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NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:27 AM

Well, remember that red coupe with a white hood and a white fender with bogarts on it sitting collecting dust in the corner at my shop/house/oldshop? Well it is not collecting dust anymore! It is currently out getting a 25.5c cage put in it, along with the old KBrown subrames taken out and new through the floor units installed with the cage. Cage is a full chrome moly unit. Old mild steel cage was cut out by Predator. Also getting the trunk floor repaired, new chute mount, and the inner fender finally welded in.
Isn't that a race car tucked in the last bay? lol. And a pic of the r/s car with the bubbling/cracking hood.
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464ac5d810730e6.jpg

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:27 AM

Engine is already 97% finished. Just needs the fogger lines finished up and the intake bolted down afterwards.
SPECS:
R block 8.2" deck block .040 over
CP domed pistons, custom designed dome
Carrillo rods, with rod bolt upgrade, these are billet units 5.3" long
Sonny Bryant billet steel crankshaft 3.44" stroke
Assembly balanced with heavy metal and crank is knife edged and radiused.
block has been align honed, square decked, bored and torque plate honed by me.
Canton oil pan and pick up with melling oil pump
ARP driveshaft for oil pump
Custom grind cam from Lunati by me, .550 lift lots of duration
Ported Vic Jr's by me, titanium intake and stainless exhaust valves, 10 degree retainers and locks, double springs.
Probe shaft mount rocker arms, 1.6 ratio
TFS pushrods
FRPP lifters and spyder assembly
ARP 1/2" studs for heads
Racemaster balancer
JW the wheel flywheel
Vic Jr. carb intake converted to EFI by TEA
Probe elbow
75mm race throttle body
30 lb injectors, but soon to be 36's or 42's I am thinking
Motorsport valve covers, tall ones
Ceramic coated Kooks custom 1 7/8" headers
Racemaster thrust bearing retainer plate and billet steel timing chain assembly
Going to put on an electric water pump
billet aluminum alternator bracket kit from DP
MSD billet distributor

Here are some pics of the engine as it sits now. I am going to post some assembly pics up too in a new post.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:31 AM

Transmission is a C4 Mighty Might 2 from Dynamic Transmissions. Torque converter is a TTC unit from the same place. The trans is really heavy duty with lots of billet and custom parts inside it and a pro tree brake. It also has a deep aluminum pan and a JW SFI bellhousing. I have a winter's shifter and cable, and going to use the Dynamic billet button assembly for the trans brake.
I am having a custom made driveshaft built for it to handle the power this beast is going to make.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:35 AM

The rear end is an 8.8, but I am toying with putting a 9" set up in it so this car can be used for 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile with a simple center section change. It has 33 spline axles, spool, cclip elims all from Moser. Has 4 lug but with 5/8" studs so they won't break. Has Aerospace rear race brakes on it and a polished MAC rear end girdle/cover. The rear bogarts are 15 X 10 with 28 X 10.5 slicks. It worked well when I used to run in renegade back in the late 90's and early 00's. Car has so far run a best of a 9.7 with only a 1.54 60 foot time all with a tremec 5 speed. My goal for the car is in the 8's with a 1.1X 60 foot.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:37 AM

Paint is going to be done by none other than Plated. I am letting him loose on it just like I did with the real street car. He has promised me that it will outdo that car, so I am really excited to see what he does with it. Base color is still going to be the 60's coral orange.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 06:42 AM

front suspension is from UPR, with adjustable strange front struts and rear shocks. The brakes on the front are from an old out of business company called Ground Pounder. It is a combo of several different manufacturers that gives me a 12" front brake set up for a street car. Very sweet setup. I'll get pics up of it sometime soon. Probably when it comes back from the chassis guy.
Rear suspension is also from UPR, their prokit, with an anti roll bar from them as well. All the rear torque boxes have been welded up and are reinforced with battle boxes and my own upper reinforcements.
The car has manual steering care of flaming river and manual brakes too. It has roll up windows, no a/c, no rear defog, no power locks, etc. It is a sweet car that really deserves to be finished up and I am in a position now to do it. So here goes!!!! Follow along and input is always welcome.

93hulk

09-02-2009, 07:18 AM

Sounds sweet Mike.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 07:28 AM

plated

09-02-2009, 07:29 AM

well it's about damn time!! a new toy to tinker with when you get home:bigthumb looking foward to laying some paint on it buddy..stay safe

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 07:33 AM

DOOD! You are the man, where else would I take it too? You are getting my new coupe probably on Friday. Woman will give you a call then bring it to you for buff and such.
You'll probably get this car after the cage is in it, because I want it all painted, inside and out, you'll get to go crazy man!

cstreu1026

09-02-2009, 09:11 AM

Thanks man! Can't wait to get some pics up. This stuff has been sittin around since 03, my last season that I raced renegade. going to be sweet to finally hear it and get to drive it. I know the test track will see this thing in January!

