norwalk and the like, we will run Methanol. Lots to sort out. Finally finished my last honey do project yesterday and we'll be back at it shortly. I'll be posting building of the 4L80E, the engine completion, body and paint work and wiring this monster.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
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#118
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Finally back on the Bandit
After Covid reeking havoc on our household, my wife, myself and my son all came down with it. We are finally back in the garage. Fitting panels and fiberglass rear bumper. Then we blew the car apart and put it back on the rotisserie for final floor pan welding and then we're having a wire wheel/sand paper party to strip this thing back down to bare and shoot it with some epoxy primer.
It's been a tough couple of months for us and we're just now feeling up to it. My plan is to have color on it by Late April or early May. Hopefully have it on the track sometime in June. We'll see.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#119
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Oh yeah, we did manage to get the chassis cert in our down time.
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1964 GTO 501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs. 9.76 @ 137mph 1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115 1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112 1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159 2009 G8 GT |
#120
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Got any pictures of the oil drain routing for the turbos?
Normal downhill drain or are you using a return pump? Tom V.
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"Engineers do stuff for reasons" Tom Vaught Despite small distractions, there are those who will go Forward, Learning, Sharing Knowledge, Doing what they can to help others move forward. |
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