Project Cocaine

[George C]

Now with getting the diff cover back from the powdercoaters I was able to go ahead and put the rear back together for good. Rear has a tru-trac and now 342 gears, would like a steeper gear but only have choices of 342 or 373 and i needed around a 360 gear. the 373 would be too much for the mph goals

[Dan B.]

I'm not gear limited. I'm track limited. It's not long enough for my mph goals. ;)

[George C]

I'm not gear limited. I'm track limited. It's not long enough for my mph goals. ;)

Do a LS swap and youll have enough power then to meet your goals

[George C]

With having such a small Rad i was limited to fans that would fit....found out i could use the AC fan from a GTO dual fan setup

On high this fan moves some serious air




Got around to making my fuel regulator mount

Now time to drop it off at powdercoaters

[George C]

worked on my coolant crossover




spent around 5 hours today opening up my intake to match my heads, with my heads having such a huge port i had to open up the intake a 1/4"..another thing about this intake is the ports werent even true

pic of intake and heads

pic of work in progress

pic of one side just about finished

stock port

opened up port

[George C]

My oil cooler parts have showed up, this setup should easily keep oil temps inline along with help keep motor cooler over all

[Dan B.]

What's your take on an oil cooler for n/a street motors? My 387w is 11:1 CR, all iron block and heads and in a tight ranger engine bay. Water temps do well (165) when moving but creep to 200 in traffic and occasionally higher when it's humid. To be honest, I've never idled it for extended periods in high heat/high humidity traffic to see how high it would go.

[George C]

Would help keep overall motor temps down

[George C]

well from my 6spd days to now my auto days, the console mod FTW

[Silverhatch]

Everything looks really clean. Nice work. More patience than me.

[George C]

i picked up GM factory black coated brake lines hoping i could make them work with all the changes Ive made to the truck. My biggest fear was placement of master cylinder along with the driverside downpipe. As you can see the factory lines worked out very well for the wilwood master and clears the downpipe just fine

[George C]

Went ahead and picked up a leash fuse/relay board to help wire this project

[AdamantiumSilvr]

It was nice chatting with you guys tonight! I don't get on here as much as I should and definitely don't know how I missed this thread but daaang yunz always do top notch looking work!!

[TooFast98Cobra]

Bump any updates ? Great build.

[George C]

in process of doing the brake lines for the rear and had to order the dual caliper lines

waiting on few small parts to get back from powdercoaters so can mount the fuel regulator and the rad hoses

gonna try tackle wiring this week

[Dan B.]

Are you starting from scratch with ALL the wiring or just the driveline wiring?

[George C]

Are you starting from scratch with ALL the wiring or just the driveline wiring?

redoing all the wiring since ive deleted alot of items and i dont need the extra weight

[Dan B.]

I like the sound of that. Please post pics.

[George C]

Without having the ebrake mechanism anymore it left me a open area with 3 studs, I went ahead and made good use of this by making a plate to mount the leash fuse/relay panel to...this location also gives me good access incase i need to change a fuse




with the whole theme of wires tucked and easier to work on, I chose to mount the pcm, injector driver and the 58x box inside the console


the pcm wires will exit slightly in front of the pcm and into the engine by from behind the motor for a nice clean appearance

[George C]

made a set of rad hoses for the truck from 1.5 and 1.75 aluminum tubing then had them powdercoated black, was also able to score a GM 18psi rad cap






I chose to go ahead and coat the base of the fuel regulator black and also had the bracket i had made coated as well



and with rewiring the entire truck i chose to pick up 125' of Teraflex 1/8-1/4-1/2-3/4 and 1" this should cover me for all the exposed wiring