my buddy and i built the truck in my garage. He's a Boiler maker welder so i left all the welding up to the pro. lol. We used flipped stainless F-body mani's with a little fab they worked great.

Im desperately trying to find that camera guys. Seriously. It'll turn up. Prob in one of the ol ladys 25 purses. lol. Or maybe in the race trailor, i dunno. I am lookin tho i aint forgot.

 

FOUND THE CAMERA!! Here ya go. The start of the build. Towards the end got lazy and just wanted to get it done. So ill take some more of the finished product later.

The truck after tear down.




The old 2.2L caught some hell before we Yanked it out.


5.3 From the junkyard with 80k on the clock.



Gapping the upper rings to .0028


317 Heads



Precision 96lb injectors



Starting the Fuel system


Fabbed up a surge tank


Parts starting to roll in

 

The Snail




Turbo oil drain fitting on the pan


Building the Megasquirt




Lotta wiring when building your own harness


Dropping in the V8

Cut out the front cross member to clear the oil pan.


Motor in starting to fab up the cross over.


More pics to come. Too busy tuning and getting everything straightened out. i think in 10lbs its already maxing out the Walbro 255. Or its acting like it. Could be something else but its running out of fuel under boost no matter how much we fatten up the tune. Well find out. Twin pumps were in the plan anways.

 

That's awesome man. How much do you have in the build?

 

Need to add up a total again. But I think im around $5500 total after getting the converter and trans built. not sure tho. I may not want to know, lol.

 

hey man sorry to bump the old thread, but super interested to see the rest of the pics of the build to when it was finished.. I like how you were doing your piping

 

Im putting in a Isky cam and springs right now so Ill try and get some pics this evening of how we ended up running everything.

 

Got the cam and springs in. Heres a few pics of the set up.

 

That thing sounds nasty! Have you had a chance to get it to the track yet?

 

No time slips yet. Still on the welded stock 10 bolt for now. 8.8 explorer swap on the way. I just now got around to getting the valvetrain stuff it needed tho. Those stock cam and springs were junk. lol. So now gonna throw more boost, timing and some meth to it and see how it does. But main thing is, ive gotta get it to hook up somehow.
On 8psi with 14 degree of timing and the stock cam and springs it would just spin the 295 street tires at anything below 65mph. So ive got some suspension work to do and got some 28x11.50 slicks on the way. Hopefully that'll help with the traction issues.