Where to start? I bought this a few years back and finally started throwing wrenches at it. Got #707 for $300, but wound up costing that much more in fuel towing it back with the V-10 Dodge ram. It appears to have some damage in the front and rear, so i've decided to make this the "racer" of my collection.
I'll post more info on the engine later, here's a few pics for now.
The turbo i'm gonna use vs a mitsu turbo.
Last edited by Shelby5150; 02-15-2011 at 10:36 PM.
A super tweaker tore the engine harness off the firewall a week prior to getting the new engine dropped in. I don't really have the time to do the job right, so the engine bay got a quick degreasing and sanding. After laying down some primer, i sprayed it with Dupli-color Engine Enamel w/Ceramic. Curious to see how the paint holds up.
oh i love the pbodies, Dupli-color stuff is surpizingly good in my experience. didnt wanna pull the harness eh? its not too bad, remove seat, steering column, kick panel unplug stuff. you might not even have to take out the steering column. its about the same amount of time it takes to mask off the wires.
car looks nice and solid. peace.
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Progress with one of the P bodiesNice job man.
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Oh, i'm a noob and didnt know that. But i have been going bigOriginally Posted by raccoon
And thanks for the compliments!
Before: fugly
After: brand new bearing/hub assembly and seal. powdercoated knuckle.
Lookin good
Yeah, i should have done this a long time ago. But i've decided to devote all my free time to wrenching on the whittier cars first and foremost.Progress with one of the P bodies
Before:
After: I powder coated the bracket Silver Vein Metallic and installed spiva bushings. Junkyard nippon denso rebuilt at a local ND authorized shop (he said it was capable of 120 amps!). Ground kit from FWD.
Last edited by Shelby5150; 02-18-2011 at 11:05 PM.
Are you really going to run that turbo?
As Presley once said, Thank you thank you!Lookin good
Before: wtf chrysler, ran out of paint? going for an all organic rust effect?
After: Completely disassembled the shifter. Powder coated the white bracket, rest was painted with VHT Case Paint. And of course poly shifter bushings.
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Yeah! just trying to figure out how to mount it without breaking the exhaust mani.
Just kidding!! Got that thing for cheap/free. Thought it would make for some funny pics at the very least. freakin thing is nearly as big as the tranny. probably turn it into a turbine engine and adapt it to the input shaft on the a520.
My assistant isnt very good at passing the right tools and hardware... I've never seen confusion look cuter
Old:
New:
Sandblasted & painted:
Original GP's
Disassembled the strut bearings, cleaned and regreased with Mobil synthetic.
Painted the springs and greased the shaft (girlfriend caught me and said i'm having way too much fun greasing my shaft).
Last edited by Shelby5150; 02-25-2011 at 04:36 PM.
Nice job! Keep up the good work!
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This fugly beast got yanked out screaming bloody murder
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Cleaned up the starter harness. Used some neato Convoshield heat reflective loom and self fusing silicon tape to keep things as they should be.
Sandblasted and powdercoated the brackets. Painted the calipers with the first high temp paint i could find. Then decided they were too shiny and blasted em with 1500* paint.
Box o rotors newly surfaced.
I want to use this filter and i thought about inserting two neodymium hard drive magnets to trap metal for further inspection. I tested my idea and found that having the magnets in the middle cavity is a bad thing cause it stuck to the hole and would have blocked the flow. So one magnet on each side in the outer cavity looks like it will present no problems with flow. What do you think??
WOW very nice work man! can't wait to see the final product! I would love to do this to many of my cars! goodluck with the build
If you've got a good neo magnet you should be able to put it on the outside of that case and still trap stuff.
Thanks!! I like your t-top!!! i also have a 568 and was thinking about the shifter length. any taller and it'd be the picture perfect car for Rat Fink to driveMock GLH installed the quaife since i'm total newb. He works too fast, that's my excuse for not cleaning/painting the tranny.
Well, i thought about it, but the case is aluminum and would have had to fab up some hose clamps. Plus the cooling fins would prevent close contact unless turned sideways which would then minimize surface area. They dont slide down the outer chamber far enough to interfere with the holes/flow.
Installing an oil pressure gauge. I've got lots of these -4AN lines which needs to be put to good use.
So i located a nice spot to drill a hole. Painted it to make sure it doesnt rust.
Installed a -4AN bulkhead fitting.
Line installed. looks close to the turbo, but lots of room.
Looks like a fun project!
Where you put the bulkhead fitting is where the automatic tran shift cable would go.....but since it didn't have one
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Looks great!
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "white knuckles"!After: brand new bearing/hub assembly and seal. powdercoated knuckle.
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keep up the good work. I am anticipating lots more updates with goodlooking parts!
Dude,seriously,is that turbo off of an aircraft?
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