Amazing car Jerry, great build! Sounds awesome too. I agree it could be a magazine car.

 

Thanks.

Drove it both Saturday and Sunday to the Autofair at the speedway. It ran great, the water temps and oil pressure were fine and no leaks. Very pleased so far. It seems to be fairly strong. This morning, as I entered the interstate, I got on it but not full throttle. I was running 83MPH by the GPS as I was merging onto the highway. I could easily have hit 100 or better.





There was lots of interest in the engine. I happened to have parked my car in the grass along the pit lane so it was easy to see the car. There were lots of questions about the install and some of the other things I have done to the car. It is amazing how many guys and gals had big bumper cars at some point in their lives. We forget that there were lots of these cars sold in the 70's.

One fellow came through with two of his sons. He has a '76 he bought new. In 1989, he had a motor issue and parked the car. Raising his family became the priority. However, the car has been garaged and covered and is still in good shape. His sons have been urging him to get it running. They asked tons of questions about the motor installation. When the subject got around to money, I told them they could save some money by going with a 5.3 truck motor. The father's and son's eyes widened. Seems they have a wrecked 2007 truck with a 5.3!! He said my car had inspired him to get to work on his car. He lives about 10 miles from me so I may get to see the results someday.

Our local Camaro club did trophies this morning and I won best engine!! I was very pleased and somewhat surprised as there was a 1969 Camaro with a very nice engine bay. He won best of show for our club so the whole car is very nice. I was very pleased to win after all the time spent the past four months. It was a good day!!



Here's the other guy's engine and and a sweet engine I saw in a truck with an Inglese induction system.





My wife, the keeper of the hood, was with me today. Here she is on the banking!!



Lots of interesting cars there. Even though it is a Ford, the front end caught my attention.



We had fun!!

 

Congratulations Jerry! You earned the award; your engine bay is the nicest LS swap I've ever seen!

 

First time out hell ya, congrats! Told your care was top quality. I like the pic in the grass too, it gives me a better idea of those 17x11s and the 295 you have on there.

I have a set of black outs for the headlights. I got them off nasty for a song. I'll send them to you for shipping if your interested. I will even go over them with Plastex. I can't use them.

 

Thanks. After all that work, it did feel good to get the award. And my wife was there to share it. She had to put up with me being in the garage full time for most of the summer. She said her bedroom seems so much bigger now!!

Sounds good to me on the black outs. I will PM you my address and you can let me know about the shipping cost.

 

Should just be the cost of a prepaid box. I got them hoping they would fit later models but no luck.

 

Jerry – Congratulations on your win at the show! It sounds like it was a good trip. We hope you get to drive your car and enjoy it for the rest of the summer.

 

I have a 70 camaro with the same mounts the question I have is my motor is 3" from the firewall is that what yours is ? if you can I would like to talk to you about your install please call me @ 714-530-6107 Terry

 

I think Kooks installed their own mounts when he took it there, that would make his the only one with those mounts currently. His car was Ginnea Pig.

 

According to the pics. on the blog he used dingo mounts the headers were kooks