GrandSportC3

:lurk: :lurk:

I start:

Body:

4 wheel fender flares (1 inch wider than stock each side)
Tilt front
Headlights relocated to grille
Headlight covers molded into body
Hood molded into body
Rear spoiler/wing molded into body

Interior:

Autometer Phantom Gauges
80's style C3 seats
(Plastic racing seat for racing)
Heater control removed and replaced by custom panel for fan/linelock control
Blaupunkt CD Radio 180 Watts
76 Corvette T&T steering column with parts from 78 and 69 steering columns.
80's style leather steering wheel
Proform Adjustable shift light

Drivetrain + Cooling etc...

383/465+ HP AR Racing Engine
Tremec TKO Transmission
Shortened Driveshaft
Van Steel Offset Trailing Arms and bearing assembly
Auburn Posi Unit (GM unit cracked)
Hays Competition Clutch (with Borg&Beck style pressure plate)
Holley 80528 Drag Race Carb
1/2 inch wood spacer
Ported. Matched and Polished Edelbrock Tarantula (TM-1) Intake
Edelbrock chrome valve covers
Tuff Stuff Chrome High Flow Water Pump
100 Watts Chrome Alternator
Chrome alternator Brackets
Griffin Universal Radiator with 1 1/4 inch tubes (top model)
Coolflex stainless steel Radiator hoses
triple electric fans (16 inch Permacool fan as puller and dual Flex-a-Lite fans as pushers)
Billet Water Pump pulley
Proform 50000 Volt HEI Ignition
MSD 6AL Box
Accel 8.8 mm RACE wires
Battery relocated to engine compartment
Fuse Panel relocated to engine compartment
160 degree thermostat
Drop Base Air Filter setup with 2 1/4 inch K&N
Stainless steel overflow tank

Suspension:

Front:
460 lbs/inch VBP coils
Rear:
330 lbs/inch VBP composite spring

Brakes:

Stainless Steel Calipers
Stainless Steel E-brake kit
BIONDO Linelock

Exhaust:

Open Hooker Chrome Sidemount Headers and Sidepipes

Wheels/Tires:

Street: Centerline Auto Drags with 255/60R15 BFG Radial T/A's
Strip: Cragar skinny front rims and 165 R 15 Metric Radials front and AR TT2 rims with 275/60R15 BFG Drag Radials on the rear

Paint:

Viper Blue with white stripes

That's about it... I'm sure that I forgot a few things...



[Modified by GrandSportC3, 1:37 PM 7/30/2003]

Boofers

I put a real strong manget on the bottom of my oil filter so that any metal particles stay in the filter and don't go through my engine. Genius, I know..

Shark Racer

Engine:
GM Goodwrench 350 LM-1
True Dual 2.25" exhaust with dual Dynomax Super Turbos
Edelbrock Performer#3701 intake
Lars ignition
Hedman #68301-6 headers on the way!

Transmission:
BTO 700R4 w/ Corvette servo

Suspension:
VBP 550 lb front springs
"Clutchdust" 360 lb rear composite monospring
Bilstein Sport shocks at every corner
Van Steel smart struts

Interior:
Wet Okole seat covers
Wheelskins steeringwheel cover
Pioneer DEH-P8200R receiver
Blaupunkt Poly 4x6 indash speakers
JBL Amp
Infinity Kappa 6x9 3-way rear speakers

mrvette

See my site for the visuals....

but what's not apparent is.....

cruise controll....
driving lights behind custom grill, so are turn signals....
O ring calipers and DOT5 fluid, and truck master cylinder.
ATF cooler...dedicated, no engine radiator involved...
700r4 auto for the o/drive...
TT wheel, moved back off firewall,....done with rack install....
dimmer on steering wheel, not floor...
floor moved forward allmost 3 inches near firewall, pedals lowered...
driver's seat lowered....

about the only thing basically untouched in the frame....

GENE

1Bad69

air freshener...

Alwyn678

:lol: Got the trees on the mirror so the car don't smell

TedH

See signature. Other than the drivetrain mods listed, I've replaced misc other parts but they have been pretty close to OEM spec.

68shark

Geez! I think I just realized how "stock" my car is. Let's see...Comp Cams XE262, Pertronix kit including coil, Hurst shifter.....screw in studs, guideplates, hardened push rods....everything else is basically stock for the higher perf. 327. No headers, no aftermarket intake, no aftermarket carb....no wonder I only hit 229rwhp on the dyno last year!!

