Fastfreddys 454ss

[Terrick down Under]

Looks like a map of Bathurst Race Track. Lots of planning.

[fredscarryall]

Kinda looks like a really expensive hamster or gerbil cage. With a running wheel, Instead of a supercharger. Maybe I should go that route. Would save a lot of money. But would go through
alot of hamsters.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by fredscarryall

Kinda looks like a really expensive hamster or gerbil cage. With a running wheel, Instead of a supercharger. Maybe I should go that route. Would save a lot of money. But would go through
alot of hamsters.

Hahaha!

[fredscarryall]

This is the nice part about having interlocking bolt on clamps. Welded the entire cage in the driveway. Don’t have any nasty angle or areas missed because you can’t get the welding tip in. Then I can paint it and not miss the top because the roof. The welds look funny from a distance, but they actually really nice. The clamps and mounting plates are cabon steel. When I welded it, the carbon in the metal left black streaks around the welds. Have to wait for 1 more clamp to show up, to weld the cross brace on the back hoop. While I have the cage out. I going to install dynomat, insulation, new carpet, new seats and paint the floor.

[Terrick down Under]

Love it!!

[Terrick down Under]

Gee that looks great, but the bends are just like I feel at the moment. Renoing the office and one bedroom. Keep the pics coming.
BTW, are you going to trim the pipe work with material?

[fredscarryall]

Planning on putting this style red padding on. It’s only $3.99 for a 3 foot stick and it just Velcro’s on the cage. I really wanted the red neoprene wrap around pad with a Velcro Lock down .but they stopped selling it Also bought a firextinguisher base mount. All interior is out and dynomat is installed. Going to install a foil backed padding and a new padded carpet. Big sound difference with just the just mat. a sound difference. It’s so solid. Started raining so I couldn’t paint the cage down switch

[fredscarryall]

Got the roll cage finish painted before it started to rain. Now it’s going to rain till Friday. Got it done in a couple hours and worked another hour installing carpet pad over there dynomat. Tomorrow glue the carpet in, put in the cage and bolt it down. Then if I have time I will put the seats and console in and tyde up the wires a little more

[fredscarryall]

Pics

[fredscarryall]

More pics

[Terrick down Under]

That is looking good. You must be happy with the way it looks.

[fredscarryall]

Went to 2 car shows this year. I would I took home a trophy on the first one, but they forgot to make the trophy and didn’t even announce the muscle truck class. This was a pretty organized show with over 400 cars.For some reason the obs trucks or trucks in general have a hard time in car shows around here. They haven’t really caught on yet. The Second car show I went to, I took home a trophy. But they lost it and didn’t find it till the end of the show. But I don’t go to car shows to win awards, I go to hang out with my friends.

[Terrick down Under]

Well done, hard work has paid off!

[68 TT]

Lots of great ideas and research for mods to our trucks. Great work.

I wanted to add that putting the closed chamber 396 heads on would have been a mistake just to raise the compression. The valve size is no bigger and the flow of the heads isn't enough better to be worth the effort and expense of rebuilding them. The closed chamber 396 heads have a bad valve shrouding issue in stock valve size with higher lift cams and it becomes a severe hindrance to air flow if you put the 2.19 & 1.88 valves into them. The later model open chamber versions like the 049 casting flow substantially better and are the one to go with if you want a large oval port stock head on an engine.

That being said the peanut port heads on our TBI 454 engines have a whole lot more performance potential than most people give them credit for. Even with the stock valve size they flow enough air to make some pretty good power in naturally aspirated form on an engine with good compression, a decent sized cam and a good flowing top end and exhaust. These were all the reasons the heads have a poor reputation to begin with. The stock compression is pathetic, the cam is unbelievably tiny and the intake & exhaust systems choke down what little air could get to or out of the heads so heavily that they never had a prayer of making any decent power in a stock TBI 454. With your supercharger, better intake, bored out TBI and headers all you need is a cam with the correct profile to work right with boost and still be computer control friendly so it is tunable and you are good to go.

[fredscarryall]

Look what showed up. So far I’m 4 hours into it. That included going to the parts store. I took my time today installing the procharger intake hat, all the upper intercooler tubing that I can access from under the hood, the procharger with bracket and the belt. Tomorrow I will install the purge valve, fuel regulator line and emissions tube. Then the lower tubing for the intercooler and the intercooler from underneath. Hopefully I can Fire it up on Wednesday, retard the timing about 5 degrees and hook up the boost pressure gauge that I already installed. I just have to hook up the line. So far no big problems. The kit came with 111 inch belt and I had to get a 118 inch belt. I also had to grind 1/8 off a little tab off the front of the tbi for the hat spacer. I spent a little extra time on the procharger bracket. The bolts where a little tricky but not too bad. The cool part is I didn’t have to remove anything. I had to swap out the alternator bolt, the upper water pump bolt and power steering bolt for longer bolts with a spacers.The one thing so far that required thinking was the belt routing around the procharger. Just to let everyone know, the instructions are really old and not very good. Luckily I know mosty what to do. The rest is mechanical common sense.

[fredscarryall]

I have till March 13 to get my truck ready for the Portland Roadster Show. If I get approved. The only things I need to do are, I want to respray the roof, use a painless process to remove a couple dings, clean up the interior, hookup the subs and amp, and make a real carbon fiber console insert. Then cut and buff. If I don’t get into the Roadster Show at least I will be ready for the car show season. I’m also kicking around the ideas of a red euro vinyl stipe like this dodge truck stipe that’s pictured. Also thinking about adding a rim stripe.

[fredscarryall]

I thought this was funny and a good way to try to convince your wife on buying a procharger

[Palf70Step]

[arrg]

You'll see much improved intake air temps if you can redirect that intake over behind the headlights instead of right above the header where Procharger leaves it.

[fredscarryall]

Thanks guys. Arrg i didnt even think about the intake yet, I agree. I don’t like where the intake sits either. Next I will have to make some sort of intake tube and maybe incorporate into the hood to get fresh air or Behind the headlight. There isn’t much room anywhere. In front of the headlight would give the intake tube a tough angle. But I will try it first with flexible tube for mock up.Whatever I do. Its got to get away from that header.

[jjzepplin]

I think the stripe on the rims would look nice. I just got a little giddy inside when I thought of how good it is going to feel for you to drive this. JELLO!

[mingoman]

Nice!

[fredscarryall]

Wow. Took it for its maiden voyage today. It had to have added 250 to 300 horse power with only 7 psi of boost. Not to bad for a bolt on. Runs really good. When it spools up, you can hear it kick in and it sets you back in your seat.You punch it at 30 mph and it kicks it sideways .I Let it get to temperature in the driveway. Then I got in about a 15 minute drive 3 times around the block and drove it for 1 mile. Pulled it in the driveway for 5 minutes. Was going to go for a longer drive and suddenly the outside temperature dropped and it started snowing and sticking. It never snow around here in March. Oh well at least I know it runs awesome. A lot of people might think adding this much horsepower to a stock motor in crazy. But it shouldn’t be a problem because I won’t Bury my foot into the gas pedal everywhere I go.

[fredscarryall]

So instead of going for a nice long drive. Not wasting any time. I still have to prep for the Roadster Show next week.Since I have a heater in the garage, I removed the fake carbon fiber wrap on the wing and front diffuser. Then painted them matte black. If this weather keep up, I don’t know if I will be able to paint my roof before the car show. The shop heater works good for small paint projects. But with the temperature outside I won’t be able to paint the bigger project. I also made up some real carbon fiber and I’m going to replace the center console shifter plate.

[fredscarryall]

At the Portland Roadster Show