Putting the motor together. This is the first motor I have assembled myself.
Motor in the car, thats a few nights ago. Its ready to be plugged in and intake put on now.
Not a great pic, but thats the new midwest chassis tunnel mounted torque arm. (4l80s dont have a trans mount for tqarm) Love this piece, its definitely going to cost me my rear end. You can see where the exhaust is cut off, for some reason the previous owner decided to go 3 inch collectors to 2 1/2 inch back to 3 inch. I will replace it all with 3 inch, w/ an electric QTP cutout.
Right before we mated the tranny to the motor.
I didnt get a pic of the shifter etc, but I fabbed up a cover for the tunnel, and did some tweaking and was able to mount the stock Auto shifter and console, looks stock as a rock you would never know. Really proud of myself for making that work so perfectly~
Car will be started tomorrow night, tuned on motor over the next week.. then the fun begins..