Fastfreddys 454ss

[mingoman]

Looking AWESOME Fred! I'd love to hear a clip of that running when the updates are finished.

[Terrick down Under]

Me too, love to hear it!

[fredscarryall]

Thanks guys. Hydroboost is taking longer then expected. Now I just have to finish the brake arm modification and plumb the lines.Going to start the engine modifications In the next couple weeks. I just need to buy the push rods and lunati roller lifters. I had to wait for the refund on the amazon Chinese lifters. Diffently will video my truck after the upgrades to the engine. The only thing I’m really worried about is getting the chip burn on the computer to run good with such a big cam. Going to put up more pics of the hydroboost and how well it works tomorrow.

[fredscarryall]

I Couldn’t get the master cylinder to seat inside the hydro boost. So I added a willwood push rod spacer. Also desided to use a welded on carriage bolt and a nylock nut instead of the weak little clip on the brake arm

[fredscarryall]

Finished the hydroboost today. Now I see what the hype is all about. Man this truck stop like you won’t believe

[Terrick down Under]

The best thing about going fast,....is..... , being able to stop. Well done.

[fredscarryall]

Got the valve covers installed today. Had to drill a hole in the valve cover on the passenger side for the pcv valve. Don’t care for the chrome oil filler/vent cap.

[fredscarryall]

Got the champion radiator and electric fans installed. Just have to wire it up and figure out where to put the temp sensor. Then fab a radiator cover, to cover the ugly on top of the radiator. Took about an hour removing the old and installing the new. All the fittings and hoses fit perfect. The only problem I had, was I needed to take one of the tranny lines and pop it off the bracket on the passenger side to get it to thread in to the radiator. Because it was off a few inches.

[Terrick down Under]

It won't be long and, no more bench racing for you.

[fredscarryall]

Don’t have any ports for the temperature sensor for my electric fan. So I ordered a 1” water neck spacer. Since I didn’t like my chrome oil cap, I also got a proform billet oil cap/vent. I also made a radiator cover with an old 30” harbor freight sheet metal brake and 2 left over aluminum door kick panels from Home Depot

[fredscarryall]

Here’s pics of my radiator cover. Made it in three parts because I still wanted to use my upper radiator mounts.

[Big Daddy Bear]

That cover looks great, good work!!

[Terrick down Under]

Yes indeed, very professional cover.

[fredscarryall]

Got the water neck spacer in and the oil filler cap. I don’t like how the upper radiator hose looks. It was cut to short from the previous owner.Wired up the electric fans with the thermostat and a bypass switch. works good .Started it up and found out one of my tranny lines had a bad flare. I can’t find a metal tranny line locally. so Im using a hose fitting because the back half of my tranny line is rubber hose already

[Terrick down Under]

Things work, when they want to. Did you keep details for the thermostat spacer?
Looks good.

[fredscarryall]

I bought the spacer from summit racing. It has an o ring style gasket that goes toward the intake manifold and a flat surface at the top to mount your water neck to with a gasket. I used two 2” 3/8s bolts that were the perfect length to go into the intake without going to deep. I put in a high flow 180 degree thermostat that the spacer fit right on top of with no clearance problem. The spacer has 2 open 3/8 npt threaded ports. I Plugged one off. But I may use it later. I really don’t like using spacers. But I have no choice. There are only three water ports for senders on the entire motor. One On the intake for the ecm. One for the temp sender to the gauge on the drivers head and one on the passanger head for the auxillary fan. I bought the dual fan relay kit off summit and it came with one 170 off 185 on 3/8 npt thread sensor. Then just bought a electric fan toggle switch to mount on the center console I built. So if want to run the fans when the truck is off or when I want the fans to run at a different time the the temp sender allows.

[fredscarryall]

I didn’t like the circuit breakers for the 2 hot wires that came with the summit fan relay kit. Circuit breakers suck when your out somewhere and your fans stop working and you don’t have a test light. So I bought two 10 gauge fused wires with 40 amp fuses.

[fredscarryall]

I got my Rhodes racing roll cage last week. Went to Home Depot today any picked up some electrical pvc 30,45,90 and 1 1/4 pvc pipe which measure exactly the same 1 5/8 o.d. as the Rhodes rollcage. I think this is one of the easiest ways to work it up.I Don’t care for how the front down tubes look. I haven’t decided if I want to do a single 30 degree bend or a double 45 degree bend.Since I can’t afford a mandrel bender or want to go to a custom shop and have my roll cage built. I am going to take my down tube to my muffler shop down the street and for $40 they will bend them. Here is a rough mock up of my double 45, I just have to slightly clock it and finish glueing it. If this is to complicated of a bend for the muffler shop I will do the single 30 bend.I am also making this cage a true bolt with interlocking tube clamps from summit racing and a 4 point instead of a 10. For all you haters, I know this cage will never pass tech. So please save your comments. For the price you can’t beat it. At some point I will have a correct 10 point built. As soon as I stop upgrading speed parts and interior. Which may be a few years down the road. The nice part is I will just have the down tubes and halo redone because they are the only bars with bolt in clamps . Then add the extra 6 points since I have those already.

[fredscarryall]

Couple pics. First two aren’t mine. First is double 45 and second is single 30. Last pic is of the upper halo

[Terrick down Under]

Nothing better than a good template.

[fredscarryall]

I had to do the single 30 degree on the down tubes. It actually fit closer to the dash and gave me more leg room. The muffler shop mandrel bender could hardly handle a 30 degree angle. They had to heat the tube up a a little bit with a torch. The bend looks bad but its just the coating on the tube that got crusty. The bend is really smooth. Couldn’t use the sun visor. I will just make a plastic panel to cover the hole in the headliner from the visor. I will have to find one that possibly mounts to the cage. Still have enough room for the hood release. I also hand to remove the emergency brake. I going to switch over to the hand brake on the camaro center console.

[Terrick down Under]

You won’t kick the speakers, lots of measuring has paid off well.

[fredscarryall]

Got roll cage all cut and tacked in. Now it’s time to pull it out and finish welding and paint it. Had to use a couple more interlocking clamp then expected. That ok I won’t use any on the next cage.

[fredscarryall]

Took my valve covers off over the weekend and it turns out this truck has had some good head work already done with some porting and bigger valves. It also looks like the edelbrock intake was put on just shortly before I bought it. I’m not going to do the 396 heads,roller upgrade, bigger cam and chip. I going to sell all that and go with a procharger. The new prochargers are a little pricey. They make them for the 5.7, 7.4, vortec and LS. If you don’t order the 600b procharger,you don’t have to run an oil line. The system actually adds to your existing pulley system so there is no extra crank pulley to install. At least on the 88,89 and 90 models with tbi there is no chip or programming of the ecu. You will get almost 600 horse and you can use your own high flow fuel pump and regulator that is supercharger sensitive. This system has to have an inter cooler that is included and designed to fit. You can also order the kit that adds the fmu fuel regulator and inline fuel pump.

[fredscarryall]

Some pics