i wonder if you could just have another cap built for it.
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It's up to the customer. He hasn't said anything about it. I'm sure we could have it machined, but that's up to the customer as he'd be the one paying for it.
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Oh one cool note about that car that some of you might appreciate: The Trunk compartment is being converted into a gun rack for his shotgun. It will be a hidden rack activated with hydraulics. He'll just push a button and the rack will fold out giving him access to the gun.
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What's the weight of that kind of setup
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wtf? not possible. your maths are shit.
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Not much. It's a 3 pc kit, a 9" polished Master that sits on the firewall and a small pump and acuumulator that can be mounted anywhere else in the car, as long as they're below the master.
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Anyway, im selling a '69 Firebird project car for a friend. Comes with a 350, auto trans. Original AC car, disc brakes. Interior on it is still soft and pliable. It's been in storage since '96. It is in fact a project car though, not a runner. Asking $8500. Will throw in a '01 Camaro parts car with a LS1/T56 for an additional $2k. If anyone is interested PM me.
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whats not possible? The compression? Or the HP im looking for?


And, as we tear into the motor more, there is lots more info now.

What we actually found was it was NOT the weld like we thought, but that headgasket failed, got water into cylinder #6 and hydrolocked on startup, this caused rod to go through the block, put a couple of dings in the cam etc. Stock crank is fine and of course all of my other stuff is reusable.. FAST intake manifold and TB, intake, injectors, etc etc etc

Heads are going to machine shop sunday to be tested and cleaned up, MAYBE bent a valve but not sure yet.

now leaning more towards a forged stock CI 6.0 motor, going to use my heads over, going bigger cam, lots of options, lots of compression options, trying to keep the build under 3000 now.. shit is expensive.
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Yeah you should hit more than 400.


Hell a stock 6.2 in a new truck is 420 I think.
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And cathedral or square heads?
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They are 243 heads, patriot stage 2, 59cc, cathedral heads. ported and polished, 650 lift springs, titanium retainers etc

I also have all of the supporting mods that I think should push me into that range... long tubes with ORY/no cats, 44lb injectors, FAST 92mm TB and intake manifold, volant CAI, chromoly pushrods, lightened monster flywheel, on 3.42s

almost certainly going to stick with forged stock cubes 6.0, and since my cam is nicked up, im gonna go bigger. I will pick up some horsepower from going up to the 6.0, as well as from the cam.

Leaning towards taking the easy way out, which it to buy my buddies completed forged block, that he just put together, but it has dished pistons and I will end up with right at 10.0 compression, which is lower than what I had, but leaves me some room in the future for boost, even with the 243 heads.

my guy that does all my tuning, welded my block, and doing this build for me also just put a dyno in his shop a few weeks ago, so this thing will definitely get its chance to see whats its making~ MUSTANG dyno but fuck it my body is ready~
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Installed Eddie Motorsports billet hood hinges this weekend. They are satin black powder coated to match the engine compartment. I purchased the trunk hinges about 6 weeks ago and liked them enough I bought the hood hinges. (needed hinges anyway due to the pins being worn)

Hard to tell in the pic because of the sea of black but they look awesome, great piece of engineering.

I have about $1100 in the trunk and hood hinges. :-) The things guys will do for their cars.

I still have some other hardware to change out in the engine compartment to match the stainless button head stuff everywhere.
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If you were closer I'd buy that ls1/t56 in a heartbeat
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They look awesome man. Kudos.

I saw these and fell in love, but I can't bring myself to spend so much on hood struts.


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Those look great.:-)
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