1Bad69's car.....perhaps has "just a few mods" besides the much needed air freshener.... :D

Twin_Turbo

body:
L88 hood
removed all dampening and heat shielding material
removed heater and ac core
removed entire heater box
cut large hole for ZF 6 speed
hammered out transmissio tunnel for ZF-6 speed
bonded fromt bumper, installing frame into nose, will bond hood to front clip to make it a clamshell hood
removed inner fenders
removed stock rad frame
removed a/x heater box in engine compartment
removed all but one of the holes for engine harness
removed stock booster, installed hydrobooster
installed C4 master cylinder
installed ZF-6 hydraulic clutch MC
removed antenna hole in rear
aluminium lower scoop with hookups for brake cooling and cooling to rad & intercoolers
still have to do 4 fender flares
Body completely stripped and rebuilt, all metal parts treated for rust (either powdercoating, zinc plating or POR)

frame:
welded completely through
working on installing 10pnt cage (will need to get it 1st
front piece of frame strengthened with gussets

suspension
all rebuilt, going to replace upper arms with adjustable ones
looking to replace stock spring/damper setup with coil overs
All poly bushings, no rubber anywhere (bot even on the batwing)
All parts powdercoated
All bolts either stainless, titanium or zinc plated

Brakes:
Wilwood Integra 6 front and Integra 4 brakes rear

Wheels:
Revolution modular, magnesium centers. 16x12 rear and 16x11 (with rim halves to convert to 10")

Exhaust:
Custom turbo log manifolds w/ waste gate connection
3" stainless downpipes with 3" cut outs
Stainless race mufflers
Custom waste gate pipes


Drivetrain & cooling:
350SBC Twin Turbo
custom aluminium airboxes (CNC milled)
Chevy Bowtie covers
All arp fasteners (inculding, flywheel, pressure plate, head studs, main studs, rod bolts, oil pan studs, bellhousin studs, valve cover studs, waterpump bolts, timing cover studs, ....)
Harland Sharp 1,6R full roller rockers
needle bearing cam button
bronze cam sprocket bushing (no chance of torrington bearing needles coming off and floating around in engine)
moon style custom crossram
4 dellorto DHLA 45 tri jet pressure carbs (lotus esprit turbo)
Callaway / Behr "The Speiss" Project intercoolers with carbon fiber tanks
Custom pop off valve
2 custom turbo log manifolds
2 rotomaster T04B S-4 .60 A/R O .84 A/R
2 rotomaster 2 port adjustable wastegates
Milodon gear drive (2 piece alu cover type)
C&R in line thermostat
Fluidyne monster rad
Fluidyne monster oil cooler
Fluidyne small oil cooler (power steering and hydrobooster)
KRC aluminium power steering pump with Sweet reservoir
Peterson 5 gal. dry sump tank w/ 2 heaters
Stock Car products 5 stage dry sump pump w/ Peterson pulley
Stefs stainless steel dry sump oil pan
Barnes dry sump adapter
SX 1000+HP Fuel pump + billet filter
2 Malpassi boost referenced pressure regulators
Accel Super Coil
Mallory Unilite distributor with custom advance/retard
MSD 6BTM
CV products 2000 series pulleys, gilmer and drive mandrel
Stock car products single stage oil scavenge pump (for the turbos)
Denzo alternator
Tilton XLT mini starter
4+3 flywheel
LT5 pressure plate, stock LT5 clutch plate
ZF-6 speed transmission
Rear end cooler
Rear end reservoir tank, will install rear end pump too.
All Aeroquip and XRP hoses.
Taylor Spiro Pro wred ingition wires
Moroso fuel pump block off plate
Moroso billet aluminium waterneck w/ AN connection
Electric fan setup

Maybe transmission oil cooler (undecided here because of need to drill and tap case, don't want to pull the trans apart that far, ZF = PITA to rebuild)

Still on the shellf:
Cola crank, carillo rods, je pistons, mech. roller cam, mech roller rockers - retrofit, vertical bar (crower), spare block, filled w/ rock block, callies splayed caps (still need to go on) with dry sump rear cap, another milodon gear drive.
Still need some decent heads.

and I probably forgot a ton of stuff and there's also lots of stuff that I'm still working on (mainly suspension and steering)


[Modified by Twin_Turbo, 2:17 PM 7/30/2003]


[Modified by Twin_Turbo, 5:29 AM 7/31/2003]

rexx78

Not much for me yet...

Poly bushings
2 1/2" true duals
modified Q-jet
Sony CD player
SS calipers
SS e-brakes
4 core radiator (bought it that way, found out yesterday)

and a whole bunch of DE-BUBBA-IZING. I think these are considered mods? :jester

GrandSportC3

Impressive list Twin Turbo :eek: :eek: :cool: :cool: :cheers: :cheers:

74-Roadster

Custom built grille. :cool:

More mods to come . . .

flynhi

I was feelin pretty cocky until I read GSC3s and TTs list. Now I have a severe inferiority complex.........

GrandSportC3

Well - it all had it's price.. I spent just about every paycheck (minus the bills that I had to pay) on the C3 for about 1.5 years... So far - I have 52k into the '68...

BSeery

Suspension:
Heavy duty idler arm
460 lb front springs (cut)
340 lb mono rear spring.
adjustable shocks.
complete poly bushing install front and rear.
adjustable rear strut rods.
17x8.5 wheels and tires front / 17x9.5 rears.

