MONZORA redux: ‘65 Corvair + ‘94 Corvette mashup for 2019 Challenge

Today's sounds: All Black Sabbath, All The Time!

are you a porn star?  Because you're so anal
 

Please remember your daughters pro-tip.  Don’t throw the engine, sir.

In reply to Patrick (Forum Supporter) :

If I was equipped for that line of work, I would be in that line of work.

Sabbath makes sense for building an LT1. Super heavy, but not super fast. 
 

couldn't help myself  

In reply to barefootskater :

You receive both a thumbs-up and a thumbs-down 

To get ready for mating the powertrain and joining it to the car, I had a bit of cleanup to do. I had stuff in the old engine bay:

and in the interior:

and on the floor underneath:

so I did my best to put away or throw away as much as possible, and eventually:

I even cleared off the shelf at the front, Er, uh, I mean the trunk:

before I could attach transaxle to engine, I went ahead and assembled the friction surface to the flywheel. Total of 21 bolts requiring clean and dry threads, and a dab of Loctite Red on each:

tightened in two steps, hence the two sharpie dots on each bolt head:

cleanup took a big chunk of the day, and with temp in the mid-80s plus a ton of humidity, I was pretty whipped by about 9PM. So I updated the list and called it a night.

not sure if I get garage time tomorrow. I know we are hosting dinner for my in-laws around 4.

Gooo LT1! I have one in a '94 Buick Roadmaster wagon. It's been great apart from an intermittent misfire. So easy to work on in the big B-body engine bay. Yours is looking mint!

F-ing LOVE the 5S and NO throw the engine!

I am loving this build!  I wish I was able to help with some custom damper tuning for you but no access to the dynos at work, etc.  I can do some CarSim simulation work for you within the month with enough data though!

In reply to PMRacing :

Please tell me that would be at your *new* job. 

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

Not yet...still hunting...

PMRacing said:

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

Not yet...still hunting...

PM'd

Didn't get anything.  Try philmatherracing at the g mail dot com.  Thanks!  If you work where I think you do according to LinkedIn, you might know my BIL.

EDIT: Got it and replied.  Thanks!!!

In reply to PMRacing :

I said "PM'd" before I actually PM'd. You should have something now.

I'm at Mobis in Plymouth these days.

Monday 5/25: Honey-do's and hosted dinner for in-laws

Tuesday 5/26: garage floor concrete repair

Wednesday 5/27: summer tire swaps for 3 vehicles, in the driveway. It was hot as balls. Scrubbed all six sets, inside and out.

Thursday 5/28: drive-thru HS graduation for AK1. Also AK2's birthday. And another dinner with the in-laws, this time at their place.

Friday 5/29: finally back on MonZora! Mostly did a bunch of measuring and figuring on how low I can mount the engine. Also laid out and cut a section of package tray to make room for back of intake, header exits, etc. Marked:

and cut:

i should have done this a year ago! Would have made frame grafting a little easier.

Going to get a late start tomorrow, because I'm taking AK1 and AK2 to late breakfast at Waffle House in Toledo. That'll be about a 3-hour ordeal. Covered chunked and peppered, baby!

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Wednesday 5/27: It was hot as balls. Scrubbed all six sets, inside and out.

Umm, whatever you're into bro.

LOVE the update, keep it up.

To Porsche folk the front is a "frunk".

The problem with starting Saturday (1) late and (2) at Waffle House is that the rest of the day is a let-down. The Future Hammer Store took way longer than it was worth, although I did get a couple of the cheap furniture dollies to steal the casters from:

Then I went to Home Depot and got some 2x4's to build some cribbing:

and that was about all I got done on Saturday. Today I knocked out a couple honey-do's, then started scheming on building a powertrain cart. Rather than start from scratch, I checked CL for engine stands and scored a couple of very low, homemade stationary stands, for $10 each:

they currently attach to the front engine mount pads and the bellhousing mating surface. I'm modifying them to support the back of the engine by the starter mount on RH:

and the clutch Z-bar attachment on LH:

And I'll move the rear verticals forward a couple inches so the whole contraption is forward of the bellhousing mating surface. Post-mod, they won't interfere with the adapter plate, so I'll keep one for engine-only and mod the other one to support the engine and transaxle, and also to bolt to my ATV lift, which will make powertrain installation and removal easier.

that's where I left off for tonight. Looking forward to getting these done so I can get on with powertrain mounts!

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

Going to get a late start tomorrow, because I'm taking AK1 and AK2 to late breakfast at Waffle House in Toledo. That'll be about a 3-hour ordeal. Covered chunked and peppered, baby!

A late friend of mine would order his “dropped chopped and hopped”... a few of the waitresses would get it!

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

But you did get an awesome family photo out of the day!!!

Also, rework sucks.

Measured outside-outside and inside-inside starter mount holes, averaged to get center-center. Wrote down a 2 instead of a 3, and made the part wrong the first time. 

Mods to engine stand turned out great. Picks up Z bar mount on LH:

and starter mount on RH:

and clears the adapter plate:

but it blocks the relocated starter and that's no bueno. Good thing I bought 2 of these. I'll keep this one for engine-only out of car, and mod the other one to attach to the adapter plate at the rear.