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I have never done a build thread and since everything got wiped out I thought I would do one on our current project. 
 

I picked up this car as a spare last season and the project started almost immediately and has been ongoing. Car started out as a 4 seat Gen 4 with 934’s, S5S and a Danzio Brutus motor. In my infinite wisdom I decided to put a 4.5 liter whipple on my 11:1 stroker motor and put the boost at 14 psi on E85. I took it to Turnkey and then Funco to cram the whipple in the car. Grant told me it was a bad idea but if we are going to do it let’s do it right. So we took the back seats out and put the big tank and the gen 6 radiator in the car. He then said well if you are going to chop up the car you might as well add the sway bar and do the new shifter. So we did with about a month until desert season. Once October hit I wanted my car to drive so I said we will finish this project next summer so wrap her up and leave her raw so she can go to Turnkey for Dyno. Car went to Dyno and then out to the desert. The motor lasted about 3 trips before I broke the crank shaft. Not anyone’s fault but mine. We drive our stuff hard and it was a old tired motor that I bolted a whipple on. Honestly, the blower motor was too much motor for the Gen 4 anyway. You couldn’t give the car 1/5 throttle in 5th gear at 2000 rpm without pulling the front tires off the ground. So I called Kolby at turnkey and asked what can you build me quick. He said I can have you a 525 crate ls3 with a Holley all tuned and ready to go in 3 days. I ordered it on the spot and 3 days later I motor swapped the car at road runner. It took about two days to have the car running once the motor was delivered. The the ls3 was bullet proof all season and was the perfect power for the car. All the wheelie pics I put on Instagram are from the ls3. Now to the project. I added the new air system while we were in Glamis. Next up I need some aluminum work to enclose the rear and create a nice big storage box. I plan on not doing doors and leaving the open driver and passenger seat for easy entry. Once I get that done the car will be torn down and sent off for a nice fresh black powder coat. Stay tuned! 
 


 

 

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Looks cool. Disregard the emoji guy was trying to like te thread .

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1 hour ago, One2go said:

Looks cool. Disregard the emoji guy was trying to like te thread .

Haha, no worries. I fat finger that stuff all the time. 

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Looks awesome. Cant wait to see more pics of the progress!

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9 minutes ago, Funco4JM said:

Looks awesome. Cant wait to see more pics of the progress!

Just waiting on the aluminum guy to fit me in. Hopefully soon, I am excited to tear into this thing and get rid of the yellow. 

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Looking forward to the progress.  My son, Jacob, and I spent MLK weekend following this car around the dunes, including an epic run from China Wall to Road Runner. Looks like a blast to drive.

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Awesome car!

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I cant wait to rally with this car next season! 

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2 hours ago, DZRTRUN said:

Just waiting on the aluminum guy to fit me in. Hopefully soon, I am excited to tear into this thing and get rid of the yellow. 

Nice!  I started to order some things for the purple car.  This summer will be all about getting it the way I want it, then next summer will be a full tear down for powder and paint.  

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Glad I got to see this project from the very beginning. You did more work to this car while in Glamis then I did to my car the entire season in my shop. 

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4 hours ago, Funco4JM said:

Nice!  I started to order some things for the purple car.  This summer will be all about getting it the way I want it, then next summer will be a full tear down for powder and paint.  

That’s probably a great idea. I loved driving that car. She is going to be amazing with a little love. 

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3 hours ago, L.R.S. said:

Glad I got to see this project from the very beginning. You did more work to this car while in Glamis then I did to my car the entire season in my shop. 

Haha, it was either swap the motor right there at RRE or I was going to be riding a cooler for the rest of the season. The air system install was fun too. Good thing the mountains were blue. 

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5 hours ago, kazuaki said:

Looking forward to the progress.  My son, Jacob, and I spent MLK weekend following this car around the dunes, including an epic run from China Wall to Road Runner. Looks like a blast to drive.

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Such a great day. Too bad I am still protesting Instagram because I would have a ton of great pics for the summer. 

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Man, somewhere I have pics of you doing the motor swap in G.  You're not giving yourself enough credit, it was a full motor, fuel system AND engine management system swap.  Looking forward to seeing this car when it's all done, should be a basically perfect duner. 

 

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15 minutes ago, tjZ06 said:

Man, somewhere I have pics of you doing the motor swap in G.  You're not giving yourself enough credit, it was a full motor, fuel system AND engine management system swap.  Looking forward to seeing this car when it's all done, should be a basically perfect duner. 

 

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Don't forget the on-board air system, plumbing and wiring install in Glamis. 

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17 minutes ago, tjZ06 said:

Man, somewhere I have pics of you doing the motor swap in G.  You're not giving yourself enough credit, it was a full motor, fuel system AND engine management system swap.  Looking forward to seeing this car when it's all done, should be a basically perfect duner. 

 

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I was determined to drive a car over New Years that is for sure. 60 beers, 3 days and a lot of cuswords later we were ripping though. 

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2 minutes ago, L.R.S. said:

Don't forget the on-board air system, plumbing and wiring install in Glamis. 

Haha, I probably had 20 people walk by and tell me I was out of my mind for doing everything right there in G. 

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16 minutes ago, DZRTRUN said:

Haha, I probably had 20 people walk by and tell me I was out of my mind for doing everything right there in G. 

And tell you "you can't do it that way" or "that'll never work" right? 

 

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1 hour ago, DZRTRUN said:

Haha, I probably had 20 people walk by and tell me I was out of my mind for doing everything right there in G. 

What else were you supposed to do? You two were literally homeless.

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Understand the determination.

We did a clutch swap on a Tatum Prerunner with twins and a whipple.  That was alot of plumbing to unhook/rehook!!!!!

Took about 4 hours in his enclosed.

Can't keep up with you and all of the different cars.  🙂

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2 hours ago, lincster said:

Understand the determination.

We did a clutch swap on a Tatum Prerunner with twins and a whipple.  That was alot of plumbing to unhook/rehook!!!!!

Took about 4 hours in his enclosed.

Can't keep up with you and all of the different cars.  🙂

I did a clutch on my Buggyworks in my first enclosed... but that was cake because it was a NA Honda.  

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8 hours ago, lincster said:

Understand the determination.

We did a clutch swap on a Tatum Prerunner with twins and a whipple.  That was alot of plumbing to unhook/rehook!!!!!

Took about 4 hours in his enclosed.

Can't keep up with you and all of the different cars.  🙂

I have a really bad problem with buying older funcos right now. Whenever one gets posted I have a border line panic attack if I should buy it or not. 

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17 minutes ago, DZRTRUN said:

I have a really bad problem with buying older funcos right now. Whenever one gets posted I have a border line panic attack if I should buy it or not. 

Have a gen4 suby I’ll be listing when I get time If you need to satisfy your addiction

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2 hours ago, thelawyer1 said:

Have a gen4 suby I’ll be listing when I get time If you need to satisfy your addiction

I like your attitude.

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