Installing a BIG BLOCK Chevy and TH400 in the Race Truck! (Will it even fit?)

Hello, welcome back to the Vice Grip workshop. The work continues in El Mascado, whatever we call ourselves. Look, there are still 49,612 things to do on the

truck

. The big goal we need to achieve is this in a transmission permanently bolted to that platform. up there, but that means there are a lot of little things that need to be done first before we can do what I just said we had to do a minute ago, okay let's get started, the harman performance transmission should be here tomorrow or at least that's how it is. what the pocket computer case tells me on the track after application 6000.

That means we should probably go ahead and button this up and get it ready for that, we have to finish the valve train. I have the order custom pushrods so we can finish the valve tray and put some valve covers on this thing, put an oil filter pan on it, probably go ahead and put the starter on it, basically everything to just set it up and then we

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have to fight fight with the heads when we get to that point after that we

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move on to other things we have to talk about the back here we finally find out everything that is going on back there we have some neat things that we will talk about we have to figure out the boxes of batteries, we have to figure out the fuel, we have to start talking about the wiring, where everything that is going to go into the

truck

has to be disassembled, so when we set this up we are not fighting over it trying to take out old stuff I think I just make a to-do list actually on any Houston Lane where we get started on this bad boy here now that we have the pushrods.

I went with a Hi Texas build, they're kind of a I mean, they're quality, but they're not low end, they're not super high end either, you know, 20 bucks a piece, these should work fine and move things, the truth went ahead and they told me that more or less I like my weak point to be the pushrod so if something happens we will bend the pushrods instead of locking new valves and pistons like we had before so Let's go ahead and start cleaning our rockers, cleaning the pushrods and getting ready. those for installation using some Ultra gold 1.7 roller tip rockers, the same ones we used before, worked perfectly fine and this is a custom ground cam made specifically for 1.7 rockers.

I'm throwing them in the Ziploc bag that I borrowed from Jessica's kitchen and What we're going to do is cover it with a good thinner. I'll make sure they're absolutely perfectly clean and then we'll take them out and lubricate them before we install them, but this is Step One you want. Make sure when you install or build a motor, do I have a leak in this bag? Jessica, okay, plan s

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. Comes back. You want to make sure that when you install any engine component it is as clean as possible. I want to waste all that time, money and effort on some junk checking out your beautiful new engine.

The right time to see if paint thinner removes the floor covering. That's great. You know, here we go. This is crazy. Look at these networks. Don't know. I know if you can see this and all over the truck there are a few Jillian spiders and now they have crossed over and are getting into the beams of the garage door. Someone mentioned the name Charlotte for the truck I like. the cage pipes look like charlotte's web plus it's a play on charlotte's web plus you know charlotte

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way I don't know guys let me know what you think the other one is a pipe dream.

I like that masquerade. I was going to call it Black Velvet, but maybe not, it's going to take a lot of that to finish. That guy upgraded my bag for the push rods she holds tight. I like to do it this way because you can massage them and work on them. There could be impurities in there due to machining manufacturing shipping that you really don't know about and this is just the first step in making sure these puppies are clean. We'll throw them in here and let them cook for a minute while they're sitting. let's go ahead and get in oh yeah it's not a Mopar let's put in a GM starter you know it sounds normal yeah I made a change to the starter here.

I ended up choosing Dino Forces from MSD, it says right here, made in the USA. I like that super high quality stuff, they already have it pre-programmed for you and everything when we set this up here should be nice and tight to the

block

, ie. there are three presets here instead of those cheap ones where I have to roll them up and use super shims or there are collars that you have to put in here, it comes with shims, but of course we're not going to use any so after this is in the truck, we get the headers and everything on them doesn't match. the flywheel because the

block

is messed up somehow, so we'll fight to get this off, you know, the hard way and then we'll put a shim in later, so I'm definitely going to save those shims, foreign boy, this is a ratchet very high quality, that's right, yes.

That's it, yeah, yeah, click, click, okay, perfect starters with torque, then it fits very well. I mean, you can't slide a piece of paper between there and the box. Good adjustment, now I want to finish the valve adjustment, we are not going to worry about you. We don't know the flexplate here yet until we can get it off the engine mount and get ready to mount it to the transmission. I have to use TCI from Independence and I quickly brought one with double perforation and we will take a look at both and see which one we want to use better.

I try to eliminate the use of shims or use as few shims as possible when it comes down to it, now on the valvetrain here we've already done all the homework measuring our boost. rods that are about to finish bathing here, so all we have to do now is just drop all of our push rods in, put our rockers in and we're going to adjust them for zero tabs. I'm going to show you guys. how to do that here in just a minute and works with any hydraulic lift on any engine in the universe. I don't know, pretend there was a lot of echo on that or something, I'm not sure.

