Man that looks great. Can't beat the look of a brand new power plant going in. Hey wanna do mine for me?

~Jim~

 

That plate is called the Happy Hooker from TPIS. Honestly I was a bit skeptical of picking up my engine with 4 1/4" bolts with less than 1/2" of thread engagement into aluminum also... But I know several people who also have used that plate and worked fine. I just made my own and thought I would share.

BTW, thanks for the compliments... I hope it will be running soon.

 

Frank, looks good bro. It will look even better with an intake and installed Let me know when your ready I'll be down to help.

 

Motor looks great, where did you get the valve covers? My motor is coming out at the end of March, going with an LE-2 Setup, did you paint the intake yourself?

 

I bought the valve covers here used. I dont know the brand but they look a lot like the Canton standard centerbolt.

The intake is a genuine LT4... powdercoat not paint.

I keep getting requests for info about the motor so here it is:

355 4 bolt main vette block. Eagle light weight forged crank, (internal balanced) Eagle 6" rods, JE domed nitrous pistons 12.4:1 with 63cc chamber. TFS heads done by TEA. 220cc, 2.08/1.60 flowed 317 @ .700. Custom Cam Motion SR 263/270 .686"/.674 on a 112 lsa. Custom Manton 3/8" pr's and Jessel rockers. Canton 242T pan, home ported LT4 intake... and alot of elbo grease to clean and polish stuff.

 

Yea they looked like Cantons to me, i need a set, doing my motor in a couple of weeks, Maybe i will run into you some time, i live in Jackson, and plan on hitting some f-body events this year!

 

Will you be running this beast in E-town on friday nights anytime soon? I cant wait to go back to the strip....screw this snow and ice crap.

 

Its a lovely 70 degrees here. Thought I'd rub it in a little.

 

thats what it was here last week... then the sudden March cold snap and 3 inches of snow dumped on us

When i do finally get her running and track ready I am sure I will make an appearance at E-town, but I run at Atco the most.

 

Very nice, Brian. I used the Happy Hooker:



But it looks like your solution worked as well or better. Nice looking engine bay...and shop! I'm envious!

 

Thanks, I built that garage when I bought this house. Its a 24x30 pole barn. I wired it with 2000 watts of lighting, studded it out on 24's, insulated it with r-19 and covered the walls with OSB. The celing is 2" poly foam just dropped in with the shiny side down.

Got outlets every 4 ft down the left side and every 8 on the right. electric heater like the one you have haning on the wall there. and tools I have accumulated. When I need something I just go buy it.

I'm not looking forward to loosing it when I move... I will need a bigger house soon and moving that garage will be a pain.

 

If you don't mind me asking, what did you do/ use to setup your alternator in that position. Thats what I'm looking to do in the future, and your really looks good.

~Jim~

 

We were just talking about that in another thread I made about making the bracket.

Its an alternator relocation kit from SJM manufacturing. Its OK, but not the best in the world. Its a bit too flimsy for me and it seems to flex a bit on a high HP motor. The alternator wants to tweek forward on acceleration and the belts can walk forward and fly off. I made another bracket on the back of the alt to help combat this but there are people who dont have any problems without it. Do a search for sjm and for the other thread I made.

 

Why does everybody have the rubber nose off?

 

The bumper is so long that a hoist will not reach over the engine with the cover on. You have to take it off to gain the extra room to reach in far enough