*STYX* (Wutzdat)...IT'S ALIVE..!!
 

I usually just plop a car together and then drive it..But this one is gonna most likely be the last one.
SO,I figured I should document it.

1986 Coupe with a 302 Carbed engine/T5 Trans.

I'll start off with a pic of what " I am working with".The hood was cut for fitment and reference.It was crap anyways..bent and sloppy paint..lol.
I am almost done the New hood...I'll post it up when I download my phone.

*if you are wondering what "WUTZDAT" is..it is gonna be the License Plate on the car..

..............................Fly by.......................zooooooom.......What's That?..................

needs a 350, cause im a chevy man!

I got a "deal".

2 cars.
One with a 302 and grannys kit already installed.
another parts car.
2 spare diffs
One S5 TII engine with Transmission.
2 sets of wheels besides what was on the cars.

I sold all the spare stuff and what I got left is My project.
..pretty well FREE.

*Chevy doesn't make Bullit wheels..heh,heh!

At least you put a Ford engine in it.

Looks identical to the built 302 that my brother put in his 94 cougar

So are the plans to stay carbed or fi ? I just swapped a 96 5.0 expo with gt40 heads into my 94 ranger . Wanted to go t5 but was worried about it coming apart ( non wc t5 ) . Looking forward to this build . Subscribed

for a weekend warrior its probably not worth the hassle to switch to FI, for a car that still has a relatively mediocre blue book.

It WAS EFI.
I went as far as getting all the crap to wire it up then ..ARGGGGHHH!..said screw it.
Something just didn't look right to me and I knew that a Carbed engine can be hooked up with just a couple wires,fuel and exhaust.
So,I took the easy way out.
Easy though..Not really when you gotta factor in the height of the engine and make it fit.
I got the spacer kit..(what a job that was.).

The engine "can fit" under a regular hood but you'd be running without a filter.
I got a Edelbrock triangular foam air filter which was about as low as I think you can go.
..BUT then I got the Big Idea of going to a Scoop..and that took another Toll on the brain cells.

I kept telling people "I DON'T DO BODY WORK"..(can't stand it,I tried it,suck at it..I don't have the patience for it).
Well I took it on anyways when I decided to put a Boss 429 replica scoop on the N/A aluminum hood.
NOW I know why I should have stuck with my own words!..BUT!..I "read up on the Internet" and decided to do it anyways.
Praise helps But honestly I do this for Myself and I made myself happy after I saw my results.
It's not a Professional job but neither am I,and for not being a Bodyman,I did just fine.
Like the owner it may not look pretty but it will last for a couple years and do the job..haha!

*downloading IOS update and pics from my phone so pics will come Asap.

Ok,as promised.
Here are the steps(as pics) I made to decide the final look of the hood.
Pic#1 is the old scoop showing the cuts and how the engine sits..and what needed to be covered.
Pic#2 is a scoop I picked out ..BUT it just didn't look right once I got it home and placed it on.
Too wide,and it looks like it sags in the middle..So...Toss that shit.

Pic#3...FINAL choice..Boss 429 Replica Fiberglass scoop,made by ShowcarsRob in Ontario,Canada.
I had to do some trimming and I'll show you more the next thread.

Alrighty then..lol..!
Here is the Hood scoop.
I attached the scoop with angle aluminum,rivets bolts and body adhesive!You could probably place a tow hook in it and pull the car backwards and it would stay on..haha!
Fiberglassed all around it,Body filled,spot puttied..put a freakin fork in it?..NOPE..had to redo the damn thing as I got Shrinkage..(and I wasn't even in the swimming pool..wtf?)

YELLOW Zinc Chromate Primer..(not going to be the color of the car!).
Yellow and black just for a "what if I did it this way..and I had a Yellow Mustang??
Screw that!
BLACK Primer on the hood.

Sprayed 2 coats of Satin Black on it.
It's rattle canned,looks half decent and no tiger stripes.I love the paint I am using as the can has a double wide spray and you can cover the areas so easily and not get lines as much like some other spray can paints.

*CLOKKER!..I know you'll love this!...the Grill inside the scoop is a cut portion of a Pontiac Acadian Grill...trimmed with a Dremel and body adhesived into the scoop.
It was a lot of work,but Hey!..I wanted Different than the honeycomb plastic shit~!

I am still not done.I am painting the scoop's inner grill "aluminum finish" ..

Since I put the 2nd coat on today I focused on the front...(here we go..oh no!)
I took the front bumper off and started test fitting the New Front fiberglass Bumper.
Who the HELL puts those bolts way up in the corner?....Octopussy?

And I do.
Wish I could go carbed...

Oooooo is this the one I saw when I came by for a visit last fall?

Yes Jenn it is.

Dammit..your avatar should be RIBS...!..(all I can think about now~!)