Super, super simple, first I'm going to pull. Take these out of the Hefty to dry, blow air down the center of them, make sure there is no depression. I'm also going to air dry the Rockers here that have been taking a bath for a while, make sure they are very, very clean. Well, I wonder what Tracy Lawrence is doing today. It was right at the end. You know, here's a very good example. New push rod. Many things. They each bathed and cleaned themselves, but I'm not done yet. I'm also going. taking and passing air through the passage in each one and just making sure they're nice and clear, so again on the push rods here, all the hard work was done in the first part, which was accurately measuring the length of our push rod so we got a perfect balance.

Arm geometry. I have ordered them and here and again it will be specific to your build depending on your heads and the installed height of your valve and the lift of your cam. You already know it. I don't know what it's for. For me, it's 8 and 8.8, so I'm going to go over here and let them drop longer, it's going to be my escape side, which seems like that's all I took for some reason, for some reason I have the I'm sure there's a reason I'm turning them over and I just want all the letters that show the size and model number of the pushrod to go in the same direction because that's what my brain is telling me, that It's what we have, we're doing it, the pushrods are on oh. that looks nice and good here for the Rockers now I already cleaned them once and you saw me throw it in there and give them a bath and I brought them here look at this look at all that dirt there's a piece of grass or something I mean they can look clean , but don't rely on that, clean them, we'll air bath them and after

installing

them or lubricate them, but for now I just need to put them on. all the rocker bolts to get them in place yeah okay sure you bet thanks buddy I appreciate it so I'm grabbing some lube for the trim valve train assembly and backing up real quick and hitting the tips on the rocker side and then inward.

In the valley here I just spray the rod and it will run into the spring cup there pretty good, this is just for lubrication during the valve lash adjustment and then also the initial shot, but hopefully we're going to turn this around without Al fire initially, build up some oil pressure first and then we'll let it sing now before putting on the Polylocks. I'm going to go ahead and tip the valve stem and bolt here just a little bit of juice when I get all of those. I have everything ready. I'll go back and soak the Rockers pretty good with this before we put the valve covers back on, just some extra insurance and protection for that initial fire.

Now we're ready to set up the valve set and I have a The full video for this is in the playlist, but I'll cover it real quick here. Valve lash, which is the space at the end here between the tip of the roller and the tip of the valve stem. Here you see a lot of people dragging runners and similar moorings. them with a specific gap here if needed now we are using a hydraulic roller for these lifts to be pumped there is a small hydraulic system on this lift it is a roller nose hydraulic lift so there is a cushion essentially these just need to be set to zero , so all we're trying to do is set them to zero tabs or no gap and it's very easy to do if I were to loosen this poly, see how I can move this that's not zero, that's positive, all I have to do is squeezing this down still moves it up and down, it's not there now when I squeeze it and I can't move it up and down anymore and I feel slight resistance which means I can still turn this all the way but I can feel pressure . between here and here, if I go too far, look, this is very stiff, very hard to turn, that means we're most likely in the negative, we're putting too much pressure on our valve over here, so we're going backwards. turn it off a little bit this here is zero lash initially that's all we need to do on this entire engine set all of this to zero lash now this is a different technique that I'm about to explain some people will tell you that you have to do a cylinder a at a time and you have to make one valve for one cylinder at a time, yes, that is one hundred percent the most engineering way to do it in the world.

It's in subsection six of the Geneva Convention, but listen, not everyone understands their engines intimately and understands the opening and closing of valves and what the firing order is and which cylinder comes next and all of this the way they do it. I do it's foolproof it's for dummies like me it works every time it's fast it's simple and accurate Okay, here's how we're going to do this the way I like to do it, it doesn't require you to

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know what engine you're working on, literally, it's that foolproof if you look and say it's a hydraulic system or a hydraulic system. lifter you can do it with this method it doesn't matter if it's a Hyundai or a Suzuki or a Mercedes or a Ford or a Chevy or a Mopar whatever it is you don't even know what this is happening it's going to work for you It's okay, you don't need to know where you're in firing order or anything like that, or what valve is doing anything, you can literally stop, walk away, have a sandwich, have a cold snack, come back and just jump back in, which is why you know, you'd rather this method.

All we're going to do is set all of these to zero lash. Okay, we just talked about it and these are all at zero lash right now, which means The Rocker isn't moving. We have taken everything. the cushion there I'm going to take my wrench on the cranks now that we're at 12. I'm going to turn that over a quarter turn right there I'm going to go back in this one is loose oh don't panic just put it back on zero, go up to here again, exactly the same thing, see how much dirt we have there, zero it up to here, real quick, like now we're going to do this process a few times. here we go some of these are really tight because it's at the top of the cam lobe it's actually opening a valve that's okay another quarter turn so we're halfway through our rotation right now okay , let's do this two complete.

Rotations so that fourth room quarter quarter quarter quarter fourth establish all this at zero and by then you will have safely adjusted them whenever it is at the base or at the bottom of the lobe of the cam, has caught it twice and should have it made. I made sure it didn't have eyelashes. It's very simple. You can see it well. This one just fell to the base. I caught that one if they are too tight. Leave them like this. Do not remove them if they are tight. You're just worried. about the loose ones, okay, so we have our first full rotation, nothing loose, a little bit, that one is in a lobe, in a lobe, okay, we're going to do our second turn now, juststill looks good, very simple, let me finish.

