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man has it been 5 months already!!! update time

well got some new slicks on :





but apparently i never noticed that the goodyears were 10.0 wide and not 10.5 like the hoosiers , so the tires would rub the inner fender lip.

so i got the fenders rolled and now i have room :



so after that was done i decided since the car is just sitting there that i would clean up the wiring , so i started rewiring some stuff , then i thought since i'm cleaning the car's interior wiring i might as well change the carpt , but since i was going to change the carpet , might as well do the roll cage first ,,,, see where this is going  

sooooo, this is where i'm at now 





so the plan now is to gut the whole interior, rip the old cage out , then sart with the new cage. while i'm doing that i'll be ripping the interior harness out as well.

a new chromolly cage will go in instead of this "home made" cage , i'll be using two Leash panels ( a sportsman for the lights and a pro for the rest of the stuff) to handle the electrical stuff in the car , i like how compact they are and how they will clean up the interior when done.
another thing a want to do is swap the engine and trans out . i have a freshly rebuilt LSX waiting to be bolted in as well as a 4L80 transmission and a circle D converter . the current 408 is tired and bad need a of a proper rebuild ( not just a bearing job) .

the problem is i can't swap them yet; i need to mock stuff up on the engine before i put it in .

i don't know if i posted its picture or not , but i have a front mount cog drive kit for this blower ( the kit that mounts the blower right above the waterpump ) that was only missing the adapter plate to mount it on an LS engine. so now i have the adapter plate on the way so i could finally mock it up on the engine.

the plan is to slap it on the engine , find a suitable place to mount the air to water intercooler on the engine and make brackets for that , finish making the charge pipe plumbing and BOV , only then i can drop the engine into the car.

after that offcourse i have to look into the cooling system and where to mount the  water pump ( which needs to be relocated ,,,,, and conveniently just came off my camaro ) and possibly a new radiator.

this should keep me busy for a while i guess