I will be glad when it moves under its own power. It sure gets old pushing the damn thing around the shop. :lol:

I'm really anxious to see what plated comes up with for this one.

ibstrokin

09-02-2009, 11:10 AM

:postpix:

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 12:04 PM

cstreu1026

09-02-2009, 12:45 PM

I know I know, Matt said he can post some pics up for me as he gets time. I hope there are some up today for the vert thread and for this one. I am excited my projects are coming together. It makes my stay over here worthwhile and a little more tolerable looking forward to seeing what's been done each week.

Ben is going to re-tune my car next week. While I'm over there I will try to snap some pictures of all the progress through out the place.

NXcoupe

09-02-2009, 01:21 PM

Ok, cool, I appreciate it! I know he gets pretty busy there and sometimes pics are just one too many things to do.

89notch

09-02-2009, 01:24 PM

I have to go up friday to drop that computer off and pick up my MIL eliminator plug. I will try to remember to bring my camera as well.

NXcoupe

09-04-2009, 04:28 PM

Ok, Matt is in Col with NMRA and Donna just left to go to her 'other' job, so hope you don't go up without calling.
Good news, the hole in the trunk floor is fixed, the hole in the trans tunnel is fixed, and the inner fender is welded in and fixed. the rest of the old roll bar is removed and now it is time to start cutting out the old subframes and the new ones put in.

firestang70

09-05-2009, 07:33 PM

Still waiting on pics Mike!!! Sounds like a sick ride.

NXcoupe

09-06-2009, 03:34 AM

Thanks man! Love your sig. I am just waiting on the guys to get them posted up. The car is in Cincy now, and the guy is taking pics of it as he is working on putting the cage in and detailing the little things. He's already patched the hole in the trunk, the trans tunnel, and the inner fender. I am going to get Matt to snap some shots of the engine, the trans and other assorted parts that are waiting to go into it.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 01:45 PM

Ok, so the car is out at the chassis shop and those that remember it, it had a bunch of stupid problems with it that just needed repaired and redone.
One of the first things was to repair the inner fender apron. I drilled out the spotwelds on the old one and the new one, and had it sitting in it to fix, but just didn't get around to it. So that's the first thing that got done to it.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 01:50 PM

Ok, so I put the fuel cell in the car in a hurry and it made the trunk floor look like hell, so I had him redo that and cut it out nice and put a piece of sheet metal back in it so we can cut it out nicely and mount a new fuel cell in it.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 01:55 PM

So he also ripped out the old Kenny Brown subframe connectors and made up a set of through the floor units to really strengthen the chassis for the power and so the new cage could tie into them.
He retained the x bracing and jacking rails I had put on it years ago and tied them into the new subframe connectors. He also retained the KB seat back bracing and welded that into the new connectors, I think it's pretty trick.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 01:59 PM

Here's a pic of the inside of the car, where the connector meets up with the rear factory crossbrace. He put an extra plate in there, and welded everything together with the floor. Looks pretty strong and should work out well.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 02:02 PM

Ok, there was some rust where we cut out the sway bar mounts, and some other places in the car as well, he is taking care of those too. Here is a pic of one of them finished up.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 02:08 PM

Here are some pics I found of me out in my garage behind my house assembling my engine while smoking a cigar and probably drinking as well. Not highly recommended, but it all turned out ok, lol.
You can see the CP pistons and the dome on them, too. The titanium retainers and 10 degree locks too. I ported the heads a long time ago.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 02:12 PM

A few more pics of it after I got the heads on it. Those are cometic gaskets I am using. I didn't oring these heads, was trying something new, but if these don't work well, I am going to go with the new felpro's that I am using on my r/s car.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 02:19 PM

I thought a pic of the portwork might be in order. These pics aren't the greatest, but you can get an idea.

89notch

10-10-2009, 02:44 PM

Looks nice mike

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 02:56 PM

Here's a pic of the head after I was all done with the port work and assembly. Man, am I glad I have a real port bench now instead of that work bench. lol.

NXcoupe

10-10-2009, 03:43 PM

Thanks Kelly! It will have some of the custom billet stuff on it. ;)

bolender01

10-10-2009, 04:04 PM

that will be a sick ride when ur done, keep us posted

PonymanfiveO

10-12-2009, 10:39 PM

Just seen this....AWESOME!

cobra429boss

10-12-2009, 10:59 PM

You are always up to somethin mike . keep us updated cool project

NXcoupe

10-12-2009, 11:54 PM

Thanks guys. Yeah, it's amazing how much I get accomplished when I'm not there!

Carl

10-13-2009, 05:20 AM

Are you going to drive that one next year and let Matt drive the R/S car again?