I have three more quarters left to make sure you can roll them between your fingers nice and easy. You might start to feel resistance. There is no up and down movement. You have to be careful because you can press the spring cup on your lifter if you put on too much. aggressive here you gotta go nice and slow okay and then I'll come back and show you how to set the preload boom valve train ready oh I've got mine all dialed in here I'm going to address a question I have here. A lot of questions in the old video are does it matter if my engine has been running and then you know they want to tune it after it's already running?

No, you could do it just with the valve covers removed. Here you can rotate a small block. Whatever you want if you want to try to adjust it, just remember that if you are adjusting a rocker arm quite significantly to quiet the engine, you have bigger problems, you have a cleaning cam lobe or a chattering lifter or something else, you are putting a A band-aid for the real situation, so remember that if you have an engine with that stock that has been running for a while and you find yourself adjusting the batch of Rockers or one or two individual cylinders or whatever, it may be time to break it down.

Well anyway, we have zero play so now what we need to add preload now most of the time with any hydraulic lifter is a half to three quarter turn of your lock or nut right now, every manufacturer is different, so you must decide. What you should do regarding preload. Also, some manufacturers will give you the exact hundreds or thousands or whatever you need to preload. You already know that depending on the geometry of our rocker arm and the bolt, how much you're applying. per lap so you can do the math there, so I run the polyblock to where it stops.

I'm going back. I'm going to take my key. I'm going to add half. I'm going to adjust this. I'm going to bring my key back. Look, I'm at noon. Here we will call it. I'm going to bring her back. Make sure the lock is closed and then tighten it, so basically what I do. What I'm doing is backing off the polylock enough until when I tighten it with my wrench I'm jamming both of them, so we'll look at that again here, that one is nice and closed, I walked down and it bottomed out, so I'm going to back this off a little bit half a turn, there's half that's where it's touching, so I'm going to go back, call it a quarter turn, no, too much, so I might go back.

I need to be back at noon right there. now they make dial gauges, you can set up a platform here, there's a dial, there's an arm located on the top of the valve here, basically the retainer and when you're adjusting this, you can look at that needle, so when you tighten them, If you are accidentally putting extra preload on your valve, it will tell you so you can remove this from the hydraulic system. I bought it, you know what I mean, but if you're using a solid lift, it's absolutely critical that you're doing it right. amount of preload and I could probably go ahead and invest in that cheap little gauge there are switch keys that make it a little easier for me now remember it doesn't matter if these valves are up down whatever it is we're just adding the same amount of preload to each one consistently half a turn goes to my lock, taps it back, adds a little lock and then when I pull it back to lock, you know, do the lock on that half turn, the side is well done , that is, the valve crane is complete. sounds great, moves great, everything is enclosed by the way I cut the filter, looks great.

I'll show you, of course, you know I'm using a Wix. Missed a 424 oil change last year. This looked great. You can see how they're all folded, that's because I was opening all of these up to make sure there were no problems and there were no metal flakes, there was nothing there, it caught a lot of the breasts randomly, like what is that, a piece of grass or some paint, that's why it's so important to use a good filter, you'll get your money's worth. The Fellers guy is going to go ahead and drain the Earl, which is probably full of ethanol, no, it's not actually broken, you know, I'm going to have to put it in. a piece of duct tape on the valve covers there's no oil in this bad boy, well that's not good, what the hell in the world why is there so much water in this?

Oh, um, that's a huge mix-up, we must have lost a head gasket. to have the holy Smokehouse, well, let's go ahead and replace the head gaskets. I already checked, that's good, what a nightmare it was, that explains that some number three water here had to have been a head gasket, but I didn't see in the gasket itself. what was going on, but I'm seeing it with my own eyes, pretty sure it just happened, yeah, cool, that's cool, that was unexpected. Some of you are probably thinking about how an engine is stored and you don't know it has water in it.

Listen to everything around you. Going 700 miles an hour non-stop is no friend, so a lot of times, I mean, it's seven days a week, we just don't have time to dig deeper or investigate things. Now remember we ran this on a Dyno and I thought it was pushing water but I was informed it's probably just ethanol and I think unfortunately we ran it anyway and that's when we bent the valve so good news bad news just It has about three minutes of operation. Bad news. it was at 6000 RPM great so let's go ahead and turn this thing over, take out the pan, do a full inspection, all that water should have been in the pound so the crank and the rods and all those bearings shouldn't have done it. it's been submerged, but let's make sure and while we're there, remove cap number six, which is the piston that was kissed there, and make sure everything looks good there and then we'll put it back together like we did.

I don't see any metal or a ton of metal there it goes now there it goes it's going around we should be healthy but let's make sure before we go to all the effort to put this hello coming in I'm fine let's see what we have cooking here foreign shake nothing at all it's no use so far , let's take a quick look. I mean, just by glancing I could see a cross hatch on the lower skirts of the piston. It looks great, nothing out of the ordinary. I could see on my scoreboard here still fine. Let me bring you here I guess it would be easier, that's why I thought, that's why I said it, at least we're on the same page as far as fans are concerned, you've been around the block, if you remember.

