I am new to the site so i thought i would throw up my build i am working on. This seems to be a pretty cool forum with some pretty cool cars, so i thought i would join in the fun! feedback more than welcome.
Well i have recently picked up my first 2nd Gen TA and have started the process of my pretty much ground up build. This was a California car with ZERO rust in it. The people that owned it in Cali had already done a lot of work to the car by putting all new bushing and body mounts in it. Cleaned and painted the underside, rebuilt the motor and tranny. I bought the car with the motor and tranny pulled out of it and originally had bought the car to put together and drive, but that didn't happen.... The car is up at 417 Motorsports in Springfield Mo right now and we are working on the build.
The plans are custom front subframe with all C5 suspension and Fab 9" for the back with probably a 3 link setup (haven't started on the back yet)
The motor is out of my old 98 TA, which is a forged 370 iron block LSx with twin 61mm turbos. I picked up a RMVB TH400 w/ billet 3500 stall for another project, but think I will use it for this car now. In the end I plan on having a T56 in it, but I wanted to try the auto first to see what I think of it.
Here is a pic of it before i bought it when the motor was still in the car
here it is after the suspension and subframe was stripped out of it with some 18" mock up wheels
some progress of the front subframe work
and here is the motor setup that is going into this car.
Here is my old car that I bought new in Dec of 1997 that i had been building for 12 years and still hurts thinking about it. Long story short, i had wheel stud failure, lost the back wheel doing 70mph, slid out of control into a light pole directly in the drivers door which broke 2 vertebrae in my back and my pelvis (about 95% fully recovered now). These pictures were featured in April 2008 GM hightech magazine.
Man i miss that car
