1979 Fairmont Drag radial/x275 project - "The Cream Dream V2.0" by tirefryin_s10 & bmxarmy

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Here is a few of the pics I took of the car.

4-15-2012

Well updates have been in order for a little while now but honestly the stuff ive been working on hasnt been overly picture worthy.

What I have been rockin away on is wiring... So far I got basically the entire car wired for the following:

Flaming river push pull battery disconnect mounted under trunk.

Head Lights
Signals
brake lights
Reverse lights to shifter/trans brake
ignition switch
Starter wires
Racepak and 2 seperate trigger switches (one inside car and one in rear of car)
Boost leash boost controller
PP shifter with trans brake/neutral safety
Holley efi(power/grounds,tach output signal,can bus wires to digital dash)
Holley Digital dash
Line lock
Boost controller activate and IC pump


I don't like a bunch of toggles etc so I wired the old wiper switch to do the following:

turn it to LOW - line lock on
turn it to High - Boost controller and Intercooler pump on
Pull the "spray" - Momentary ground via a relay to trigger the record on the racepak

Gonna try and get it all finished up asap and ready to get the new engine in when its done.

Nolan also banged out some more of the intercooler piping and I bought some mls Head gaskets for the new mill and some nice clean Zephyr tail lights to replace the fairmont ones.

More updates coming soon!

4-17-2012

Quick update from last night.

I started to fit up the I/C piping that is going to act as a console for the car as well as a place to hold the shifter and cup holders.





More to follow. Safe to say time is growing short for the goal of being done for the first weekend of June.

4-25-2012

Update :

Turbos,Blow off valves,Wastegates,Turbo flanges,Drain flanges all ordered BIG THANKS TO ROB @ MODULAR TURBO

Tonights task is rebuilding my powerglide and adding some better parts to make it capable of somewhere around 1800hp.

Head gaskets are also here now and new cam and lifters should be ordered today or tomorrow so hopefully the engine will go back together asap and we will get this bitch running!

4-26-2012

Update!

I have been busy working on a couple other side projects but decided the fab on the cream dream has been lacking.....43 holes later we have a light weight shifter bracket! haha, Next time neil is over he can sit in the car and I can weld it down for good, Hopefully we can get some more work done this weekend. I know Neil has the powerglide ready for action and rated for more than 2000whp!

5-3-2012

Sorry guys not much in the way of updates right now, Been flat out busy at work tuning cars for customers etc. Also been busy trying to get my house ready to get sold and move into something closer to work etc.

Camshaft is on the way, Lifters are about a week or so out
Donny bailey @ Dads intercooler tanks is making me a bad ass custom tank as we speak
Turbos /gates etc are all on the way from Modular turbo.

Hope to have some more updates asap!

5-9-2012

Well we did not get a lot of pictures because really things like this are much better in person then on a computer screen but here is what we got done last night:

Finished out the entire rear area including:

Carpeting the rear panel,installing intercooler water lines,installing custom rear panels and putting it all together as one.






Next up we powered up the entire car and tested everything including the following:

Headlights(still need pig tails put on)
Taillights
Signals
Marker lights
Brake lights
Horn
Racepak
Racepak trigger(off wiper switch and/or button on rear of car)
Intercooler pump relay
Neutral safety switch
line lock
Holley touch screen dash
Boost leash boost controller
Overhead gauges

So far everything works awesome with the exception of one wire that loses power during cranking so overall I am quite happy with that with the ammount of wiring in this thing to only need to change ONE wire around is pretty good to me!

The push pull lever through the bumper will only be on at the track and will otherwise be off, Now that all of this is done we can start looming all of the wiring and tieing it up for good and move onto the engine side of things.

Also going to install the rear and 1/4 glass asap as well.

HUGE THANKS to Don Bailey from Dad's Intercooler tanks for building me a BAD ASS tank like always in a VERY short time frame:

5-12-2012

Neil is that your dash or a tuning tool??

5-22-2012

wooooo! We have got a lot done really.....Small but it is the little things that kill it in the end, we got the front grill, headlights, and bumper all mounted up today, also had a sloppy Friday night.....( random booze before cars night) but we did manage to get the rear glass and trim installed. Big help and work provided by Neils Mrs, Leanne. She labored on the the trim for a long time while keeping Neil and I's drinks full! I dont have any pics.....Maybe Neil can throw some up

5-23-2012

Nolan is right, we have been making some progress and there is also some progress being made out of my hands right now ..... HUGE thanks need to go to a LOT of people on this thing but here is a few of the big ones :

Leanne
Nolan
My Family
FPS Designed horsepower
Jb's Power Center/Dix performance
All my Horsepower Solutions crew
Alamo Turbochargers
Modular turbo
Performance Fuel Injection
Enviro Air tech
Rick SParks @ Comp Cams
The Tint Factory
Dads Intercooler Tanks
ETC ETC ETC

Anyway on to the updates:

Flyin Ryan is building the engine now
Alamo Should have my new turbos end of this week or early next week
Radiator/water pump/Fan is on the way from phil thomas
Converter shipped from PTC yesterday

Here is the progress from the weekend :



Bad ass tank/rule 2000 pump combo from Donny Bailey @ Dads intercooler tanks,Since this pic I finished the return hose up through the floor and into the top right of the tank:

Leanne is always an awesome help, she has no problem jumping in with both hands and getting dirty! She did the carpet on her side of the car and also kept us hydrated with some type of vodka lemonade treat!

Next up me and Nolan stuffed the rear window in the car along with the trim that leanne prepped for us:


Couple pics of us goobers slipped in there thanks to leanne lol

By this point it was about 2:30 am and we had all had plenty of wrenching and plenty of cocktails.... even bella was partying with us LOL:





We also got the whole front end fit and mounted on the car (grill,headlight buckets,bumper) It all still needs to be cleaned up/modified for turbo inlets and painted etc but we just wanted to get it all fit first adn foremost.