Putting this together on my B red points for Berry red points on the main caps that means they were warped you still see them here everything looks great and look at the bottom of the piston skirt we can turn this around a little and see things. but it looks fantastic, we'll clean this all up, just the usual water explosion, oh I forgot to put it in gear. Drive here pretty smart on these older blocks, you don't get that lean chain so your timing is more precise with the gear. established there, I'll probably start using a little bit of WD-40 or other lubricants as a cleaning agent and start spraying a little bit of this sticky substance which, unfortunately, will run down onto the cam and then we'll just re-lube the camshaft with a bit.

Slick 50 or something like that or even that Comp Cams lube before we go ahead and let it sit for a couple more days before shooting, but come on, we want to look at this particular guy. Let's take it to the top. Check it out and see how it goes. The crank looks absolutely new. The bearing cover is not bad at all. A couple of small bear slits there, but nothing to be alarmed about. There's a little bit of breasts there. At one point, place a small Mark. there, but it looks like a very, very healthy engine on the bottom end, so we'll button it back up, continue cleaning and turn it over after we put the pan on and we'll be ready to get the intake and transmission back together to reduce the torque for the way you want to talk about this gasket real quick, if you can splurge and spend the extra 12 15 dollars, do yourself a big favor and get these gaskets in one piece, then you won't have to deal with the rubber on the front that gets find the cork in the corners because they always leak right here, no matter how much you try to avoid it, eventually it's just oil leaks everywhere or back here and it's going to get creepy and you're going to think it's a back main or something like that, okay, let's get on with it. put it back, screw it tight.

I have everything as clean as possible. The truth continued. I hadn't been told that we were going to have to run this for a couple of minutes and then drop it back in, let it rinse naturally, but that's it. That being said, I cleaned everything, cleaned as best I could, cleaned the oil pump, got the pan looking and the hatch opened, cleaned everything, so we should be ready for Reon assembly. I had the bolts here in a paint tray that we used earlier sitting in a cleaner to get everything nice and clean. Hello, my name is Derek.

I'm a Class 7 out of eight hoarder, not sure if any scale only goes up to eight, but let's get to the valve covers anyway. to reuse them, yes, some of you remember these came on the flat engine that is now currently in Independence, but we had clearance issues with what it was, the brake booster or the Rocker girdle. I don't remember in any way or who. They didn't fit but they seem to fit now, this is a problem we have heard that it is not flat. I'll try this one, this one is banging, it's the vent deflector the way I modified this one, no, why? that one works hmm I bet it would work this way but the bolt holes wouldn't work well enough that's a problem so now what do we do?

I don't know. I'm thinking right now, okay, it just happened hmm, that's a big hole, oh, that's interfering too, if I just get it out of there, we'll still be I don't want to dump oil, what I really need to do is get some of that racing motion. It works with elbows here as long as you go to MPT but a guy just can't weld very well, let me figure this out. Bentley is here helping. I think I have a solution for this here. It's going to look really silly and it's not good, but it's free, so yeah, let's do it. we have to clean this we have it we are cleaning we have to clean this baffle and what I have in stock are these spacers and on top of that I have some rubber gaskets that we will use down there and We will use the good double layer cork ones down here so that those spacers Come in like this, another meeting, ready, we have everything taken care of.

Now it doesn't look good, you know, an extra large, extra large block, but it will save us money and We're using what's in stock, which is more important to me, overlooked because I already looked at this Frankenstein thing, so we're going to turn this over once we have it on, we're going to turn it over and make sure we don't have authorization. problems, he is preconfiguring all the hardware for me, so what we have to do is just leave everything here. I have a little bit of burr here. I'm going to remove this lip, it won't let me slide down, maybe that's it. one just nothing major and just clean them up just to tickle me so my joints and everything fit here try this size oh I think that did something that started yeah good job oh we got hit in the foreign bottom I wasn't paying attention when we stick around the hair, sweet, you want to do the other one, get it ready and then I'll let you take the tape off, okay, I think she's lined up, okay, trade, you've got that one perfect.

Teamwork. It makes labor more expensive and increases. your responsibility, good job again, okay, this little scoundrel here has to take them there now. I wonder if you keep all that for me, if a guy tried to sneak this one, okay, we could spin that, so can a guy, I think so. Alright. Good job, you want to start peeling the tape from the other side, that painter's tape has been there for probably two years so good luck, it will probably stay stuck forever. Is he getting out of it? Wow, is it still glowing under this? Is that aluminum security?

It's French or something that looks good. Seems out of place now, though doesn't it? Yes. I guess the AFR heads are pretty shiny, but I can't believe the tape is coming off. It's pretty incredible. Well, I have an oil. fill the pan in the engine there I have everything sorted, you will have to do it for now, now the transmission did not show today, hopefully tomorrow, but God has a you know, keep your feet moving, there is a lot of work to do, so come on. to move on to the batteries, yes, plural batteries, we're going to use two of them and a whole system here again.

