My other project- 1989 Base Model Firebird

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GarrettGmc

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I cant remember but did u mention what you envision the car setup? Daily driver or street/track?
 

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I haven't taken many pictures lately of what I have been doing, and I forgot what all I have done since my last update.

Coilover conversion on the front
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Made a strut tower brace to go along with the coilovers. It has a sandwich plate on the strut tower and the firewall braces are spaced enough to allow me to fit my hood scoop.
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Added a little more metal to the ball joint area of the stock control arms.

I really need to get more pictures of my progress. Soon I will be making a new dual exhaust with stainless headers.
 

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I've done a few things on the car, but with school starting I am a little bogged down. I couldn't get the oil pressure gauge in my Intellitronix cluster to work properly. I tried a new sending unit and everything, so I just got an auxiliary gauge to mount on an A- pillar gauge pod.

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I cut a hole in the stock one and used scraps from a broken fender liner to melt together and make this guy.
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I ended up putting a remote mount oil filter in it. I need to get a picture of it, but I put it on the passenger side firewall.
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Got my cheapo Ebay stainless headers in. Aside from some filing needed on the bolt holes, they seem pretty good. I had to make a new dipstick, move some wires around a bit, and I need to get some better spark plug wires and a set of heat shield boots yet.

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The exhaust I had built off the factory manifolds has to go now that I have headers. My first attempt was a set of homemade mufflers.
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The header flange and a short section of tubing with the flex coupling is my "permanent" exhaust. Then there are V-band turbo flanges. The idea is that I can make multiple exhausts that can easily be swapped without jacking up the car. my homemade mufflers consisted of a piece of split tubing, boxed up, with V baffles welded inside. Really was no better than open headers and the exhaust smell wafted into the cabin.
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Now I am making a proper exhaust with a set of chambered mufflers and side exits by the rear wheels.
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I have also decided to add some more stiffening measures to the car. Here is the start of a roll bar extension.
 

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Was wondering how you felt about the intellitronix dash? I'm attempting to put one in at the moment and its been a headache... I love the way they look though.
 

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Was wondering how you felt about the intellitronix dash? I'm attempting to put one in at the moment and its been a headache... I love the way they look though.
I like it, looks cool and it's very easy to read. Bit of a pain to install though. I ended up making a standalone harness for the gauges.
 

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Finished up the roll bar structure
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Made a proper exhaust to compliment my headers

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With a set of KYB rear shocks installed, the suspension and chassis portion of this build is more or less wrapped up. Car handles super. Now it needs more power.:driver: L05 block, vortec rods and valetrain, flat top pistons, Blueprint heads all topped off with an Eaton M112 supercharger on a ported Crossfire intake manifold.

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