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

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the car is still up and running and doing good.

Dad drove it this weekend and he liked it a lot! 

I had the AC lines made today and just finished putting all the AC stuff on the car. 

Tomorrow we are going to put the new 3rd member in John's car and then Wednesday we are going to charge the AC in the GTO

Then Thursday we are off to Austin for the Lone Star Round up

Dad and I took a little road trip this weekend and put about 450 miles on it and everything was great and got good gas mileage too

I spoke too soon. dumDyno disaster todaydum

3/31/2011

It's back together and we did about a 30 mile drive and seems normal Tomorrow the exhaust will be fixed and then it will be easier to tell. Right now it's a 4" down pipe that's wide open and loud as hell

4/16/2011

this is the third pass 7.44 @ 95.87 leaving at about 2k rpm on cheap cheap cheap street tires

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60 FT 1.8474

330 FT 4.8920

1/8 ET 7.4428

1/8 MPH 95.87

4/25/2011

took it to the track last weekend.. 

best was a 7.44 @ 95.87 leaving at about 2k rpm

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60 FT 1.8474

330 FT 4.8920

1/8 ET 7.4428

1/8 MPH 95.87

see if ya'll can tell me what happens at the end of this vid

*its hard to tell but the car hits 3rd and then goes sideways WOW

5/18/2011

I bought a sway bar this weekend an just took it to the powder coated today. I'm hoping that will help with some ofthe off the line issues.

7/27/2011

Coming back apart 7/27/11 dum

Rod bearing is the thought we shall see

9/23/2011

Update is. It's sitting exactly as shown inthy last pick. It's been so damn hot I haven't wanted to work on it. Now that it's cooled down I'm getting the itch to work on it though ao shouldn't be too much long before the motor is out. I'm about 2hrs from pulling it. Just need to start working on it first

9/29/2011

I'm prob going to put in a different cam while I have it apart for bearings and maybe add a support bracket for the turbo and clean up the engine bay while it's apart Other then that it's all going to be the same and hopefully it will be back on the road soon

10/24/2011

still not much progress. John is supposed to come over this week to help me get it out and see how bad the damage is. Once the motor is rebuilt I promise I won't take as long to put it back together

11/11/2011

UPDATE: Finally got my lazy ass out in the garage and pulled the motor out and got the crank out. i saved the motor when I shut it down at the slightest sound of ticking. the number 1 rod bearing did not spin but it did haev a little of the bearing stuck to the crank.

I took it to the machine shop yesterday and they think they can get the bearing pieces off and polish the crank (not turn it) and I shoudl be good to go.

dad called yesterday and said he would love to drive the car the week of his birthday 12/12 guess i need to get this thing back together.

I also got that 1959 Galaxie back a couple weeks ago and it MIGHT be getting a litte 4.8 love this winter just so I have a FI reliable fun car to drive around

12/10/2011

IT LIVES

my dad's birthday is the 12th and he has been telling me for more then a month that it sure would be nice to be able to drive the car the week of his birthday. I keep telling im I know it would but I just haven't been able to mess with it. He was here just a couple weeks ago and saw it torn completely apart so he has NO idea that its done.

the people at the lake are having a surprise birthday party for him tonight so I'm going to pull up in the GTO

soooo if you know my dad (some of you do from his Matco route) don't tell him!

Just gave dad the car back and he was thrilled. We went for a drive and he was smiling ear to ear the whole time 

( these are all people from DFWMustangs.net)

Thanks again Cobraman (Jeremy), Splat (John) and BlueCoupeRedVert (Doug) I wouldn't have had a chance at this thing being done if you guys hadn't helped me put the motor back in Wednesday night 

And of course thanks to JOHN for helping be do every damn thing every time I work on anything  

( shitty pic taken at dusk with an iPhone 3g)