I mentioned that we are not going to use any belts on this engine at all, zero, not one, never again, good. Well, now to do that it's going to take quite a bit of time to set it up here. We're going to have a pretty big digital fan. Havethe Holley Terminator X. We have the screens. We have a digital fuel pump etc.. and so on so I went out and bought these. I don't know, over power batteries, whatever it is, it's a deep cycle and a 3300 amp cranking battery, 1150 cold cranking amps, most importantly it has a 160 minute run time on this puppy that we're going to have.

Running two of them, I'm also going to put a battery switch here so we can select one battery, the second, or both, so we'll most likely use one to start once we get into the pit. We'll flip both batteries and it'll easily give us three minutes, as long as the digital fan doesn't wreak havoc on the system. Now, speaking of systems, we have this brain box that we are going to place. This is going to plug. directly into the batteries at that time we will have the screen mounted somewhere in the cabin and this will tell us where we are.

It's basically a super fancy voltage indicator, but it also has charging states, shows default values, and stuff like. which was via a charger or spend a couple more dollars and get this nice kit on board. What I mean by on board is this will stay on the truck and it actually has a wire, this wire will be on the truck, the truck will have a plug in, okay, okay, now it's an electric vehicle, that's what I'm saying, so when we're not running it, all we have to do is hook up the generator to the truck, which will evenly charge both batteries, which are 16 volts by the way, so we're ready to rock, so first thing we What we need to do is figure out where we're going to place these batteries and then we need to decide where we're going to mount this.

I was initially thinking the bottom of the truck somewhere like that angled part, but we could go ahead and put it in the cab. to protect it from the weather, you know, if it's somehow running down, maybe it won't escape. I don't know, we'll probably have to cover the entire truck with a tarp from Walmart anyway, but let's figure it out quick, we'll put this up. Let's put aside the shelves for a second, all these ads from guys who don't know how to use them or how they work, let's go back to where we put them.

It's actually cool to see how far burnout competitions have come in the US in just two years. if that and it's just changing and evolving so quickly, in fact I know a couple of people right now that are building vehicles that have independences, basically, mirror setup, the exact same fuel system and everything that's block Chevy big, whatever, because they have seen the results. and how it works and things like that and that's very good for them, but we're going to change things here because what I did had a very expensive learning journey, you know, we'll call it, let's stop doing that right, one of the things like The ones I've been repeating is that there are no more belts, okay, yes, we don't have forced induction, but we don't need a thousand horsepower to burn, the other thing is things like batteries, electricity and fuel.

Okay, so the reason I mentioned fuel is because we have to start planting it here right now. You'll notice I cut out the fuel cell because I'm most likely going to make a mid-mount or front-mount fuel tank. Yes, I said it because what we have been fighting is the fuel slosh the fuel slosh creates hunger in the countryside feel that hunger creates lean engines kaboom while it hurts sad moment, well we can stop him from riding it in the middle or in the front because when you slide in a circle the G forces are significantly less towards the pivot point, which is the front tire, so as an example, we have a fuel cell back here that is full of all the G forces.

If we put a fuel cell in here, that would be a third or less. In reality there are almost no g forces, you feel what you feel actually less than what you feel in the driver's seat. Plus, we don't need a giant capacity. We're going to use a very small fuel cell in this to make sure. that thing is complete, all we need is enough to do Run, make sure the pump is completely submerged and has no g forces, now on the battery lines, we want it as close to our computer as possible, no No I want a nest of spider wires.

I don't want cables that reach the trunk. Longer lines create impedance. Then you have things called amps, consumption, watts and things that don't like long distances. from a garden hose, so I'm thinking about putting the batteries in the middle as well with all the electronics and the fuel and everything basically in this passenger module. I'm going to try to use this area for all of our equipment and then everything goes straight to the engine or controls right next to me, nothing goes in the back and it's also noticeably much safer. I didn't like having tires with 20 gallons of x98 in the trunk, it's like Wiley's eye coal, whatever that cartoon is or he's riding the bomb, you know what I mean, let's not do that too the batteries in the trunk.

Rubber and tire shredding that can tear out all your cables. There goes your battery, there goes your energy, there goes the computer that you can't handle, no. You don't finish your own place, so one of the best places for all of that, like I said again, is going to be here in this area. I'll show you what I'm thinking, so I'm thinking in this area. I have two driveshaft loops, technically all three of us have the actual driveshaft loop, we have the mount on the floor, we have this on the roll cage and we also have that belt, so if this driveshaft goes off, I I'm not too worried about running out of batteries or fuel, for example, I'm thinking about putting fuel here or maybe right here so it has more support here.

There's no reason we should slide into a k member or a concrete barrier fast enough to collapse this and If we're what's going on in the world, you know what I mean, it should be pretty safe now. I originally thought about putting the batteries right here, but I really like the idea of ​​fuel, probably right here and maybe we'll figure it out. Full of fuel here, uh, but that means I have to put the batteries on board. I'll show you what I'm thinking. My brain tells me something like this. They will have a lot of support.

