The Tinman: Driveway V8 Build

[Ayrton]

I'm liking this

Whats up with that kawasaki-chevy shirt?

Thanks!

But that is my dad, he says it's from when chevy used to sponsor the kawasaki motocross team? He is into motocross, we've got like......... 10 bikes? Something like that lol

[Motoman325]

I'm liking this

Whats up with that kawasaki-chevy shirt?

[Ayrton]

So another little update, started painting up the interior, got BMW charcoal which turned out to look pretty much like the original paint but a little darker/greyer but I think it will look good.





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Also got the front brakes together and on..



And then after like 10 months the car was on 4 wheels again!







Will need to do some adjusting of the ride height/camber but I forgot how good it looked on the ground haha

Also put in the S5 tail lights and got cutting the carpet (No pictures of that)





Also got a 16" rad fan and mounted that up



And that's about it....

Going to hopefully get an exhaust made up this week and start putting the interior/seats back in!

[floatingdino]

Please keep the intake like that. ahhaha
But seriously great stuff man.

please don't

[Ayrton]

Please keep the intake like that. ahhaha
But seriously great stuff man.

I would love to just run the exhaust right out the hood or something like that but because I am dailying it probably not the greatest idea haha

.. Little update though the heater core starter to leak a bit, so I replaced the old hose on it, went to start the car and it was having some trouble, my dad said he saw some smoke coming from the main fuse box so I stopped cranking it, now it seems the starter motor isn't getting enough power to turn it over... So either some wiring problems, bad starter or my dad has reasons to believe it may be a problem with the alternator but not entirely sure right now.. Will hopefully figure somethings out tomorrow

[IV.]

Please keep the intake like that. ahhaha
But seriously great stuff man.

[Ayrton]

Great progress so far OP, can't wait to see it finished.

Years back I met a guy who had a really nice LSX FC and he took me autocrossing in it. I have to say the car drives amazingly well and feels very balanced.

You won't regret going this route over rotary, please keep this updated!

Thank you!
I am sure I won't although I know either one would make me happy.

But exciting update! Don't have too many pictures but I will just dump what I have..

So got the rad a little protected and fitted it back into the car, as well I started ripping apart the doors so that I could clean them up and redo them..







Both headers in, passenger side looks perfect, the transmission tunnel will need to be banged out a big to fit the drivers side and will probably go down to 2.5" piping



Front suspension pretty much done, just need to rebuild the hubs


Finished up the heater core and got it in the car...



Got some fluids and started prepping the car to be started up!!!



Unicorn power





and after some electrical problems (just forgot a ground and had to give the fuel pump some external power..) IT FIRES UP! Fired it up a few times but the footage was so poor I am not going to post it but now it starts up great.. Got a lot of work left to get it on the road but definitely exciting and a big step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RPSNYU9ZI&feature=youtu.be

Video of it running camera died while recording but yeeeeEEAAAAAHHHHH!

[electricalbox]

Great progress so far OP, can't wait to see it finished.

Years back I met a guy who had a really nice LSX FC and he took me autocrossing in it. I have to say the car drives amazingly well and feels very balanced.

You won't regret going this route over rotary, please keep this updated!

[Ayrton]

Back with another update, we are approaching the day we get to fire it up soon (and hopefully drive it not long after) but I'll dump some more picture of what we've been doing.......

So shortly after my last post these arrived!

From jagsthatrun

Makeshift painting booth for new calipers




Fronts





Rear brakes off


Racing beat sway bar


The old end links

Aaannnddd like new.. kind of.. but new polyurethane bushings





New sway bar bolted in, will soon be done with the rear but waiting on left side calipers to come in...


Grinding off old carpet from mold to glue on new carpet

Ceramic coated headers


Got some titanium wrap and I think it turned out pretty well for my first time..

First header

Figuring out how to wrap second header.. tubes got very close so I got a little creative but I think it turned out well, I assumed over wrapping was better than under wrapping..




Old carpet out and getting some wiring done





Random picture from under the car while installing heat shield..


Cleaned up and replaced inner tie rod, and ball joint on front.. Will be finishing that up soon and then I can get the brakes on, also got stainless steel lines..

After some banging of the transmission tunnel we managed to get one header in


So that's about where we're at, wiring is pretty much done, will be working on getting the other header to fit soon but making progress! Need to get the new carpet in and paint the dash..

Can't wait to drive it so hopefully we have a productive week, my dad is getting knee surgery June 9th so the count down is on.

[Ayrton]

Thank you all for the kind words, I follow a few used wheel dealers on instagram but firstly need to get the car started and running then I can worry about wheels!

Sadly between exams and having to get my wisdom teeth removed I haven't been able to make much progress but my collection of parts is growing and hopefully by next week I'll have some better updates but might as well show off what I've got and dump some random pictures






Rebuilt front and rear calipers




Carpet from stockinteriors, and racing beat sway bars


Suspension bits!

No idea how my mother hasn't lost her mind with all these boxes filling up the house but I am feeling slightly overwhelmed but hopefully everything goes quickly from here on out!

The little bit of progress we've made..


Heater core inlet and outlet were hitting the engine so we are rerouting them through different holes..





Also removed pretty much all of the interior








Back seats out which we will have reupholstered to cloth and black so I can shove my friends into the tiny seats

Random pic of engine bay



Got the battery wiring routed to the trunk but no pictures... Headers should be here tomorrow and will hopefully start making some actual progress very soon!

Slightly worried about piecing everything together because I probably could've been a lot more organized throughout this process.. One of the biggest lessons I've learned is to next time be over organized.. lol. But I'm sure we will figure it out, just would've gone a lot easier had I labeled absolutely everything I pulled

Need to finish the wiring, get throttle cable figured out as we got a longer one but now it is too long.

But that's about it for now!

[TWM Performance]

This is going to be EPIC!

Renato
Team TWM Performance

[244Brick]

Ultimate Kais!!!!!

[iadubber]

Nice car! I love LS swaps!

[DeltaAlpha9]

I really like those wheels. I wish they made more than one wheel design in 4x100. Looks like you're making solid progress on the LS swap.

[floatingdino]

If you're on a budget for wheels, just keep your eyes open on CL/S|W classifieds. You can usually find something good with a bit of patience.