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icantdrift
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andysapp wrote:How did things go today? Good progress?!?
:D
didn't get a lot done today unfortunately... didn't wake up until late late and felt rather unmotivated until about 6pm :(.

the progress for today:
built the engine side mounts, used the inner portion of the stock "clamshell" that used to hold the rubber mount and used 3/16" plate to build the rest. just doing hotrod style solid mounts.
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picture of shifter alignment, the shifter will be close to centered in the stock hole but just about a half inch foreward. the cool thing about the T56 is that i can make my own shifter so i'll just make an S-bend shifter if the reach on it sucks.
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and i have to give a huge thanks to my friend Nick (spyder on here) for busting out his skills and making me a cluster with my gauges. we'll clean the appearance up later, but it's kickass and functional (and better than anything i could've made in an afternoon).
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final mounting will be done tuesday when i'm off work. i'll finish up the bottom mounts and do the trans mount.
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Guage cluster came out nice!
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down_shift wrote:Guage cluster came out nice!
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Werd! this thing is going to be awesome. :twisted:
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today's stuff....

made a throttle cable bracket to use the stock cable, as with most of my stuff it isn't pretty but it'll work.
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bolted up the motor side of the mounts to start working on the bottom mounts
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started just welding everything i could find to make lower mounts, in the end they aren't half bad.
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how they look in and together
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shifter alignment in the car
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finally finished the trans mount, it will be cleaned up with the excess steel cut off and some extra bracing done but it works as-is
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and the hotness shot :):):)
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there's still a ton of work to do, but the hardest is done.
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I love those covers. So when do expect to fire it up?
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depends on when stuff shows up
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looking good man.
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Holy sheeat dude this thread is getting radder by the update!!!
You're a maniac... maaaaniac.
Good lawd son.
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andysapp wrote: You're a maniac... maaaaniac.
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struka wrote:
andysapp wrote: You're a maniac... maaaaniac.
Michael Sembello?
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struka wrote:
andysapp wrote: You're a maniac... maaaaniac.
on the floor!! and your drifting like you've never drifted before!!! :D damn erin, nice progess man. Keep up the good work and keep us updated.
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God this makes me wish i had the cash to make my FC an LS1 Car...


Keep up the good work man, can't wait to see you destroying things in it....
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Post by slidewaysgolf »

heck yeah!!! That looks cool, i bet that thing is gona be a slideways monster. How does like the rear end and axels hold up to some good old fashion torque, or are you gona replace it?
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slidewaysgolf wrote:heck yeah!!! That looks cool, i bet that thing is gona be a slideways monster. How does like the rear end and axels hold up to some good old fashion torque, or are you gona replace it?
it's going to get a KAAZ but other than that the thing will be fine. i think i'm going to have to rock the VLSD one last time though, i really can't add any more installs to my plate before nopi or i won't finish in time.
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