Wagon Build.... LSX w/ single turbo

[Anonymous]

There is a new class starting up by me that is a 10.20 class. Capped e.t. Rules are pretty simple. Lights/horn/registered, 28" max tire dot or drag radial, stock suspension, no coil overs. Simple class. Some decent payouts considering the simplicity of it. 8 races over the year. Anyways, I had picked up a '93 T/A to build up, but a buddy had this car laying around so decided to build this. Just easier to work on overall and I always wanted one. So here is my DOO DOO brown haha

So into the garage it went.... getting stripped down in the engine compartment as well as the interior for Ron to do the cage.

Dirty as hell....

This is how you get engine mounts off!!! Burn the sh*t, haha.

Getting the heater core and A/C box out...

Old gas tank area...

 

[Anonymous]

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Then time to start stripping the interior... Suprisingly the floors were pretty damn solid.

Cutting holes for the cage

But of course, I had to pick this up only because I always thought a wagon with a cowl hood would be awesome, haha.

 

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So here will be the powerplant.

6.0L truck long block - $400 w/ coils to manifolds to pan

We just stripped it down to inspect. Everything looked good. Not bad for a 100k mile engine, haha. With how cheap you can find some of these truck longblocks, especially in the 5.3L variety, decision was made to just toss it back together with some new gaskets and maybe some ARP head bolts at the most.

Just cleaned it up roughly with the hone real quick. We'll see if it's workable without having to overbore it. Don't want to buy new pistons since I have all intentions of this blowing up, haha. It looks pretty bad in the photo, but I think it's just the lighting. It's still a smooth bore, haha.

Stock Piston:

Stock Rod:

Stock head after disassembly to take inventory of what's needed:

Little metal shavings are just cleaning up a lip that's right there on both intake/exhaust bowls.

And many have been consumed

Overall plans at this point are to get the block hot tanked and get the heads cleaned up as well. I will be getting the heads and the deck surfaced to make sure everything is flat. Then work out the bearing issue and maybe some new piston rings? Who knows, it's just a junk setup and stock stuff looks fine.

 

[Anonymous]

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New toys for it!!! YAY!!! Kinda at a stand still with this weather. I hate working out in the cold, but at some point I gotta realize we have less than 90 days left to finish it and get it out testing to make sure I could even hit 11.00, hahaha

New fuel pressure regulator:

Top view of carb:

I really have no ******* clue what to do with this thing though, hahahaha

What the hell is a jet? Nitrous jets I got a ton of them!

Thanks to Roger at C&S for building me this blow through carb!! Simple and effective Set up for e85

 

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The fun toy...

First shot at a hoop, and it worked great... But Ron wanted to get it a bit tighter.

And then the second main hoop, and he definitely achieved that goal.

Then some more of the rear down bars. Best part about the down bars, is that cutting that first main hoop in half, made perfect rear bars, hahaha. No tubing was wasted in the making of this cage.

Now getting the the front halo since he was setting it up for the 10pt.

And the front down bars

It's good to have knowledgable friends. There's the '08 Pump Gas Drags winner in the background Good blow-thru advice for sure

Not quite fully welded in, but set up nicely...

 

[Anonymous]

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Another HUUUUUGE thanks to Jim Plimpton(the guy in the photo in previous post) for doing the paint match on the cage. Yes, this IS the color I wanted it, hahaha. It was hard to match the paint to the shitty, faded, crappy plastic interior panels, but he did his best and it's awesome!

Since it is such a crappy car, Ron and I didn't really take the time to mask everything off well. Obviously when looking at the pics of Mark's Malibu you can see great care was taken on that one and I would say the paint on the bar is 100x's better than the paint on the actual CAR, ahha.

 

[Jordan81]

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if it end up looking like the pic in your sig, that would be so badass looking. kinda reminds me of copo's car and that super bad blue wagon with the 25.5 chassis... can't remember who built it

 

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Now on to the engine mock up. We are still doing the LS1 stuff since it's what I know and it's what I had available like the previous photos show.

Just getting it sat in there and mocked up for the motor plate and mid plate

It's ALL the way back up against the firewall, hahaha. Only a smidge of room

Starting the midplate

Stock truck pan clearance

Funniest thing in the world...

Now you see it...

Now you don't....

Perfect fit, haha. Well had to trim a LITTLE bit

 

[Anonymous]

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if it end up looking like the pic in your sig, that would be so ###### looking. kinda reminds me of copo's car and that super bad blue wagon with the 25.5 chassis... can't remember who built it

I appreciate the compliment! It's gonna end up getting some clean up and painting and hopefully look like the rendering. That's the overall plan for it. Definitely doing the steelies on it hahaha

And yeah, NRC's wagon is pretty much a motivator on this one and a perfect example on how to do these. This one just won't be that fast, haha

 

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now for the fun stuff....

A HUGE thanks to Ron's cousin (little J) for making up the flanges

I do need to pick up another set of manifolds as one of them is actually cracked. Just have to run up by bad cutt to get them!

This is just some mock up stuff just to see if it'd fit and what bends would be needed and how many.

Always wanted it like this, but don't know if it's actually going to end up there. Only because of space constraints as well as cooling since it'll be a "street" car.

Now this is as far as we have got. Haven't done much in the past month with work being a bit busy and it is WI and I don't have a heated garage like my buddy. Majority of the pics were taken in his back shop garage. Water heated floors are AWESOME in this -20* Wisconsin weather