andysapp wrote:How did things go today? Good progress?!?

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.




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.



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).



final mounting will be done tuesday when i'm off work. i'll finish up the bottom mounts and do the trans mount.

Guage cluster came out nice!

Werd! this thing is going to be awesome.

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.


bolted up the motor side of the mounts to start working on the bottom mounts


started just welding everything i could find to make lower mounts, in the end they aren't half bad.



how they look in and together


shifter alignment in the car


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


and the hotness shot :):)




there's still a ton of work to do, but the hardest is done.

I love those covers. So when do expect to fire it up?

depends on when stuff shows up

looking good man.

Holy sheeat dude this thread is getting radder by the update!!!
You're a maniac... maaaaniac.
Good lawd son.

struka wrote:

andysapp wrote: You're a maniac... maaaaniac.

Michael Sembello?

struka wrote:

andysapp wrote: You're a maniac... maaaaniac.

on the floor!! and your drifting like you've never drifted before!!! damn erin, nice progess man. Keep up the good work and keep us updated.

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....

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?

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.