Unfortunately the hacking probably won't start until after the holidays since I have real estate classes in the next couple weekends and the car is at my buddies due to lack of space at my house.
What I'm looking at doing is making this a fun streetable track car on a budget. The car itself was $1100.
The main thing is that the mechanical fuel pump has a leak which will be replaced with a stock unit which is about $25.
This car has a 350 already but with the stupid little GM Quadrajet carb since he was going to run it in stock eliminator at first which that plan changed. Right now my buddy said I can have his Holley 650 for nothing since it's just sitting around. He also has a rebuild kit for it. So there's the start to the budget build. Now it's a 350 but the 906 Vortec heads are going to be put on there which means a different manifold will be needed. Also to note the Vortec heads don't allow for much lift for the cam, so I'm kind of limited with that. Looking at Edelbrock manifold as long as it's an 8 bolt hole manifold compared to the typical 12 on the older 350s. The car has open headers right now, so I will look for cheap Flowmaster mufflers probably to do the job along with turndowns on it. It doesn't have a heater or power steering right now which will be eventually put back on. The 10 bolt rear has 2.73 gears which will be changed out to a Monte Carlo SS rear that has posi and 3.73s. That will be no more than $200.
Other things to note on the car is a Turbo 350 with 220 stall converter (don't know brand). It has some other little odds and ends things that would add up such as trans cooler, Competition Engineering drag shocks and air bags.
Current goal with this car is to put the car into the 13s at least for now and maybe push for 12s down the road. Hoping to do all of this under $2000 and that's including the price of the car too. I will have to get interior pics when I can.
What I'm looking at doing is making this a fun streetable track car on a budget. The car itself was $1100.
The main thing is that the mechanical fuel pump has a leak which will be replaced with a stock unit which is about $25.
This car has a 350 already but with the stupid little GM Quadrajet carb since he was going to run it in stock eliminator at first which that plan changed. Right now my buddy said I can have his Holley 650 for nothing since it's just sitting around. He also has a rebuild kit for it. So there's the start to the budget build. Now it's a 350 but the 906 Vortec heads are going to be put on there which means a different manifold will be needed. Also to note the Vortec heads don't allow for much lift for the cam, so I'm kind of limited with that. Looking at Edelbrock manifold as long as it's an 8 bolt hole manifold compared to the typical 12 on the older 350s. The car has open headers right now, so I will look for cheap Flowmaster mufflers probably to do the job along with turndowns on it. It doesn't have a heater or power steering right now which will be eventually put back on. The 10 bolt rear has 2.73 gears which will be changed out to a Monte Carlo SS rear that has posi and 3.73s. That will be no more than $200.
Other things to note on the car is a Turbo 350 with 220 stall converter (don't know brand). It has some other little odds and ends things that would add up such as trans cooler, Competition Engineering drag shocks and air bags.
Current goal with this car is to put the car into the 13s at least for now and maybe push for 12s down the road. Hoping to do all of this under $2000 and that's including the price of the car too. I will have to get interior pics when I can.