NXcoupe

10-13-2009, 05:34 AM

I don't know. I hope to get to make some passes in it next year, but as far as campaigning it, I am not planning on it right now. It will be legal for the class, but I want to make sure it can run the number locally before going national with it. I am just excited to see it making progress after all the time of sitting collecting dust and I guess I'll address that when it gets finished and runs with everything working correctly, lol. that's going to take some time!

NXcoupe

10-27-2009, 02:37 PM

Ok, so I just sold the 8.8 rear end out of it. I am going to a 9" from Moser. Just got off the phone with them and they said it would be an aluminum center section with through bolts, 3.50 gear, spool, brand new heavy duty 9" housing with 1/4" thick steel, rear brace, 35 spline axles gun drilled and lightening holes drilled in the flanges with 5/8" studs and nuts in a four lug pattern so my brakes and bogarts still work. About 3k worth of rear axle. But he says it will hold up to the power, so it would be worth it in piece of mind. Got to start saving up for this one. I hope to have it for when the car comes back from paint and chassis, so the engine, trans, and rear end can all go in at once.
I have just about everything for this car. It's been in the process for about 5 years now, and about time it gets done!

NXcoupe

11-16-2009, 01:59 AM

Some more progress on the roll cage. There was a hold up waiting on bars to be sent out to me that were wrong in the kit. They arrived and he is back on it. There is no pressing need to get it done immediately, for obvious reasons, lol. So I told him to take his time and that way it gives us time to go back and forth through emails and make sure we are on the same page. I want this thing right, and I want it safe, so there is a lot of thought going into it.

NXcoupe

11-16-2009, 02:04 AM

A few more shots of the cage as it's getting tacked in. Cage has been welded on the top edge now, he finished that over the weekend, cage is chrome moly too. A lot better than the old mild steel crap I had in it before.

DeckerEnt

11-16-2009, 12:58 PM

Looking good there Mike!! Keep the pics coming!!!

NXcoupe

11-16-2009, 01:19 PM

I post them as he sends them to me. I am pretty excited, I want to see it complete when I get back home, the cage that is. The car won't be finished until late spring sometime. I have other priorities currently.

Blkcobra01

11-16-2009, 07:09 PM

Looking good Mike.

NXcoupe

11-26-2009, 01:59 PM

Thanks Patrick. I appreciate it. I hope the cage will be done and painted by the time I get home. Then it is off to Plated's for him to work his magic on it. We worked out a deal last year on the paint work. He's promised to out do himself on it. Can't wait!

NXcoupe

12-13-2009, 02:17 PM

Well more headway was made. Jason decided that an X would add some strength and more safety. I think it looks great and is going to be one stiff mo fo.
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252b0481980.jpg
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c23de2db.jpg
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c2436f7d.jpg

The rocker bars are in and tied to the seat bracing, and go between the front and rear down bars of the main hoop and front bars.
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c24829e4.jpg
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c24ced2f.jpg
Some work out on the inner fender, not really sure what its for yet, sent an email asking and I will post up on what it's there for when I find out, lol.
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c2527a97.jpg
And the X all fitted and tacked waiting for my approval, which I gave him! I am happy with it and my buddy Jason is doing it up for me, so it's all good! I got to talk to him about it before I left and while I have been over here, I get to talk to him about the progress and he keeps me in the loop, which means a ton to me.
http://www.daytonstangboard.com/forum/imagehosting/464b252c257382f.jpg

What do you guys think???

93hulk

12-13-2009, 02:25 PM

Looks good Mike.

92coupe

12-13-2009, 02:35 PM

Looks good. I would bet he is going to run a tube from that plate to the frame rail.

dsmawd350

12-13-2009, 02:48 PM

yeah what kind of goal are you wanting the cage to be certified to? may be a front bar coming through the firewall and strut tower to the framerail

NXcoupe

12-13-2009, 02:51 PM

Looks good. I would bet he is going to run a tube from that plate to the frame rail.
Yeah, that's probably what it is! I am waiting to hear from him and get confirmation.

Looks good Mike.

Thanks buddy!

NXcoupe

12-13-2009, 02:53 PM

yeah what kind of goal are you wanting the cage to be certified to? may be a front bar coming through the firewall and strut tower to the framerail

It's going to be good down to 7.50's. He's going to start on the funny car part of it, and has work to do underneath the car too. I am just really stoked to see progress and my dream becoming a reality.
Yeah, that's got to be what it is then. thanks!

