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Lowered the cutty and got her running on 15 psi of boost. Thinking of taking her up to brainard raceway in September and gettin some runs in

^ don't necessarily agree with that synopsis, the purpose of the nylon *replacement* block is to provide a *soft* sliding surface for the end of the spring to move back & forth on so the spring doesn't rub against the cast iron knuckle which would destroy the spring in short order. Dorman does make an OEM replacement for the lost rubber insulator, but there's much to do to get the bottom side of the old spring clean enough so that the included adhesive with stay there. Your knuckle castings are looking mighty rough, a smooth surface is needed for the rubber isolator to properly flex, all that rust more than likely had something to do with the isolator breaking free.

Cam is in, got engine bay cleaned up and wires wrapped a little better, exhaust painted aswell

Little update, we got it tuned pretty good just having trouble making boost. Fixed a couple leaky intercooler pipes and it takes forever to build boost. Thinking maybe the 2 1/2 is too big for the turbo piping, probably will go to 2 inch. We have cam to put in which will help aswell. More vids coming soon

Haha yeah it’s pretty sweet we are still having trouble making boost, got a couple leaks we need to tame. Aiming for just ab 5 psi until we run out of injector and hoping the 4t65 holds up. more videos coming soon once it’s nice out

Intercooler is installed we had to do some fab work to make it dual pass. Blow off and wastegate installed, just finishing touches and it’s tuning time.

Little update…. She starts right up and can move in and out of the shop. We still need to tune my tranny and engine some more to get everything right. Radiator, fan, and hoses are on the way and we should be able to get that all in. We gotta drop the cradle one more time to detail and paint my engine bay so everything looks nice and she’ll be nice and purdy

1991 model year

is it really that much bigger than the NorthStar? ?? strut tower has not been modified

Great work! Thje first start is always the best! Looking forward to seeing how you finish it all off!!

Custom controls arms done which completes the front end, now on to wiring… :’) wiring just about done, and a lil sneak peek at the turbo kit. hopefully will get a first start up later this week

It was hard to start tearing her apart but it had to be done.

Awesome work!

You are a very brave man for doing this, all the best of luck with this conversion.