new to this site, hope you like my build

[MotorTrendz]

heres some pics of my project,
im new to this site so hope you like..
i picked the car up last spring for $600, it was an rs 6 cyl auto car with a blown motor and bad trans. the body was in fairly good shap overall, there was some typical inner fender rot in the rear and a little bit of cancer on the fender lip...

i took the motor, trans and rear out, i built a 383(385cu in) with a newer 350 corvette block 4bolt main, had my machine shop bore it .040 over fly cut it and deck it it.. the aligne bore was good surprisingly but i put a forged eagle internally balaced rotating assembly in it with 6in rods, and 10.2:1 pistons, had a set of aluminum vortecs ported and flowed with an rpm air gap intake. roller comp cam.(AFR 1054 heads and victor Jr on order)full legnth super comp headers with dual 2.5in exaust with H pipe and dual 3in offset flowmaster mufflers welded together in the stock location with the pipes running tight to the trans tunnel and over the axles on both sides, i used a serpentine pulley system out of a late model K1500 truck with high output altinator and custom A/C for those hot days(gotta love it!) I used a fan out of a stock taurus SHO dual speed fan that puts out abt 4800cfm on the high side for excelent cooling

the trans is a TCI th400 with upgraded sprag and man/auto valvebody, 3200 stall

i used a crossmember from UMI with driveshaft loop its a nice piece but i needed to elongate the mounting slots to fit the factory crossmember mounting holes.

the rear is out of an 02 formula 3.73 disk brake rear with moser axles and locker center section. i also used a UMI adjustable tubular torque arm. i used stock lower control arms but put urathane bushings and boxed them out and painted them black.

rear suspension is stock 6 cyl springs with a larger diameter swaybar(i think 22mm) with urathane ends and lakewood drag shocks

front suspension is z28 springs, no swaybar, stock K member and A arms, but A arms have urathane bushings and new balljoints, lakewood drag struts and wilwood brakes(just bought will be installed in abt a week)

im running the car on mickey thompson E/T streets 10x26 in the rear on draglites and 5.5 x15 rims in the front
i have a custom autometer dash and wideband O2, b&m mega shifter..

square steel stock fabricated for subframe connectors.

as of right now this is the only pictures i have in my computer but i have more in my wifes camera from the actual build just gotta upload them.
hope you like.. open to any ideas

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[coolmanvette75]

Welcome! looks like a sweet build. good luch with that 10 bolt rear though. they dont last too long with bolt on cars, none the less a full out race car.

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

Welcome, nice build! The only hope your 10 bolt has is that's it an auto

[MotorTrendz]

i welded up the tubes at the center sections, and have a carrier bearing support cover.. this car is more for the street than an all out drag car so its not gonna see too many wholeshots and im not running a trans brake.. or i would be worried too... ive had pretty good luck with them so far.. i made a big mistake abt 3 mo ago while trying to set up the carb right, i had this stumble/dead spot abt 30ft out of a 3000rpm foot brake launch.. and i was messing with the jetting and squirter combo and testing it after each change, after finally getting it i guess the tires got pretty sticky from letting them spin a little each time(those MT et streets are awesome!) the car dead hooked and went strait up, not expecting it i let out of it, i had just put a new windshied in the car, but still had the stock 6 cyl springs in the front, well when it came down it bottomed hard, broke my windshield and bent a strut.. what a mess.. but hey thats test ant tune right haha

i just bought a set of wilwood brakes from a member on here for a great price and also ordered a set of AFR heads 210cc runner cnc'd and ready to go, got the victor jr that i will port match.. ill probably pick up abt 60-75 hp over the vortecs i got on there now.. so im hoping the rear holds up... we'll see..

[maroman88]

welcome! third gens rule!

[Tru2Chevy]

Welcome to the club, sounds like a nice car. Which vortec heads are you running now?

- Justin

[thehazguy]

Nice project good luck with it

[Artful Dodger]

Nice job!

[MotorTrendz]

its the 190cc intake runner aluminum vortec 2.02 intake 1.6 exhaust 64cc chamber.. cleaned up and port matched to the edelbrock performer air gap intake..

[WildBillyT]

Welcome! Car looks awesome!

[aps63]

Hi,
I'm also new. Welcome.
Your car looks great. Good Luck with it.

[greenformula92]

welcome to the site! looks like a great project

[camaro2you]

Welcome!

[86ta-adf]

Welcome, car looks sweet

[NJ Torque]

Welcome.

[chrisfrom nj]

welcome