For those of you familiar with Sloppy Mechanic, you'll get the title reference.
For those not in the know, Sloppy Mechanic is all about going fast and making big power with junkyard LS parts and cheap chinese turbos. He did a series to run a 8.XX pass for $8,000.
With the new hotness in North America being "drag and drive" events (street legal cars doing multiple drag strips over multiple days) and the innaguaral Miles of Mayhem popping up last year in Western Canada (only drag and drive event in Canada) I set out on a quest to build me a big ol' murikan v8 drag car.
Step 1, buy a car
Drag racing is can be a special kind of pain on the wallet nowadays due to the incredible power you can make for cheap. Where once a lot of $$$$ was spent on the engine, now its spent elsewhere making sure everything can survive the almost unlimited power potential a turbo LS presents.
While a purple 1994 LT1 Firebird with t-tops was not my first choice of car, the fact it had no drivetrain, a custom ordered Moser 9", and was $2000 made it a no brainer (the rear end alone was worth about $4k to order)
Size matters (heh). Making big power for cheap, there is no replacement for displacement. Had an inexpensive 6.0L LQ4 and a 4L80E from a 3/4 ton van.
Problem is, truck intakes (and most others) generally won't fit under the cowl of a 4th gen fbody. And if I'm going to buy an intake, its going to be for rec-port LS heads. So the engine got a set of 400k km LY6/LS3 cylinder heads and a LS3 intake. Supposed to be worth 50hp alone over the stock heads.
Nasty valves are nasty, so some valve lapping was done to clean things up. Kind of lipstick on a pig situation, but hey, this is the pig I'm stuck with for now, if its a pig that holds compression I'm happy.
There is a massive amount of disassembly in doing something like this. Tripped over this stupid crossmember for weeks as I had nowhere to put it.
That's it for now, more to come.