1969 GTO Judge Clone LQ4 turbo 4L60e by 2165 Turbo Rail

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the drivers side goes under the car and then up to the bottom of the pass side log manifold

12/23/2010

I got a few toys in the mail today

4" Stainless Steel cut out

12/26/2010

well I got a few little things done tonight. I took the gauge cluster apart because it needed a new circuit board on the back (its one of those laminated type) while I had it out I went ahead and took it all apart and cleaned everything. It looks WAY better. I think I am going to order a new clear plastic lens because its scratched up a little bit but not bad

this is the old circuit board

the pod on the far right is a blank in this car, some cars had a clock. I used this pod for the 2 5/8 boost gauge. I think it turned out pretty nice. It is the closest gauge I could find to match the stock gauges.

I did some other little stuff that isn't very interesting so I didn't take pics.. hopefully tomorrow night a lot more will get done.

1/7/2011

Slowly but surely. We keep taking nights off. Like the last three! We are making progress though. I ordered a 13" big brake kit and some new upper and lower control arms for the new rear end. 

I also ordered the box from Abbott that makes your speedo work ( has a motor that reads the computer pulses and turns a mech cable). 

The new carpet is ready to go in. 

I am going to finish "dyno-matimg" the floor tomorrow

We STILL haven't touched the fuel system under the car yet. And need to swap rear ends out when the control arms get here. The harness is in just needs a couple wires connected under the dash hooked up

I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting

installed the new kick panels with speakers and of course the e-brake pedal hits BAD.. so I knocked the pad off and moved it all the way toward the middle of the car as far as it would go and then welded it back on the pedal arm. It looks crooked in this pic but its not... its still close to the speaker but doesn't hit now

put the drivers side manifold on to discover that the oil pressure sending unit lines up just perfect with one of the bolts in the manifold. So I had to do a little fabricating and made an extension to move the sending unit toward the front of the car on the other side of the manifold but of course I didn't get pics after I was done

***EDIT***
here is what I ended up doing to fix this issue.. its not the prettiest but no one will ever see it

the wires were a little close to ... EVERYTHING... on the pass. side with the turbo set up. I had ordered 8 of the lava plug wire boots but ended up using 2 on each of the pass. side wires so that the wires are 100% covered from the head all the way to the coils

This pic is from the front of the motor 

this is from the top