89lx project

[zlou363lx]

in june of 2005 i bought my 89 lx hatchback. it had a 4cylinder in it with a 5spd behind it. i drove it like this until the battery died on it and then i started working on it.
it started out like this...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture001.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture003.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture002.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture179.jpg
that september i got my hands on a 351W block out of an old UPS truck and had it worked on and got some stuff for it...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture029.jpg
trickflow TW stage 3 heads.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P8200092.jpg
rear end out of a 93gt
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P8200095.jpg
my dad and i stripped the block down and took it along with the crank, heads and intake to the machine shop...

[zlou363lx]

in october we got everything back from the machine shop. the motor was bored 60 over after a mix up(explained below). heads and intake were port matched and the crank was balanced.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture028.jpg
edelbrock rpm air-gap
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P1200105.jpg
before that stuff got done i ordered some stuff from summit
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P1120093.jpg
swap pan..
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P1120096.jpg
i ordered pistons then too, but they didn't come. KB called around then and told me that they were not going to be making the pistons that i had ordered anytime soon. so they sent me a set of 60 over pistons for free and had the other order refunded.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P1200104.jpg

[zlou363lx]

then i got my MAC swap headers and my hpm drop solid motor mounts and we put everything together
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture031.jpg
then a couple weeks after that we dropped it in the car
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P3200034.jpg
we found a guy that knew how to make the wiring harnesses that i needed to get everything going and he helped us with a lot of the stuff after that.
then i got my cobra wheels and my dunlops on the car and my hood(i don't like it that much, but it was fairly cheap)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture048.jpg

we got it running on june 3rd/4th in the middle of the night. it was loud so i'm sure my neighbors hated us that night. it sprung an oil leak at the rear main seal so we shut it down and fixed that when we got the rear main seals the following monday. it ran great from then until early this year in march when i blew the t-5 that was in the car showing off for some friends. now i have a brand new tko500 in it.

this fall it is getting primered and a full front suspension done to it. so i will keep this updated as that goes on. thanks for looking

-zach:cool2:

[Johnson1134]

thats what i am going to be doing this winter!!:bigthumb

[zlou363lx]

which part of it? lol

[zlou363lx]

here's how it sits now...these were taken last summer, but i haven't really done anything to it...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture062.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture060.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/Picture066.jpg
and my favorite pic of him(i named him gus by the way lol)...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/gus%20project/P6230050.jpg

[Silver Bullet]

Nice Project... also in the one pic, looks like someone has a sweet ride next to it...

[zlou363lx]

thank you. and i'm guessing you mean the 4-eye? that's my mom's car. it has a sweet paint job. for performance it only has full exhaust and 351 heads on it. but it's not a bad cruising car. here is a shot of it...
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/Picture002.jpg

and here is a video of my car...
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/startthesho/?action=view&current=Picture069.flv

[Johnson1134]

which part of it? lolall of it!i am going to try to build a coupe??where you at in goshen i just moved to goshen?

[zlou363lx]

out towards blan. thompson rd

[Ryan218]

looking good...what size hood?

[zlou363lx]

thank you. it's a 2 and a half inch.