Brad-ManQ45

I just saw that a post from another thread got here - strange....

Congratulations!

Warren whould be able to aid you....

But won't be quite as efficient....

Sweet! SB - you have accomplished more in the time that you've been working on it than I have, but then I'm so anal, I plan everything to the last detail, then come up with a better idea, and have to start over....

You might want to elaqborate on the build level of the 302 in order to match tranny's properly. ne of the early F-car T56's might be a better match than a later one, if you don't go T5...

It doesn't matter how much goop, pumice, acetone, brake cleaner I use, I still leave smudges on the white refrigerator My wife grumbles when I come in to get something to drink, and grumbles if I ask her to get me something to drink. ( substitute Bitc*hes for grumbles) I CAN'T WIN! To be fair, there WAS a period when building the rotisserie that there were a LOT of metal shavings tracked in, and black handprints, BUT THAT WAS TWO YEARS AGO. They NEVER forget...

Oh yeah....

Looking at that reminds me of why my wife no longer allows me to put her bra on for her....

Brother had one 'til he totalled it. Nice car. I remember an article about one with a Boss 302 engine in it. This was a nice car at the time - the engine was a bit doggy though...

can't use any extra code, MS2 is C whereas MSI is assembly...

Wish I could fit in one of those.....

I have pretty much had a manual transmission vehicle in the stable since starting to drive in 1970. After bbeing run over by a Lincoln Town Car running a red light on my motorcyle in '75 (leg and ankle) and having an idiot in a 2/4 ton truck towing a 25 foot boat rear-end me in a Starion in '86 (lower back & hip), I find I am simply not able to drive 45 minutes in stop and go traffic with the clutch on my '83 ZXT. Yes, it is fun to take out for a spin, but in the Atlanta area, everywhere you go is a traffic jam. I have had the ZXT since '91, and for 9 years it was basic transportation, but that was always against the flow of commuter traffic (sometimes 35 miles one way). When I moved further out and got a dose of driving it (15 miles each way, no interstate) everyday in our traffic like everyone else, I started driving the Q45 which I had bought as an "our car" for when we were both together on weekends and on trips (the ZXT and her Stanza both manuals and rather noisy on the interstates). When I get around to freshening the ZXT, I am seriously considering adapting a 200R4 or 4L60e to it and driving it more. The Flowfit seats are comfortable all day, more so than the Q's or the Lincoln Town Car seats. The Q is now my wfe's car and the Town Car is what I drive (got rid of the POS Stanza and bought her the Town Car, but she doesn't drive much, and between the miles and the cost of premium.....). I will say the that Lincoln sedats a far more comfortable than the Q45's though. The real reason autos are so popular is that they leave a hand free to apply makeup, hold cell phones and lattes and flip people off....

Stock tires on the turbos were 205/60/15...

So we have curious and curiouser....

Man, that doesn't, suck, it BLOWS. Sorry to hear about your misfortune. From what I've been able to gather, the WP blocks run at least $600 cheaper than the Dart. I'll be interested in hearing differences between the two...

Just make sure the body is fully in the garage and put a knife or wsrench in his hand and say he attacked you. Tell you were scared Sh*tless when he attacked you, which is why all the rounds in your gun were unloaded into his sorry *ss...

Grizzly gas a Porter 80 gal 2 stage on sale for $805, just got the flyer.

too small in every way.

Use dry ice and a needle-scaler attachment on your air chisel.

Or you could have a complete exhaust to the back for the wastegate only, w/small muffler. This is the best of both worlds, performance and sound-wise, to anyone that doesn't like loud....

That intercooler does look thick. But not like the two 944's that I'm gonna get welded together for my ZXT... I'm sure this one is more efficient than my setup will be - not as thick and looks to be larger across and probably height-wise also...

The 307 has the bore of a 283 and stroke of the 327. You can easily get the horsepower figure that you are shooting for with bolt ons. Go with a good dual plane intake and a 600cfm carb - or even a good quadrajet. I have always liked the idea of turboing a 302 Chevy engine, for gas mileage and rod/stroke ratio reasons. Definitely don't need all the low endf torque that a 350-400 small block produces, but a lot of top end! The 307 was the economy V8 that Chevy used when they wnet to the 350 small block for performance, it had good torque for its' size.

I wouldn't use rattle can primer - it is porus to rain. I'd go ahead and use Zero Rust, but then sand it all off (don't know how hard this would be). I understand your desire to get 'er done, but I honestly think you're better off waiting until you can get a compressor and paint gun and do the DPLF. Part of the delay can be alleviated by just doing the undercarriage first, which won't get rain, and use ZR on it. Not all your time will be wasted. As far as a paint gun, get a relatively inexpensive one for primer. HF has a pretty good one for ~$49. I predicate this last statement on the premise that after you get through with all body work, you will be putting on a coat or two of primer/surfacer and block sanding everything smooth, then a final coat of reduced DPLF as a sealer and then the final paint stages (bc/cc or single stage). I have oe of the HF guns and bought the 3 gun set from Northern tools on sale for $89. The 3 gun set has a detail gun and two different guns, one for primer and one for paint. These are all HVLP guns and my $400 compressor from HD handles them fine in my testing - at least at the rate that I will be spraying. I will not be using any of these for the top coats, just for primer when I get around to actullay not dismantling and welding. Running a restaurant leaves little free time.... I like going to the AutoBodyShop Forum and reading the posts on painting there, since the last time I painted was 30 years ago.

I have an '83 ZXT, on my V8 project car ('75) I'm going w/Ross' setup. I have lived with the ZXT's rear calipers since '92 and have no desire to multiply my problems.