Project 2G DSM, 8's and Street Driven

[blackpeople]

What's the purpose of the fittin on the head? Are you not going to run a T-stat?

[Ron@Revolution]

Even though I was sick all Christmas break still got some good work done on the car

[Ron@Revolution]

My new JM Fab block off plate Thanks Jim

[Ron@Revolution]

Sorry for no updates busy at work

Here's my new convertor, one more piece of the auto puzzel

[Ron@Revolution]

Just when I thought I had enough work ahead of me I decided to color match my cage, and change my interior color

[Ron@Revolution]

Machining a custom fitting into my JMF water pump block off plate

[Ron@Revolution]

Alot of people have been asking me if I will be turning the car in to a full out race car this year to accomplish some of my goals? Actually I'm going to try to make the car more streetable, and instead of taking out the interior and stripping the car I'm redoing the whole interior using a 7 stage professional dying system. I'm also updating the stock fabric door panels to leather, and replacing the old grey sun roof head liners with a non sun roof headliner and dying it also On the mechanical side I plan on adding an idle air control motor which I have been running without for the last 4 years. This should help the car on cold starts on E85.

Some of the interior pieces

[Ron@Revolution]

Originally posted by blackpeople
What's the purpose of the fittin on the head? Are you not going to run a T-stat?

Not a stock one

[Ron@Revolution]

Modifed my JMF block off plate to accept a AN fitting via a 1/2" NPT. Milled the hole, then machined a fitting to fit and tig'd the fitting into place

Milling hole for press fit fitting


Fitting machined for tolerance fit in block off plate also fitting tapered to enhance flow


Fitting pressed into block of plate


Fitting Tig'd to block off plate

[legendboy]

Originally posted by Ron@Revolution
Machining a custom fitting into my JMF water pump block off plate

I have the same lathe

[Ron@Revolution]

They work real well I'm just learning, and starting to get more into building parts then buying them

[legendboy]

Yep. standard modern lathes are really nice to run. I recently aquired a steady rest and taper attachment for mine too. pretty hard to find stuff

I have been doing machine work instead of car stuff for about 5 years or so.

Just in the middle of retrofitting a series 1 boss8 bridgeport with new controls. should be a sweet machine when its done

[craigcd]

Originally posted by legendboy
Yep. standard modern lathes are really nice to run. I recently aquired a steady rest and taper attachment for mine too. pretty hard to find stuff

I have been doing machine work instead of car stuff for about 5 years or so.

Just in the middle of retrofitting a series 1 boss8 bridgeport with new controls. should be a sweet machine when its done

Corey you used Mullen to move that bad boy? My buddy is the second man in charge there and his buddy owns it, could have hooked you up!

[legendboy]

frig! I think i paid 8 bills for that move

[craigcd]

Originally posted by legendboy
frig! I think i paid 8 bills for that move

Ouchy, sure you talked to my buddy Mike when setting it up.

[Ron@Revolution]

Hope to get some more work done on the car this week as I'm off work

[Ron@Revolution]

Found another grey silver headliner for a non sunroof and am switching it out for my sunroof headliner in my car. I dyed the headliner black should look alot better then the old one.

[Ron@Revolution]

Made some more progress on the cage today almost done heres a sneak peak

[Ron@Revolution]

So with the 5 or 6 projects going on at the same time I thought I would post some interior teaser pics

[Ron@Revolution]

Will you know the projects starting to get serious when the cooling system gets its own Turbo