71 turbo 4.8 t56

[Snowman]

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hey y'all. I was just cruising around a while back on the net and stumbled across this sweet forum, so I thought I'd throw my ride in for y'all to see. It's a 2 year build, came to me in very rough shape as most do. My aim with the car was a pro touring attitude with muscle car vibe, no big wheels I guess. Started with the back half all 2x3 box, track 9" housing, triangulated 4 link, 3 piece sway bar, qa1 coilovers strange pumpkin with 4:11 and a Detroit. Up front went with a body spindles, early 2000 s10 ball joints all hand fabbed into my stock control arms. Wildwood calipers with hand made mounts. Same coilovers and a 1.25 three piece bar up front. And a Appleton power rack for steering. The motor combo is a 02 4.8 gen 3. Set back 6" comp cam .620 .626 lift cam and supporting valve train. Eldebrock proflo xt intake and pico 80 lb injectors. I then plumbed in a Borg Warner s475 76 mm turbo hand building all the support equipment for that. Runnin a stock 02 ECM tuned by PCM for less on a speed density 3 bar tune. It is currently set up on 15 lbs of boost on e85. It's all caged, did a stacked door bar for ease of entry. Hand built the dash . I'll try to get more pix up but I'm a novice to all this stuff so I'm still figuring it out.

[avewhtboy]

Very cool, definitely would like more pictures of the whole thing!

Welcome to the forum more pics please!

[Kenova]

Do I see tandem master cylinders in there?

Ken

[Snowman]

Yes all wilwood, pedals and all. Used this set up many times in my roundy round days for the balance bar set up for proportion adjustments.

[avewhtboy]

Any shots of the front and rear suspension?

What transmission are you using?

[Snowman]

its a 02 t56 with all the updates, a McLeod twin disk and hays flywheel for the clutch

[waybad]

love it could you post up how you did you gas tank fill? I want to do this, it reminds me of my 67rs/ss I had back in HS

[Snowman]

Very cool thanks I thought it was a cool touch. I cut the neck off my stock tank to use the cap piece, built a bucket for the Camero fill cap outa 3" exhaust tube, tig'd it in the rear panel and did the finish work to make it look nice. The tank it self I hand built from 18 gauge sheetmetal which made it real easy to do the filler neck up threw the pan in the rear to the tail light panel. Really just a lot of time. You will loose your trunk latch key hole so I needed up using a set of keyed locks on the corners of the deck lid to fasten the hatch down. I'll try to dig up some pix of the work.

[avewhtboy]

So what size wheels and tires are you using?

And any specs on the rack, I have a coleman that is similar to the one you have.

I see you have spacers on the inner rack links, I thought I had seen that is not "recommended"?

Car looks bad ass love it!

[bbcowboy]

Wow, nice work.. your project is coming along great...got to love the fabrication work.

[Snowman]

Thanks. The rack is a old Appleton unit with power assist, they still manufacture racks. If ya google um you can check out there stuff. As far as the spacers go there's no problem that I've ever had doing this, we've done it for years on our racecars it's another way to line up the lower control arm and steering link to help eliminate bump. These short racks work very well on the h body because they line up almost perfect with the lower control arm pivot point creating the same length steering arm as the lower control arm. And the new version racks actually have an adjustable inner slot which really is the same as what we've been doin for ever. These wheels and tires are 7" in the front and 8" in the rear, there a set I picked up off that www Junk sale site for next to nothing. And I narrowed up my rear end to use this back space. When I built the rear frame section I left enough room for a 10" wheel so I can put a little rubber on it and run it at the track.

[waybad]

can't wait for more picts,, AND VIDEOS!!

[vegastre]

hey y'all. I was just cruising around a while back on the net and stumbled across this sweet forum

Very nice Hot Rod,
Still amazes me how many Vega Hot Rods are out there and they seem to just appear out of the mist. The Vega even today is a pretty good platform for a individual stamp and definition of Hot Rodding. I think your car has a lot of character which is not that easy to come by now days. What gave you the idea to do a Vega? BTW, good choice on the paint color =)

[1100kaw2]

Very Nice build Snowman.
All the fab work appears well thought out and executed very well.
The set back must really take away foot room? especially with 3 pedals to deal with.
I was excited to see the word "Turbo" cause I wanted to see where you found the room. Then I see "set back" . lol.
I haven't even driven mine yet and im contemplating turbo. but I don't have "set back".
When you get time, stick as many pics as you can on here. I'm sure we all want to see.
Thanks.

oh, and I dig the shaved tail lite lens'
Darrell

[Snowman]

Thanks guys for the positive feedback, I've got like most of you I'm sure what seems to be millions of hours going back and forth over positioning and what works and what doesn't and also the look cool factor. I'll see if I can come up with some more pix I have a small vid on my phone I was tryin to upload but have to figure out how to make it smaller for y'all to hear this thing. Let me tell ya it's rediculous. The fifth gear pull, feels like it's gonna rip the fillings outa my teeth! I haven't done a 4th pull on the freeway, hard yet. I did it mildly about a week ago and gettin on a freeway in forth about 1/2 throttle it stepped out on me at about 50 or so . On the leg room, I'm 6'1 and can fit very good in this car and can drive it with my steeltoes on so it's actually decent. I did have to bring the throttle pedal back a bit but Im gettin used to it. Most of the room come from settin the seats as far back as I could. With no back seats to worry about it worked great.