Thanks for the tip. The guy we got the trans from bought the full swap kit from American powertrain so we have all their hydraulics so we plan on adapting that to our application.

Hung the trans today modified the stock cross member , plumbed the coolant system and did fuel lines. Needs to be wired up and brakes then it pretty much ready to drive. I'm thinking within the next 2 weeks. I may be taking this to cruisin ocmd instead of my iroc

Nice progress. Is that just a flat piece of metal? you might want to add some metal to that cross member, i'm thinking that might flex.

Mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../IMG_5102s.jpg

its kinda hard to see in the pics but it isnt just a piece of flat stock welded to the bottom of the cross member. here is a pic of the weld highlighted, it has some bracing going up on the cross member. to me it seems pretty stout, let me know what you think,

As long as you have some. I didnt see it on that second pic above.

Which of those trans is yours? The first two pictures show a Magnum, then this one is an F-body trans and a completely different crossmember

The fbody picture is Scott's car.

The magnum is in my car with the cross member I made.

Here is one that I designed back in '08 when I built the 78. Used hiem joins on the ends for adjustability and ease of removal.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...PICT1643-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...8/PICT1647.jpg

That exhaust looks great. Is it custom? I'm gonna get started on that this weekend. Just going to do 3in dumps with gm performance bullet style mufflers.

Did the exhaust today today. Dual. 3in back to 2.5in into gm performance bullets. Nothing fancy but felt good to make it myself

First start was today. Still needs a bit more work but sounds great so far

RARE oval 3" w/ Spintech mufflers. After mufflers is custom bent

first test drive was today. this thing is pretty quick, a few things that need to be fixed, but hopefully registered and insured for the weekend.

Nice! Anything major? She's looking good from what I'm seeing on SnapChat.

nothing major really, just re-bled the clutch and adjusted the electric fans. need to re assemble the interior and do a detail on it

Well car was fine all week just driving up and down the street, got it registered and insured went out for a drive after about 30mins of cruising, not hooning... Got home and lost oil pressure in the driveway. Tried another mechanical Guage and nothing still.. So not engine is getting torn down

:-(

maybe check that the o-ring on oil pickup is in the proper place

I lost a motor like that:(

It was a oil pump issue. New pump is in and it's got perfect pressure. So far no further damage to the engine. Definitely a sigh of relief. I will continue to work the bugs out but looks like it's going to make it for ocmd.

Nice. Good luck with the trip.

I guess I should give a little update on how the car is doing. Made the trip to OCMD with 0 problems, didn't even happen to open the tool box and got 20mpg on the highway with the carb. Everytime I drive this thing I fall more in love with it. The ls3 with the small cam really speaks to me and is a hoot to pound on. The t56 magnum is smooth as butter and there's nothing like dropping it and 6th and chugging while all the oldies with their 4spd and th400s are screaming. I spooked and ran down a couple newer bmws and a Porsche and countless other bland cars too. Overall I'm really happy that this thing drives as well and comfortably as it does, it's really a car that is meant to get driven and gets driven hard, it probably has 2k miles on it in the past 8 weeks.

In addition to the time spent with my dad working on it together it also has inspired him take his 68 out more, something that rarely has happened since the cars been done. We can now drive into cruise nights together. He is even itching to 6speed swap it and promises his old iron 454 can keep up too

Fitting ending. Glad it's going well, Nick! That second pic is money!

nick that thing looks bitchin next time i'm in town at my house. ill have to stop by and check it out. been going there alot lately lol.