Drivetrain:
ZZ4 engine, edelbrock water pump, Holley ProJection 900CFM TBI.
700R4 transmission, 3.73 rear gears. A/C converted to 134a.

Exhaust: Hedman thermal coated full length headers with A.I.R. system. Dual exhaust with dual converters, no mufflers.

Interior:
Blaupunkt CD player, soon to have new carpet and thermal insulation

Exterior: stock body. Acrylic t-tops, removed spare tire carrier.

79VetteMike

BODY: curb feelers

WHEELS: custom valve stem caps

INTERIOR: spray freshener from the car wash

ENGINE: new air filter

:crazy:

BigBadRed

1991 ZR-1

Complete Custom Paint
Replaced stereo with all kenwood components including addition of 10" powered subwoofer.
Billet Specialties "Psycho" wheels (back when 17" rims were REAL expensive)
4:10 Rear End gears
Tinted Windows

1976

79 style front spoiler
Tinted Windows
Replaced stereo with all kenwood components including addition of 10" powered subwoofer.
Holly projection Fuel injection
Weiand 142 supercharger
10" wide rims (unknow manufacturer)
Complete custom interior
Seats from 82 GTA recovered in black and orange leather
Dash Completely custom fabricated with autometer phantom gauges
and 4th gen firebird hvac controls
Door skins recovered in black and orange leather
Hooker super comp headers into hooker sidepipes with (I forget the name but not hooker) baffles.
Rear end bubble lights

68 big block vert

Just got it so not mutch

All mallory ignition components installed yesterday.
Soon to be ordering radiator and electric fan combo
Debating on rebuilding trailing arms with experienced friends (with tools) or just seding them to van steel

--marc




[Modified by BigBadOrange, 12:06 AM 7/31/2003]

Disco_Mike

headers and dual exhaust. Still using the original StLouis mufflers.
realy cheesiy cassetteplayer c.1981.
repainted. thats it.

hiyosilver

New upholstery carpet dash new gauges new paint rebuilt eng reb m20 new clutch 370 gears came with 336 67 c2 chambered side exhaust 65 fuelie ram horns 2.5 69 side ex covers rear panel for side ex car and new carb by lars

SuprJames

Engine

Crate 383 Stroker motor (87 up 4 bolt block)
10.3:1 compression
Accel SuperRam EFI system
Accel 36 lb. Injectors
Accel computer w/ Calmap 7.0 software (all tuning done from laptop)
Accel Sequential injection distributor
Accel ignition box, coil, and wires
Accel Fuel Pump
1.5 rockers
hydraulic roller cam w/ .528/.528 lift and .218/.218 duration
Aluminum Edelbrock Performer RPM heads
K&N Filter
Dual Spal fans

Exhaust

1 3/4" full length Jet Coated Hooker Headers
True dual 2.5" exhuast with Dynomax mufflers (no cats)

Drivetrain

Beefed up 4L60 4 speed automatic w/ 2,600 stall converter
3.55 rear gear (New Rear End)
Transmission Cooler

Interior

One Alpine 10" sub, two Pioneer 6x9's, Sony 450 Watt 2 Channel amp
Pinoeer CD head unit (going to Pioneer MP3 Player with organic LED display soon)
All new interior (restored mostly to C.E. original)

Suspension

VBP Adjustable rear fiberglass monoleaf spring

Body

New Air Dam and front spoilers

Ran 13.07 in the 1/4 at 103.7 mph and a 60 ft. time of 1.75 sec. (WOW) with $200 a set 255 size street tires. I only raced it four times. Need slicks. Can't launch above 1,000 RPM's. The day before I wrecked it I took it to the dyno and picked up 20 HP and 80 ft. lb. of torque after some tuning on the laptop!! Didn't even get a chance to race it afterward. Last dynoed at 280 RWHP and 380 ft. lb. of torque.

That was before my wreck in April. Bodies off. Now in progress.......

New painted inside and out frame (off an 81')
VBP Upper A-Arms
VBP Adjustable front fiberglass monoleaf spring and lower A-arms
VBP Offset Trailing arms for wider tires and wheels
VBP Spreader bar
Stainless steel brake and fuel lines
Rack and Pinion steering from Steeroids
Redoing bent exhuast to x-pipe with electric cutouts
Cold air system (before was sucking hot engine air)
New exterior paint (original colors minus some stripes)
Line lock

Those are the things I've already either gotten or are ordered. Some of those modifications are on the car already, but weren't when the car was running.

Soon to come....
Fire Extinguisher
Aluminum Radiator
17" wheels with 315 or 285 size tires (not sure 315's will fit)
Nitrous

I hope to be in low 12's or even high 11's without nitrous one day. Before I wrecked it I was getting over 20 mpg on the highway. Car should be back on the road by November or December. :auto:

Edit: jsut added some stuff I'd forgotten about.


[Modified by SuprJames, 2:23 AM 7/31/2003]