They will have tons. of protection, all the wiring and everything, pretty sure, the Terminator will go through there on the inside, as well as the battery controller which will probably be the battery change switch, will go down the bottom, so it will be outside the Very well organized, if we ever need to give it a good service, it won't be difficult to remove this panel or just drag it underneath, it should never need to be serviced, you know, as long as we keep charging it slowly and all that, we can have that cable. tied right here, I can make a nice little outlet, no, that's never going to happen, so we'll tie that wire right here and zip tie it, the generator load is done, so I think that's going to go ahead and be the plan that I have.

I'm actually going to weld them up, so a guy just installed them here and just ran a marker over and then I'm going to drop them in, put the flapper disk on the death wheel and clean this up a little bit, clean up the edges and then we'll burn them quickly. I have some miscellaneous junk somehow or some kind of old tie down and I don't know what this is, a tab of some kind, that's better now that we get to the room we need, we're not. 90s flap records perfect foreigner it's crazy how when I do this I only see baby spiders scattered everywhere that's okay lava personal these in real quick cross this off the list that would be good it should be good enough for the girls who Today's date something like that might have been a little testy, okay the guy can't move forward very well he made the top of Ground Control foreign in the mud, I've never seen an operation like that running here, what's that imp like fussy?

It's not pretty, but it's good enough for the girls we date. I'll tell you right now. Damn, I don't work very well, it's not going anywhere now, it's like I can get this fuel line out of here real quick and I'm going to spray some paint over the welds and on your rod so it doesn't start rusting right away. Let's wait a couple of days before it starts and we could go ahead and put the batteries in there. Mazel, they just are. lying on the floor, then we can move on to the fuel battery boxes, yes, so we can slide them here and down or easily over there and both sides and again the serviceability, well, let's hope it's not necessary, but who are we kidding?

We never had good batteries and you've probably noticed that I redid the entire roll cage on the side, just bent it, a bunch of new pipes jammed it up and by that I just mean this is the most oversprayed paint job I think I own. ever used in my life warning warning it's pretty bad actually move on to fuel let's figure out fuel once again we're trying to save money so let's use what we already have nothing back here is cheap at all tell you that right now this big tank goes, let's try to use this guy, this big tank pumps here the excess pumps out and into this tank, otherwise this pump pumps it over here to the car and then back through this, which is the ethanol meter and all that confusing stuff, so simplicity no, just yeah, so I'm going to unscrew this thing and it's got flanges on both sides, let's try to use them and see if we can figure out where to screw them. this on the deck that makes sense that it leaves this space for the plumbing as well to fill it and it's safe and secure, it's definitely going to be a lot safer than tire fires right there, I don't know, a couple of tires blew up there, I don't know.

I know if you can see where, but there's a lot of breasts and flames and whatever shooting back here and it was an uncomfortable feeling, so let's fix that and let's fix the G-force problem. Well, this is the tank. fuel out of independence, this is the amount that went through the trunk floor here, so we're thinking two and a half gallons, here you have this big aeromotive pump and there should be enough fuel, but what I'm thinking is that If a guy did something like this right here, it would be nice and protected here. It's a medium support, actually more forward.

Mount the seats back there so they don't rock and move around the The return line and the vent line come out the back so we can run a vent, you know, up here, the filler neck. I plan to take it up here and then the power line, we can go around this bar around there, I'm probably going to have a relay hmm somewhere maybe even a panel right here or something, a small panel with a relay or maybe I could put it here that it will be for fuel and fan and things like that so that all the digital ones start seeing it. put the battery together, we're going to have to have a ground block or something here.

I could put it in this bar and that's where everything or maybe all of that shows up here or something like that. I just finished planning that. but we need to have a place to take all of our negatives, a place to take all of our positives that are going to be changed and then also the relay, maybe make a nifty little panel that can be installed right here and just mounting everything on that would be quite well now a guy needs to make a bracket or a bracket of some kind to hold this in the vehicle securely and we're going to do that with the table here, the quick cut now I could spend an hour in turbocad figuring all this out, but in I'm going to use paper CAD instead, so you know, the original CAD cardboard assisted design made my template put it here on my roll, this is what happens. and this is going to be a curve and I'm basically using this to t

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that shape and I throw it right into the computer machine, it's very simple to use, it's actually quite fun, so if I go, I want a line and Let's start here stop here here there start in the Box we need one more go back here there we go I must have messed up here somehow I'll go back and fix that and I can even make these holes if I go in with my circle tool and just make three points here here there there and there we should have two circles right there and that's where we could put our bolts through, so let me clean this up so we can export it, pop it into our software and guys, loaded it basically what we're going to do is cut a hole.

