Ok, little update. The Teksid project is still underway, however, its going to slow down. I was hoping to have the car up and running by this coming spring, but I would have to spread myself pretty thin moneywise, and with having a house, wife, bills, etc. I don't want to consume all of my extra money on this build and be screwed if something happens. So with that being said, I yanked my stock short block out of the corner of the garage and cleaned everything up. I plasti gauged the rod and main bearing clearances just to make sure everything was good, and with only around 40K on it, everything was well within spec. I installed my new Trick Flow heads and CMS stage 3 cams, and threw it in the car. She fired right up and runs great. So I will drive it and drag it the way that it sits now, while continuing to collect parts for the big bore Teksid and possibly carbed build. I picked up some 17 inch race stars the other day with tires so that I can run my Bullitt front brakes all of the time now. Before I would switch back and forth between the Bullitt and stock GT brakes because I didn't want to run a huge spacer with the Bullitt brakes and 15 inch Pro Stars. So now that the car is running, I will get it retuned because of a few changes that Ive made, i.e. larger cams, EGR delete, MAF moved to the fenderwell, and PPRV delete. My main focus is getting the rear suspension dialed in for this coming year. Ive recently purchased the following:
Team Z stock location rear drag springs
Team Z Street Beast lower control arms
Strange 10 way rear shocks
Baseline anti roll bar
CHE Performance Track Attack axle brace
Baseline relocated upper control arm kit (already had)
The axle brace has brackets built in to it that has multiple mounting points for the rear lower control arms. With my car being lowered, the lower control arms are at a goofy angle, so this will let me set my instant center correctly, and coupled with my Baseline relocated upper control arm kit, I will be able to dial in my instant center and pinion angle pretty easily, and still let me have the car lowered. I just replaced my axle bearings and seals yesterday since the car is apart for safe measure. And last but not least, I will be buying a new set of Mickey Thompson ET Drag stiff wall slicks. My best 60ft and ET. was actually ran with this stock shortblock and Trick Flow heads with smaller cams and less gear, and more of a street suspension setup about 4 years ago. So we will see what happens. Ill take some pics as soon as I can...