1969 GTO Judge Clone LQ4 turbo 4L60e by 2165 Turbo Rail

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worked on it a little today.

got the IC pipe mocked up from the IC to the TB and figured out where the air temp sensor bung and the blow over valve need to go

****EDIT***
the exhaust changed.... you can see it on page 6 post number 106*****

I'm going to put a 4" electric cut out on the car and when its closed I'm going to have the exhaust run through the dual mufflers out the back of the car. So today we made the 4" to two 2.5" pipes by ovaling the 4" on one end. Then we took a few inches out of the middle of a 2.5" U bend. Then welded the two U bend pieces back together and marked where we needed to cut the "new" U bend so that we could weld it to the oval 4"

needs blown out but you get the point

I am using an F body manifold on the drivers side and all of the house side is going to be ceramic coated so I cleaned it up a little bit by cutting off the heat shield mount points. we also welded up the O@ hole and the heat riser hole

*all of the hot side is at the ceramic coaters right now. I decided to go with a Pewter coating.. 

I got my turbo blanket and plug wire heat guards

12/12/2010

couple more pics of the blanket on my turbo

couple of pics of the heater hoses (yea I know, I need to clean the inner fenders)

I used the tall solid motor mounts to make sure I had plenty of clearance between the oil pan and cross member. I probably could have gotten away with not cutting the floor but I didn't want to have an annoying tap tap tap on the floors 

all of the guys that I run around with use basically stock 4L60e with a corvette servo and have held up well. One of the guys has one that is bone stock with the servo and its fine so far. Then another guy has one with just the servo and a shift kit. 

I decided to save the cash right now and go ahead with just the servo and transgo shift kit. when it goes kaboom I will go ahead and get it built.

same with my rear end... right now its a stock 7.5 with 2.73 gears.. I found a 8.2 with 3.32 and posi for $300 so I bought it to get me going and when if blows I'll upgrade.. but I knew that the 7.5 with 2.73 was going to either blow or hurt the tranny because of the high gears

***EDIT*** the 8.2 broke the first weekend.. we took the car to the track and the broke in the parking lot on the way to the staging lanes SOOOO i ordered a built 9" don't have to worry about that anymore