Plans:
Step 1 Complete the engine swap.
Step 2 Suspension/body mods. (Lowering, air dam, remove mirrors, skinny wheels, full moon caps, weight reduction)
Step 3 Safety equipment. (Roll cage, fire supression system,
At this point, I've had a local shop make my driveshaft, I have the adapter on, and I've fabricated some motor mounts and installed the engine. The engine sits a little high, so I'm either going to have to cut up the hood or cut up the subframe and lower the engine. I'm leaning towards the latter option, but it means redoing a lot of work I've already completed.
Another daunting task for me is building a header from scratch. I have limited tools for doing this (I do have a welder and a cutting tools, but no tubing bender). I've got a simple header designed that I can build, I just need to find the time to work on it. And that has been difficult ever since my son was born.
So, that's where I'm at now. As motivation, I recently played with photoshop a bit and made the attached image.
Oh, I plan on keeping this street legal and I hope to have it driveable for under $4000, and race-ready for less than $8000, which would likely put it at the cheapest record to be set at Bonneville in a long time.
