I am starting my conversion to turbo. The 393W, 5 speed and 4.11 posi are coming out to be replaced with a custom B & G PT-88 kit on a R349.

Combo will be:

349" - 4.135 x 3.25
R302 block - Now Dart SHP
Crower billet crank, internal balance - now a Lunati Voodoo
Oliver 5.4" steel rods
Custom JE dish pistons 8 to 1 compression - now 9:1
TFS R cylinder heads
Cam Motion custom turbo cam - 226/220 @ .050" .541/.542" w/1.6 rockers - now an F303
Crane vertical tiebar lifters
Comp Cams Promagnum 1.6 ratio rockers
Victor Jr intake manifold
C & S carb 850 carb - next CSU 750 - now FiTech 1200
EV carb hat with spacer
Titan Engineering oilpump
Victor waterpump
Fluidyne alum rad

B & G Custom PT-88 kit now a PT7675 or a PT8285
50mm Tial blowoff valve
2x 38mm Tial wastegates dumped to atmosphere - now a 50mm JGS
3.5" downpipe Ying into 2 3" pipes to 2 3" welded Utraflow mufflers to 3" Flowmaster tailpipes
825 hp intercooler

PE Magnum Jr fuel pump
Aero 132-02 regulator
-10 pump to reg
-6 x2 to fuel bowls
-10 return

JW turbo 400 rollerized with JW converter 4000 stall, steel stator and dual antiballooning plates

9" diff with 3.00 gears
Truetrac
31 spline axles
205/60VR15 BFG
255/60R15 Mickey Thompson ET Street R

 

Here are some pictures of the car before the build begins.

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The disassembly is nearly complete. Tomorrow the roll bar goes in and a transmission crossmember for the TH400 gets fabbed. Also hopefully I can mount the fuel pump and finish the battery box install.

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nice!

 

those magical blowthru builds

 

Are you going to mini tub and narrow the rear? You'll want to later if you don't.

 

makes me miss my 82 gt it ought to be fun I had a bbf in mine

 

No minitubs, I am altering this car too much already. I hate to do it but the car will not handle this kind if power without some chassis stiffening. A little more safety for me is good too.

As for fun, I'm sure it will be!

Kent

 

Some progress today. I got all the reinforcement plates for the rollbar welded in and well as the main hoop and cross bar. I was going to do the front bars but I ran into a problem. The seat adapters for my Sparco Sienna seats lift me up so high that I couldn't sit in the car with my helmet on! So the seat base will have to be dropped about 1-2", as much as possible anyway. This is a Wolfe Racecraft bar with 2 removable swingout side bars. Expensive but worth the price. It fits perfectly. The only change that had to be made was cutting 1/2" off of the main hoop for height reasons. It also has the dropped door bars to clear the armrests on the doors.

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Brian @ B & G called me tonight and said that my kit was finished and ceramic coated. It should leave tomorrow! I can't wait to see it!

 

Some more progress today. Got the roll bar completely welded in. Now all it needs is paint. Sure am glad that I bought one with the swingout door bars. It is near impossible for me to get in without them!

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A couple of pictures of the new parts. JW Turbo 400 w/Ultrabell, Sparco Sienna seat and C & S carb.

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Looks good man, glad to see it coming along!

 

Thanks Pat, it will get there slowly but surely. If I could just convince FEDEX to deliver my parts things would go a lot quicker. My cylinder heads were shipped by Brian back to me on Jun 26, they are still not here 3 attempts later. They say that maybe on Friday. Brian, Teasha and I all want to kill/maim many FEDEX employees. What a joke! > > Of course the machine shop couldn't finish assembly on the engine until the heads get here. So I am a little behind.

Kent

 

Anyway 1 of the 4 boxes Brian shipped on the 19th arrived. These were inside. The box was nearly destroyed but the contents are in perfect condition.

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Time to bring this thread back to life. The engine is finished, dyno'd and home now. No power pull though, the dizzy gave up at 4:30 on a friday afternoon.

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At home and ready to install.

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But when I start to install it, the kickout on the oilpan hits the hardline for the powersteering rack 3/4" before the motor is on the mounts. So time for a Flaming River rack.

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The rack installed and the engine finally sitting in the car.

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Some small progress today. The transmission is in without the assistance of the BFH! I am surprised that no mods to the tunnel were needed. The wastegates are installed, the pipes are mocked up for intercooler install and other small items put in place. Happily the hood will close with the hat on however the pipe from the wastegate to the hat was hitting the hood. I will talk to Brian tomorrow and check a few things. Hopefully it will be a simple fix. No pics today, I forgot the camera at home and the shop is a 30 minute drive.

Kent