I'm going to let the top cool so it doesn't warp, cut the center, cut the other hole again and then Lastly, we'll run around the outside here, now the foreign outline has that support here and basically that tank has two wings, so one will just sit here and then the other ones will screw on this side and then the brackets. I have these reinforcements cominghere and we'll weld this in every way so it's very, very solid, it's not going anywhere, let me finish welding this, we'll drop that tank and throw some hardware in here and we can cross fuel off the list overseas, this house is clearly Poltergeist from the 80s, something that maybe makes a great movie, well the fuel cell is bolted in here and it's solid, I mean, it moves the whole truck, so I think we're good here, moving on and cross this off the list now, here on the floor, the transmission appeared, so it's time for the Big Show, let's take the motor out of the base, we have to put a flex plate in there, we have to mount it to the transmission and then try to slide this thing here and screw it forever.

We also need to start massaging our headers to make them appear. There will be some clearance issues, but I think we could tickle it with the hammer. Do you know Tonya? Most likely Harding 200 and get it working fine. Here is this unit. It will basically be the same team that is in Independence and once again they knocked it out of the park. This thing is absolutely clean. I ordered a speedometer just in case. we want to track speed, it has a deep pan with a drain plug, all new hardware down there, it has a specific torque converter here with the bolts and all the dipsticks ready to go, we also have a transmission brake right on in case we want to get a little spicy, that's there in case we want to.

I don't know who knows what we're going to end up doing with something, you know, but it looks pretty cool. I'm going to put a flexible plate shield. here and a trans blanket just to be extra cautious and careful if this was a grenade I would go through that like a hot spoon through butter and I'm not kidding I'm a little biased on my legs. I mean they don't work very well, but I like them, you know, okay, so now let's connect this to the cherry picker, take it off the stand and then we'll put it on the ground, screw everything to this and I'll try to place it.

I already went ahead and ran this through the English wheel and by that I mean I just wiped the snot out of it with a little pain, but now it actually clears the mountain. Pay attention when you place these. on these pads, these mounting surfaces, when they come out like this, they go towards the transmission, some of them will even say "hey idiot", this side goes this way or this side goes out or this side faces the engine, make sure you do that correctlybecause when you're going to bolt on your torque converter you need these pads in the correct orientation to get the correct clearance between your flex plate and your torque converter, you're going to put that juice on it like I was saying, throw them in here, give them too many torques. then we can move on to screwing this in and I have to put a shield in there, so I have to take it out of the box.

I think it's actually all the bolts, so we may have to align the pegs. put the shield on and then smash it all together. This has been my favorite way to mate engines and transmissions for years, especially if you're a lone wolf like me, just set it up, you can pretty much line it up with the money and whatever you want. What I have to do is just have Boop slide this forward ready to rock now Harman wanted me to get a full metal shield and I agreed but we're going to find them they're out of stock until the end of the summer so we're going to give it a try.

Around this QuickTime thing, if that torque converter or flex plate scatters like sand, this will help make it SFI rated, so we'll cover it with a blanket. I had other points so I have to figure out how this will work. Gotta have to go magic with the dipstick tube, maybe even cut that Tang off and let this be the holder anyway, we'll make it work. One of the reasons I love Harman is that he's a straight shooter, you know, like me. so I'll call him and say Here's the plan with the transmission, you know, say well, what are you going to do with that thing?

What am I building well? 314 neutral drops a couple of rear changes in case of an accident. I'll probably leave. in reverse at 58 miles per hour and getting stuck in first gear a couple of times. I'm going to take off in third more times than I should basically everything you're not supposed to do with the transmission. I'm going to do that a lot. with a lot of horsepower and most people are, most builders would say oh you can't do that and here's why or whatever, it just goes well, this is what we're going to do to let that happen and man, he's been on the money so So far, I'm pretty confident in getting this unit together, let me put a hardware button on this thing and then we'll go ahead and start putting this in the car here on Wait a minute, either we call it a truck or it is.

It's a thief, I'm not too sure about everything, there really isn't a racing truck, it's always a racing car anyway, that's the plan, the shields seem to be protecting. I had to cut the Tang off of this, but the tube isn't going anywhere. I mean that's it, it's nice to have that extra protection, use grade 8 hardware all the way around. Another thing I did really quickly was go ahead and put in the oil pressure sensor. This is just a Holley pressure transducer. I will use fuel or oil with this specific part number and I use some of this instead of just regular paste because it resists gas and oil and fits tight there, hopefully I won't break it putting it in the truck and then I don't have to fight, You know, putting your hand in to achieve it.

I'm trying to do all the little things in advance. I'm going to wait on the blanket because we still need to connect our coolant lines and the shifter linkage and a bunch of other things. so we'll wait, we can always throw that out another time, but the next thing we need to do here before we stab this is to finish cleaning up all this Rat's Nest and mess because this is all going away. Remove all this wiring and make taps, fuses, relays and all that. I have to get some of Charlotte's web and relocate some of these spiders, but first I'm going to get that mess out of the way, so when we go to set.

On this, we're just fighting the headers and then once that's fixed we'll just start over with the digital ones and I've got some plans sitting here looking at this involving this space right here and I'm thinking. something again, listen to me a little bit later here because if a guy were to remove this panel, see what I'm saying, yeah, well, the guy has most of the cables and lines, miscellaneous things all along his output, now he just I have to deal. With these gauges up here and I could go ahead and start disassembling, this might not go all the way through, but we're not going to need a clutch, so we could get these things out of the way just trying to get a clean deck.

