Red Headed Stepchild-75 Swinger LSX Swap

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Updated pics.

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Cant stop this build.

Also decided since it's a street strip car, and since I've had one spinal surgery and barely avoided a second, my weathered and aged beyond its years body will appreciate some swing outs. So those are ordered up and will be going in. Next up is the engine bay bars.

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Trans cooler, electronic cut outs, all the fuel line showed up tonight. Frozen boost ultimate drag kit shipped out today, and my jegs ssr spike 15x10 7.5 bs wheels from jegs shipped out today as well too.

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Plenty of new parts came in yesterday.

The new 15x10 7.5"bs jegs ssr spikes
The 4 inch vband clamps and flanges for the start of the downpipes
The oil drain and feed fittings for the turbos.
The swingouts for the cage

I also decided against that aeromotive in tank fuel pump setup. Mainly because if I ran that pump out of fuel I would have been in the same boat as my previous tanks inc setup. So instead I ordered a standard Rhodes race car 15 gallon cell for the trunk with a standard sump.

Fuel cell and the frozen boost a2w intercooler kit will be there monday. But the swingouts, front bars in the bay will be sone this weekend and hopefully some more progress on the subframe connectors and minitub.

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Little more cage progress. Interior cage was brought down and finish welded. Bars are run up forward as far as the shock towers. Working on the final front bars. Took a littlenthinknwith what were trying to do with turbo placement and a2w I intercooler setup and piping wise. 10lbs of stuff in a 5lb sack up there, even with no fenderwells.

The a2w intercooler setup got delivered Monday as well as the fuel cell. Will have pics up once he sends them to me.

And trailer progress. When I got it there was a ton of guys on the floors so inwanted to.pressure wash it and see how much was surface and how much was just little surface mess. I treated it with some concentrate . Degreaser yesterday and let it sit for about 30 mins then pressure washed it. Very happy with how it came out after just one treatment. I may do one more soak and pressure wash before I coat it with the floor coating but pleasured with how much came up then first time. It's not 100% brand new but it's a 2017 that's been used. So I wasnt expecting new.

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Are the lower bars running forward in the interior the same bars that go to your shock towers?
 
Your progress is looking good. I do want to mention the placement of the front bars that go to the shock towers. You are supposed to have opposing tubes in the same plane as each other. The way they are, the door bars are above the front shock tower bars and now there are opposing forces on the vertical bar, not good. When they are inline with each other, it transfers the load to the bar behind it and continues back to the B-pillar bar, spreading the load to the rest of the cage.
 
black954 said:
Your progress is looking good. I do want to mention the placement of the front bars that go to the shock towers. You are supposed to have opposing tubes in the same plane as each other. The way they are, the door bars are above the front shock tower bars and now there are opposing forces on the vertical bar, not good. When they are inline with each other, it transfers the load to the bar behind it and continues back to the B-pillar bar, spreading the load to the rest of the cage.
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I cam bring that up with him tonuse if he has plan for rectifying that or covering that. What would you have recommended?
 
All he would have to do is notch the floor board and raise that bar up to intersect in line with the door bar. Or he could add a bend to that bar so it angles up to meet the door bar.
I only brought this up because your cage now supports your front suspension since you cut out your inner fenders and now the coilovers are directly supported by the cage.
 
black954 said:
All he would have to do is notch the floor board and raise that bar up to intersect in line with the door bar. Or he could add a bend to that bar so it angles up to meet the door bar.
I only brought this up because your cage now supports your front suspension since you cut out your inner fenders and now the coilovers are directly supported by the cage.
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I know we are coming off the front of the shock towers and tieing them back into the frame rails as well. But I get what you're saying. I'll double check with him next time I cal him. Thank you for bringing that up. I'm not a chassis guy so I definitely dont pretend to be.
 
I’m not a pro either, but I’ve built 5-6 cages now, one of them being NHRA certified, and I constantly learn from the last one.
If your car was a typical street car, I wouldn’t bring it up. But, you’re car will be a proper fast car and therefore, steps need to be taken to maintain a higher level of quality and safety when you’re at that level.
 
black954 said:
I’m not a pro either, but I’ve built 5-6 cages now, one of them being NHRA certified, and I constantly learn from the last one.
If your car was a typical street car, I wouldn’t bring it up. But, you’re car will be a proper fast car and therefore, steps need to be taken to maintain a higher level of quality and safety when you’re at that level.
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He's got it covered.

Made quite a bit of progress.

Found a new aeromotive pro series Inline fuel pump setup locally today. So I should be picking that up anytime now. Rated for 1700hp with Efi/forced induction I shouldnt ever have a need for anything more than that.
 
Here are some minitub progress pics. Both were made and driver side is tacked in and passenger side is should be in and both welded up tomorrow.

Also a side by side of the measurements form the room we had to the new room we have. 28x10.5s wont be an issue any more.

And finally the last pieces of the fuel system. Aermotive pro series pump, aermotive fuel pump controller, dual inline filters and the aeromotive regulator.

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Driver side is welded in and the cancer where the seat belt mounted was fixed. The passenger side is tacked in. Also got the remainder of the fuel fittings shipped out, so when chassis is done the fuel system will be a breeze to setup and install.

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On a side note, my wife's birthday present showed up today. A car shes been wanting for a couple years finally came up for sale so i got it for her. She couldn't be happier. 2013 Inferno Orange 6 speed car, low mileage and 553whp.

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More cage work being done. Looking forward to it being done and home in a few weeks.

Also got my dome pressure sensor from holley.

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I was going over my list of things i havent touched or beefed up for the nee setup, and realised I was still running the original brake calipers up front. Everything else in the system is new. So I pulled the trigger on a set if the strange drag setups, but I opted for the billet red caliper upgrade. This should finish off the brake system the way it needs to be for the new setup.

Pretty excited about getting these on there.

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