My new drag toy. 93 lx coupe carbed LS1/th400. (pics) by JRracing

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I've taken a little break from it. I'm waiting on the guy who is going to be doing the cage work. He was backed up at work and has not had the time to get this other car finished. But now he is back at it and wants three more weeks to get it done.

So I've spent some time on the camaro and painted the fire wall and strut towers. They had a lot of scratches from working on it in the tight space. I also polished the A/C lines and evaporator, they look pretty good. I also had my buddy put the new 4.10 motive gear in the 10 bolt. And put the other front shock back together. I just need to get the front shock put on and the rear end put in the car and it will be ready to put the motor and tranny back in.

Speaking of, I got the motor all put together with the Torquer 3 cam and ls6 intake with a ported TB. But when we were rotating the motor over and tightening the rockers, we noticed the springs almost looked to be in coil bind. The T v3 has more intake lift then the T Rex. So we need to pull some springs and check the installed height of them and see what the coil bind is on the Patriot gold springs. It looks pretty sitting on the engine stand though. I will snap some shots of it this weekend.

2-12-2008

Here is a pic of the ls1 out of the mustang, ready to go into the camaro.

3-5-2008

Update time, I spent some time finishing up the paint work on the engine bay. I also re painted the K member and A arms. I will be installing it back on the car tomorrow with the manual rack. I painted the engine bay the factory body color with dupont base/clear coat and did the outer wheel house with por 15. 

I also got it to my chassis guy and got the 8pt CM cage done and through the floor sub frame connectors. He also made me a new tranny cross member and made new motor stands on the K member. He busted *** with a friend and did it all in two days. I was shocked. There is a few things I'm concerned with but I will get them worked out. The seat needs to go back and down, it hits the door bars and the bar does not cross between my shoulder and elbow. So I need to get that resolved. And the tranny mount does not have the double humps in it for the dual exhaust. I will have to modify that.
But the guys work is kick ***.
I will get the cage and floor paited with por 15 when I get the seats worked out and make a plate for the shifter to sit on.