Wish I had shot a video like that! LOL That was awesome... Had mine running for the first time with the exhaust welded on yesterday, and it sounds like a seriously raped banshee.. I love these things! I just read the whole build thread, but don't remember seeing any info on the intake tube - well, saw it was a 60* bend, but any info on where it's from? Looks like a great fit. One of the last things I have to do, right now it's dryer duct. LOL
Kind of odd, but I saw someone's Poly suspension thread a few minutes ago, where you had a picture of the Poly "ring" sitting on your rear clip and I could have *swore* that was my old SC car! I had to do a search to prove myself wrong! (which is why I just found / read the whole build thread..) The color in that pic was exactly the same as my car, down to the stock blue color underneath where the GT trunk gasket was... Even the trunk cutout looked exactly the same. Only thing different was the blue wiring harness. I also saw the rear tie rod and thought "what the hell happened to that axle?! It's tiny!!". LOL Too many gas and welding fumes.... Awesome job man!!

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Bob Williams
Working on the next 3800 swap, it works now!!!

Some progress on the Exhaust system, heat shields for it:





Click here to watch 3800sc-swap-Exhaust-system-on

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quote Originally posted by darkhorizon: Get your scanner out, you are missfiring, or running a very agressive untuned cam....... there is alot of idle problems, it seems to catch itself alot, typical symptom of bad spark. You will notice a "falls on face" at like 4k rpms the first time you take it out I'd imagine.

I need to buy a new cable for the scanner, I have the spark plugs gapped to .060, there is some intake leak right now (couplings on the intake tube arent tightened down)

as for todays projects, first was to clean the garage and pack away extra stuff that was not needed, and then onto the dreaded p/s axle. I disassembled the axle I had made, and disassembled the other axle I had, P/S GTP or DR/S GTP axles I lost track, but the one I had made up previous was aprox 1 inch longer, causing problems with fit, so I used the other axle and wow its a little compressed but it works!


heres a pic of finished axle/strut assembly:

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Late start today as I was beat from working this weeks 90-100 degree 100% humidity summer heatwave ~ but my son and I got some stuff done:

connecting the strut tower:



Trunk monkey tightening down the blockoff plate where the rear blower used to sit:


Trunk floor totally sealed up now, also holes from the blower sealed up with blockoff plates, hole for the blower (rubber plug stopper electrical) and you can see the blockoff plate the trunk monkey was doing in the last trunk pic:




and a pic of the car with my sweat rag:

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Daughter was helping out tonight:


and son also:



after installing the new windshield we put the front stuff back on

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