DeckerEnt

12-15-2009, 10:12 AM

Look at those clean rust free frame rails!!!! I am so envious!!! Looks good Mike!!!!

adragon72

12-15-2009, 12:08 PM

its looking good mike

NXcoupe

12-15-2009, 02:43 PM

Thanks guys! I am pretty excited, not much to give me a smile over here, so seing pics of the progress on this really makes my day! Yeah, car was pretty solid, it's been off the road since about 97 or so. Should be a very sharp, detailed race car when it is finished up. Then I get to make a pass or two in it!

NXcoupe

12-18-2009, 03:11 PM

Ok, got a little more progress. He's putting the bars from the shock tower down to the front frame rail. As for the X, we are talking about maybe running that to a different location, but I'm not sure, going back and forth in emails is tough, lol. He welded in the new inner fender piece that we drilled the spot welds out of one of the cars I parted out way back when, then sandblasted it and he welded it in for me too. It's off to Plated's as soon as this cage is done.

More pics as I get them. Pretty excited to see this thing when I get home! finished or not, it's still cool to see it getting progress after all these years.

4barrel

12-22-2009, 07:57 PM

Sweet build! Thanks for your service overseas.

NUTTSGT

12-25-2009, 01:56 PM

Looks good, although it must suck only being involved through emails during the build.

NXcoupe

12-26-2009, 11:28 AM

Yeah, you got that right. If I was home, I would be at his place just about every spare minute I had. Maybe it's a good thing, I AM over here, lol. It's all good, at least it's getting done and will be just how I want it when I get back. What would suck is if it gets finished and someone buys it before I ever get to drive it. lol.

NXcoupe

12-27-2009, 01:45 PM

Well, he ran the bars from the cage inside to the shock towers, and finished out around the bars where the hood hinges used to go, so now the firewall is sealed around there. Pretty cool. I am really liking how how it looks so far.

k062693w

12-27-2009, 01:51 PM

Coming right along Mike !!! Looks Good

NXcoupe

12-27-2009, 02:10 PM

Thanks! I'm pretty psyched about it. for sure.

Mustard

12-27-2009, 02:30 PM

yep, its gonna be coll when its done for sure

NXcoupe

12-29-2009, 10:17 PM

Thanks Steve! I can't wait to get it over and painted, I'm thinking of leaving the car as a shell when it gets sprayed and have the roll bar painted too.

NXcoupe

02-15-2010, 11:39 AM

More pics of the progress. It's looking sweet. When I was home I got over to Jason's house and checked it out first hand. He is doing a great job, this thing is going to be sweet when it's finished. Lots more detail and things done than the pictures show.

NXcoupe

02-15-2010, 11:59 AM

Ok, a few more pics. Notice the X brace to the upper C/A braces, and the downbars to the lower C/A braces in the pictures above^. It is all in chrome moly too. Main hoop goes back to the rear of the frame rails.

NXcoupe

02-15-2010, 12:23 PM

This is a shot of the finished bars in the engine compartment. He also filled in the holes where the hood hinges used to go into. The other shot shows the bars going down to the sub frame connectors, the lower C/A torque box reinforcements, the X brace going to the upper torque box reinforcements, and the rocker bars and the reinforcement on the bottom of the main hoop.

TooFast98Cobra

02-15-2010, 03:36 PM

nice build man!!!

AZZKIKR

02-15-2010, 08:48 PM

Looking great man...

chad393na

02-15-2010, 10:23 PM

I can't believe what you've done to my '83!!! Looks awesome man, can't wait to see the end results!:bigthumb

DeckerEnt

02-15-2010, 11:24 PM

Looking good Mike!!

k062693w

02-15-2010, 11:28 PM

That's a Butt Load of Moly !!! LOL

Looks Killer Mike !!!

NXcoupe

02-16-2010, 01:05 PM

Thanks guys! Yeah, it's not even nearly complete yet, believe it or not. He's got an X brace to do in the roof, on the door bars, and the funny car cage, I'm going to have to have my legs made detachable to get in and out of the thing, lol.

plated

02-16-2010, 05:41 PM

lookin good bro.that's one helluva cage,that should keep ya safe going fast as your gonna be going:cool2: can't wait to lay some paint on that ba
dboy:)

NXcoupe

02-16-2010, 10:37 PM

Thanks brother, it was good seeing you and your littlle one while I was back. That will be coming your way soon.

NXcoupe

04-04-2015, 02:18 AM

Time to resurrect this thread.... Dave and I own this car again, sold all the pushrod and automatic stuff out of it, and now have a Coyote sitting in it and a Procharger F1 on it. Got Jason Zimmers to do some slight tweaks to it here and there, and modify the intercooler to work with the routing of the tubing. I need to get a way to host pics since my DSB account is in computer geek land.
Going to stick with a manual trans, stick with a stick, lol. It has a 9" Moser complete rear set up with altered upper mounting points and aluminum center, etc. Plated laid some cool paint on it, so it looks as good as it will run. Hope to have more info and progress as time allows.