Again we're going to start over completely with the wiring, the oil pressure and the temperature are low and all the little frills and all that, this is all that's really left, but it's disconnected underneath, we'll just let it sit for now, ya we will take care of it. which later had other electronics here at some point or someone did, we may have our battery controller box up here, but that's probably it. I guess everything else I'm going to try to hide underneath, okay, bad knot on my to-do list here, but another thing I want to take care of is these mountains here, when we just set this up here, it looked like this track display support was going to be a problem, so I think I'm going to go ahead and take that torch, remove them at least this one here, we won't need to make any adjustments as far as the curvature from this point, in the future , this one is sure to roll, it's close enough, you know what?

I mean, let's go ahead and cut that out to try to get more space here. You can see that the difference between the mounting point and the suspension is quite significant. There were a few people that I mentioned in episode one or part one. of this build that sets up a big block doesn't fit and this truck period has no ifs ands or buts except listen I'm your blueberry okay here we go we've tested the big block fitment but not with the turbo 400 behind it, had different. The heads didn't have this tall valve cover, things have changed is what I'm saying, we also have the filter, starter things of that nature, so let's try putting it back on the truck again and screw it loosely and also I'll take a look at the lettering on the pipes, let's see what kind of nightmare we're going to have there, okay, fingers and toes crossed, boy, she's going to be swinging today with a lot more weight on her, going down about 17 miles Boy, it seems like we've installed a lot of motors recently, hasn't it?

I think so. I think the crossbar will have to be moved. It seems like maybe I should have left it out. Things are happening. Oh yeah, the crossbars aren't even remotely close. Hey, let me think here for a minute, so we need to measure the driveshaft, it still works fine, here we go. Fellers, they slid right in. These are Sanderson heads, no need to use gaskets on this. There is a unique patented flange design. apparently where you put this stuff in and that's it, and I can't tell you how much time I spent in Independence ruining my Knuckles, hours and hours and hours replacing them and I knew this was going to be difficult so we went with the Sanderson.

Mid length, that one looks perfect, tons of room down here, engine has to lean back a little, still need to massage this one a little more. I'm so close to 2 16 of an inch, in fact, if I lift the engine. up, I can most likely put that bolt in, but we're going to go ahead and just put the English wheel on it, okay, this is great news, I can leave it down here, we're going to go under the truck, get it. transmission mount use a pole Jack eyeball this so we can measure the outer driveshaft so this is what we have under the deck this was for a manual like I said it was most likely a four speed and this is a lot longer so basically all I have to do is just move this bar back and line it up, we may have to turn it around, drill some of our own holes or something, but for now I'm just going to put a pole, Jack, under here, take this. one uses a ruler and gets this drop down menu so we can get an accurate measurement for a driveshaft.

Everything you're going to have to change this end is fine but they're going to have to shorten it which is good news for us because they could just put the right hardware on one end and in theory we should be fine there are two bolts on this side and two on this side with the solder and the nut on top, that's it, yeah, I see this pad is not going to work or that bar. We could think of something else, although we'll bring this header down on the outside side, relax like we thought it was there, come on, oh, we're talking right.

I think I have it here. I put the bushing in that we need to keep the motor more level anyway about a tape measure on the top of this to the top of here as kind of a ruler that will get us pretty close and that took two measurements from the center from the universal joint to the output shaft seal and then I also marked it here for the driveshaft guys so now we can quickly look at it and get a driveshaft. The other thing that a guy was able to figure out here, you can see this is all back together because I need to take this to another shop to finish the rear end now it has a five over five bolt pattern.

I drilled them. These are from Packard for the half inch bolts and that seems to be working fine. Your drive gear axles are an Improved Axle, it has 28 splines, it's an old Detroit locker with the 373. I'm going to try to put a 323 on it, which is as low as I can go for that conveyor, then I have to switch to another complete conveyor and that Locker costs like eight nine hundred dollars, so we're going to try to save. I'm worried that Locker won't be of any use to us in case of exhaustion, we're just going to have to give it a try, you know, usually the first thing. "Pair as an independence, shake everything up, we'll find some weak points and some things we need to fix very well.

It could be this round. Now trikes are great lockers, but they're more so for racing, obviously." We're not meant to lock ourselves in and stay locked in doing donuts and figure eights and stuff like that, but we're going to have to give it a whirl, we're in a pretty big time crunch and again we're trying to save some money, so at this point , I'm going to throw the driveshaft in the truck, we're going to drop it off somewhere in Alabama, we're going to load the truck on a trailer, we're going to take it to Cookville and also, while I'm there, I'm going to have Chad volunteer at Muffler and Performance follow Go ahead and make the escape from this thing, which is another reason whyI really needed this mockup here as quickly as possible.

I want them to put a tube in this thing, so I'll get it. Back here in the workshop, we could focus on everything else that still needs to be done, but that's enough for this episode. We have a turbo 400 big block short track truck, it runs pretty good, thanks everyone for looking, we really appreciate it. I will see you very soon