Ignition.
The old Duraspark ignition box changed out to a "home made/Got it off the Internet" Ignition.
It uses a GM Module.It allow you to run a high voltage coil without the resistor wiring.
The box was off the Rx7,I think a anti-theft thingie.It was under the dash and I had it handy.
So I thought..hmm..So,I used the box to house the module and made a heat sink from a piece of 1/8 aluminum.

Nice ignition conversion . My friends did the same to his fox . Works . Also did a single wire gm alt conversion

I just hope I did it right.,The engine still has not been fired up.

Update: got the front Bumper on..finalizing fitment.

RE-Painted the hood..again..haha..but I went with the color of the car..Blue..Black scoop..
Turned out rather "sexsay.."

Projection light kit is half installed.
I need to line up basically everything on the front and figure out what to use to make the hood,bumper and lights "mold together"..like weatherstrip.

Rear bumper is off..new bumper half on..doing fitment.The bumper eliminates the side molding and markers.BUT taking a look I am sure that I will end up cutting the Fiberglass and installing them on top of that area where the old lights were.
That way I will retain side markers.

Update:
wired up the 4 light system using 55 watt LO and 100 Watt HI H3 bulbs...should be impressive when I test that stuff out..haha!.

I mocked up a sway bar that was "supposedly" fine to clear the oil pan on the 302..Yes it does but it is not looking right at the ends.
I may go back to the Drawing board on that.May have to drop the stock bar and uses some spacing between the brackets and frame...(that is one option of many I am contemplating).

I also got around to trying to slap the H Pipe on the short style headers and it got me pissed..lol..RRR!..bang,clang..ow..hit in the head with a pipe..greasy hair....low car..bang..ow..Dammit!
So I "fixed that too"..
BBK 1569 Long tube Headers.

I commented on your wiring question, but I may have been late to the party. How did you end up wiring it up?

Is it anything like what I suggested, or did you find a better way?

I did the 2 relay,..one LO and One HI deal.
LO is 55watts and HI is 100watts.

I appreciated the reply but it was done by the time you posted..
Thanks immensely though..any help is great help!

UPDATE:..BBK 1569 Headers Installed on the 302..
No real big problems other than the oil tube is a snot bag to attch to the Header bolt,and you need to figure out how to tighten the bolts when you can't get a socket on the bolts or get at all faces of the bolt with a wrench.
Suggestion for anyone installing these headers is to Squeeze the tubes at the flange to allow you to at least turn the bolts into the head.
I used ARP bolts.

NOTE: BBK supplys the Header gaskets and bolts..So Do NOT order an exhaust Gasket set as it will be smaller in the ports.

Another suggestion is to "love tap" on the passenger side one of the pipes that seems very close to the bell housing on the trans.It Can be installed as is BUT I whacked it with a hammer just to see some daylight on the 2 parts...not really necessary but I did it anyways.
The underside looks pretty decent,and with the granny's trans mount (T5) it looks like a slight bend or "tapping the mount' to run the exhaust midpipes to the back will be needed.
This will be a custom set up anyways so When I looked at the install after I did it I was really surprised that I cleared a lot of stuff under the car..Almost a straight shot From header to rear(to diff area)

That's one thing I have run into on V8 headers with large primary tubes is they tend to forget that they need to be bolted, so they make huge primary tubes that you have to bang around to get to fit. You won't run into any flow issues with doing that, so its perfectly fine to massage them to clear.

Case in point with "massaging" headers.

This was not that drastic.
just a quick tap to get a little dent in the metal so you could work with it..Not crimp the metal and squish it to shit so it looks like it got ran over by the EX..lol!

*posted schematic in that thread..

Update:
I rolled the Car OUT of the garage for the First time in close to a year!.The NEW Tires have finally seen a whole Revolution..on actual Ground!
I pretty well had to do this as I could not open the doors in a ten foot wide Portable garage to fully access the interior and get the doors Off..lol!

So..now the Doors are OFF and sanded,apart for paint.
New aftermarket skirts are trimmed and test fitted,ready to get primed and painted.

Basically I am now onto the Body,to make it "look like" a car.
It still needs a lot of work but I need a boost!.I figure if I can get the damn thing to at least look like a whole car then the rest of the work will be a piece of cake!

UPDATE!!
Car is Painted and awaiting some door rubber.
Body kit is ON..rear lights and spoiler are on..for now(minimal bolts),as I am tidying up back there.
I cut the rear side of the bumper with a dremel and installed the rear side markers.Pic is up of that.
Also a pic of the Paint on the roof around the Glass sunroof that came with the car.

OH..big surprise today..the Glass guy came over to the house and installed a New Windshield..Yahooooooo! (day early!)

All the seals and trim on these cars is a killer. How many appendages and first born children did you have to give up?

I kept some rubber off the old cars I had but still not the exact pieces I needed..crap.!
The door weather strip is 97 cdn a piece..It'll be here tomorrow...not bad really considering the windshield molding was 170 ..a PIECE..Each Side...
Actually the windshield cost LESS to get and install than the molding was.

KIDS?..nope..unless...that one time at Band Camp...