66 coronet street/strip/dragweek twin turbo project

[LPRacing]

A little background on this car. This car was actually my rival way back in high school. Everyone always wanted us to line up because he had a 440 and I had a 72 camaro with a pretty mean sb with nitrous. Ironically we never raced each other, he sold the car and now I am building it. Plus the guy now works for me. Car was an original 440 500 car with a/c and it somehow turned into what you see here.

The build specs:
540 cu in keith black aluminum block
billet crank
mgp aluminum rods
diamond pistons
indy 572-13 heads
billet comp cam
isky ez roll lifters
smith bros pushrods
t&d shaft rockers
aviad dry sump setup
indy intake
csu blow through 1000 cfm dominator
twin precision gt47 88 turbos
turbosmart wastegates and bov's
custom built intercooler
rossler xhd 210 transmission
protorque converter
carbon fiber pst driveshaft
custom 9 inch rear end with mark williams 40 spline setup. 3.70 gear

and a lot of time fabricating


here are some pictures, this is where the project was taken over from the original owner and turned into the twin turbo nightmare

the start of the new cage chassis, put a lot of effort into hiding the cage within the body lines of the car, obviously nothing will hide a funny car cage though

the dash is split in two, the top half is now permanent and the bottom half comes out on dzus fasteners to access where all the electrical and computers will be

more to come

 

[MikeStahl]

Sure liken this one!!!!!!!! keep the good work

 

[LPRacing]

decided to double frame rail the car and integrate it into a console. All of the controls for the car (parachute release, e brake, fire handle, shifter, cables, etc) are installed in here and keeps from routing the cables throughout the interior and back window, trunk area. The top is removable to access transmission, driveshaft tunnel etc.

and pretty much decided on this color for the car

 

[roadrunnerman]

Kinda a neat twist of fate that you now own the car you never raced against in high school.

 

[Jeremiah]

Very nice car! Keep us updated on the progress.

 

[Superfreak]

Yes! This is my style of car, looking good.

 

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

This one is gonna be a Bad Motor Scooter! Subscribed

 

[Superfreak]

Do you any close up pics showing how the steering column is mounted?

 

[daredevil]

I have wood.

 

[LPRacing]

Do you any close up pics showing how the steering column is mounted?

right now the column is temporarily mounted through the roll cage, it slips into a piece of tubing through the firewall upright

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some pics of the engine/ engine compartment/ turbo system

 

[68sportsatelliteragtop]

Nice tin work, gonna be a cool piece!

 

[snakeoil24]

This car looks great amazing workmanship.

 

[goose69]

All I can say is "HOLY CRAP"!!!

 

[roadrunnerman]

Motor looks like they should have used that one in Back To The Future.

 

[LPRacing]

Motor looks like they should have used that one in Back To The Future.

twin flux capacitors made it over travel they had to use one with just one flux capacitor. :icon_eyes:

 

[Ron 73]

ill second the "Bad Motor Scooter" for sure!

 

[theman440]

Do you mind me asking why you went with a GM trans? Looks like a 400 or 700?

 

[LPRacing]

Do you mind me asking why you went with a GM trans? Looks like a 400 or 700?

Turbo 400 by rossler. Main reasons. Strength (this motor is capable of 2800 hp) price. Safety. Gear ratios available. Converter selection. And it has been proven on other cars of mine that make 3-4000 hp.

Oh yea also a "clean neutral"

 

[LPRacing]

Well its been a while since I posted any updates......so here is the motor

will post some more pictures of the car in a bit

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The rear of the car has had extensive modifications done. The decklid was smoothed out, no mouldings, and removed the reverse lights from the decklid. The quarter extensions were smoothed out and the center lense will now be replaced with a reverse/clear lense. The surrounding light will be the running and brake/turn lights. The rear bumper has been cut, channeled, sectioned, pinched, added on to and anything else you can imagine, along with modifying the body to compliment the lines. The underside of the bumper is smooth and works into the "aero" tin work under the car. I then fabricated a aluminum wing for the car that stays with the decklid.

 

[LPRacing]

The process was slowed down by moving....here she is in her new work space

Here you can see the bumper finished up with the body line details added in

trunk bump stops

removal of the drip rail....the car is going to have flush mounted glass like a newer vehicle and we will be getting rid of the wing windows and going to a one piece door glass

The gaps on this car were not up to standards so I went around and modified every gap on the car until it came out to .100 of an inch. The quarter panels had to be moved around on average .200 of an inch and up to .400 of an inch. You can see how bad both door gaps were and even the bottoms of the doors were added on about .160 of an inch to make them exact. The upper door/cowl has been extensively modified due to going to a one piece window you would see the voids left for the wing window.

Now onto the wheel tubs and rear tin work. The tubs are hand made from .090 aluminum and made to look like they are one piece