Topic: My 78 TA "pro touring" project TWIN TURBO KIT UPDATE

[T/A Kid]

The tires look good thanks for the pics, Oh and the Chevy II 's in the background look pretty good too ! ok guys I'm sorry I've sinned and I repent

[Justin]

^^^^LOL. I saw it too and called my buddy over to the comp to see the tires and chevy.lol.  We can spread the love to other lil brother models.

[CT Bird Fan]

The tires look good thanks for the pics, Oh and the Chevy II 's in the background look pretty good too ! ok guys I'm sorry I've sinned and I repent

Well at least they are GM, LOL!!!!

[Fitz78TA]

The maroon Chevy II just got a LS1/4L60 swap done to it, nothing too major but extremely nice car.

The primer Black Chevy II on the other hand has a 408 iron block LS1 in it with twin turbo's making 950 rwhp through a 4L80 tranny. We are taking it to the LSX shootout next weekend in St. Louis, it was actually in HotRod magazine a while back. Originally a 4 door car, converted to 2 door, body isn't real straight, primer black with a lot of power PERFECT! lol, car has been put together for a few years now and he drives it everywhere. Motor has close to 40,000 on it too! The owner also has a 66 nova wagon with a duramax in it, the preview has been in HotRod and it will be a feature in an upcoming issue.

We really like our LS1's if you can't tell

[Fitz78TA]

1 completed DSE mini tub kit.... CHECK

Finished them up last night, turned out great. Well worth the money, they give a little over 14"s from inside of the tub to the fender well lip. DSE did a great job on the templates, once painted the tubs will look factory.

Since we are doing some sort of custom suspension in the back we didn't notch the frame rails for relocating the leaf springs, but will have to notch them to get the car as low as i want it to sit. As of now we have about 14 hours of work in them, I didn't think that was too bad.

Here is a couple quick cell pics.

[SoonerTA]

Only 14 hours.  It would have taken me a lot longer.  You are doing an A+ job!  Keep up the great work and thanks for the pictures.

[d123gt]

nice welds

[SoonerTA]

This build has me so excited!  I would love to do something like this one of these days.  I can't wait to see the end result. 

[Frode_skj]

Looks great with the DSE mini tubs, you can still use the back seat as well?

[Fitz78TA]

only 14 hours, BUT we did have a plasma cutter We did a Wolfe mini tub kit in my 98 formula drag car that I started and it took WAY longer and didn't turn out this nice.

The back seat will work, but you have to cut the back down a little bit. The video shows how to do it. I still have the back seat out of my 98 TA that is a couple inches narrower than the 78 that ought to fit right in, plus i will be able to build a frame where it will fold down allowing access to the trunk from the inside of the car, just as you can fold it down in the 4th gen fbody's.

Hope to start on the rear suspension this week.

[eroc022]

ive got alot of the same ideas! with the 4th gen seats, mini tubs, im going air ride eventually though...

[Fitz78TA]

Been a while since I updated this thread, but here are a few progress pics. Got the motor and tranny mocked up, had to cut pretty much all of the tranny tunnel out since we moved the motor so far back. Also included a couple pics of the torque arm fab. torque arm will run horizontally under the driveshaft with a double adjuster on the straight pipe, then the 2 angled pipes will get eyelets so the pinion angle can easily be adjusted.

[Justin]

sweet. That looks wicked.

[y88rick]

any new updates?

[Fitz78TA]

any new updates?

Just what I posted a couple posts up earlier today