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KendallF
03-03-2004, 10:09 PM
We dropped the motor in tonight. I have to do some finagling with the midplate tomorrow and then it's time to get the front clip hung and start on piping. :D

http://www.secondhandsix.com/images/motor_in_car_005.jpg
http://www.secondhandsix.com/images/motor_in_car_007.jpg
http://www.secondhandsix.com/images/motor_in_car_010.jpg
Doober
03-03-2004, 10:33 PM
Very nice looking setup. Where did you learn all you know about fabrication and what have you? self taught and other people or some type of schooling. I would really like to go to a school after high school dealing with high peformance applications.
JayC
03-04-2004, 12:20 AM
Aint seen a set of those headers in a long time. Brace them very well and get ready to weld up all the cracks.
Reaper
03-04-2004, 01:13 AM
that sure is some purdy junk.......




good luck with that... cant wait to read about the 1st pass!
Taffy
03-04-2004, 06:24 AM
I could put my pee pee in those throttle bodies!!! JK. Nice stuff Kendall. Always ready to read your posts!!!!!

Get it running!!!
KendallF
03-04-2004, 08:03 AM
Very nice looking setup. Where did you learn all you know about fabrication and what have you? self taught and other people or some type of schooling. I would really like to go to a school after high school dealing with high peformance applications.

I'm an electronics engineer; I learned the car stuff mostly by trying to do something and screwing it up until it finally worked. :) I've been a car guy for a long time but I didn't know squat until extreme poverty forced me to start working on my own stuff in college. :marchmell

I bought pieces of crap and drove them until they expired, and worked on whatever broke. I also started 2 or 3 project cars that were beyond my skill level at the time which never got finished..sound familiar to anyone else? :arco:

I have learned a huge amount at the local junior college by taking classes in welding and machine work. Nearly every term I take a night class a couple of nights a week; I have done large projects like the intake for my motor there. I still have loads of things I want to learn and improve on; I have a couple of friends who do fabrication work for a living and give me something to shoot for.

Aint seen a set of those headers in a long time. Brace them very well and get ready to weld up all the cracks. I'm going to make steel braces that bolt to the front of the heads, I think. These are Pete B's old headers, as you probably remember, and he'd had a crack or two welded previously.
NJTURBO
03-04-2004, 09:45 AM
Hey Kendall are those the Valve Covers I gave you. :arco:
DCEPTCN
03-04-2004, 09:52 AM
Man, that's beautiful. Maybe I should get divorced so that I can afford something like that?......yep, that's what I'm gonna do!

But really, man.....those pictures make me misty.
KendallF
03-04-2004, 11:23 AM
Hey Kendall are those the Valve Covers I gave you. :arco:

Travis, no, these were another ratty pair I had laying around. They had a nice valve spring oiler setup so I used them. The ones you sent are well traveled; they are currently in Michigan being used for mockup on an Indy car. :)
TurboJim
03-04-2004, 05:37 PM
Wow Kendall, that looks beautiful! Hope it runs as well as it looks!!

Jim
NJTURBO
03-04-2004, 06:47 PM
Travis, no, these were another ratty pair I had laying around. They had a nice valve spring oiler setup so I used them. The ones you sent are well traveled; they are currently in Michigan being used for mockup on an Indy car. :)


Cool Deal. As always it looks AWESOME i cannot wait to see that baby running. You are a inspiration for us. :arco: