70 Hemi Superbird Restoration..................errr.....scratch that........

[Ron 73]

Your work and ability is outstanding! I couldn't even imagine trying this.. Your welds look great...

 

[a68postcar]

now that's an oil pan. pretty work.

 

[HYRDGOON]

Yup!! Shame that oil pan will get hidden under the car! Gonna need some extra long wheelstands to show it off!! !

 

[Hemirunner]

Thanks Guys! Hopefully, no wheel stands for this car!

 

[HYRDGOON]

Of course!! I expect it will be hidden under a skid plate anyways! Really nice work it looks like a retail piece for sure!

 

[Hemirunner]

I've been busy with some other engine builds and have also been working on my tubing bender and my shop. I did manage to sneak in a little time on the oil pan. I welded in the three scavenge tubes and started to grind down all the welds and blend them in.

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I measured up and cut the rear baffle.....

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Then I notched it to clear the main studs and nuts....

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With the K-member and the pan together enough to do some fit checking, the last part of that fitment component was the headers. I ordered a cheap big block chevy header kit from Jegs, used a set of flanges that I had, and set out to build a set. My buddy made some transitions for me that matched the ports. I used those and started adding tubes.

Last tube.....

I like the way these ended up, even if they are just a tad too high in the chassis.

The last part was to weld on the collector. After that I added a 3-1/2" to 3" transition. We'll go from 3" directly into the turbo.

I had decided I'd better check the fit up on the whole mess so I bolted it all in the car.

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There's a ton of room between the pan and K-member and even more so between the header and the K-member. So much so, that I'm going to raise the K-member center piece an inch.

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The header clears the frame and also the lower control arm mount area on the K-member. Dodged that bullet!

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You can see all the room in this shot. Moving the center beam up an inch on the K-member really solves a lot of problems with rack mounting by bringing the rack into the same plane as the lower control arm pivot for minimum bump steer. It also gives me another inch of ground clearance.

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I trimmed off the header end and fitted a v-band flange on it. Then I put in the first elbow. This elbow goes through the gap shown above in front of the K-member and behind the radiator yoke. It fits so tight to the radiator yoke that I'll have to go with a shorter radiator to fit above the elbows. Not a big deal since I planned on running an aftermarket unit in the first place.

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This 90 degree elbow turns sideways out and will immediately connect to another 90 that turns up vertically. That one will go right into the bottom of the turbo and the waste gate will be on the outside of that elbow.

 

[HYRDGOON]

Really nice work again! I guess this means you also decided turbo placement after mulling a few ideas earlier?

 

[Hemirunner]

Thanks, and yes, I've decided the turbos will go under the fenders. There's plenty of room for them to be mounted in the panel where the headlights originally mounted on the coronet fenders. The cold side will be in front of that panel and the hot side will be behind it. This gives me plenty of room in front of them (under the nose) to run a long air filter on each for street driving. It also makes the cold side plumbing into the intercooolers really easy.

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An added benefit is that the area in there is a high pressure zone with the air coming off the chin spoiler and through the lower turn signal opening.

 

[Cypressbog]

Newby here checking in on an awesome build!

 

[Bigal75]

Any updates on the build?

 

[Hemirunner]

Any updates on the build?

I've been helping some buddies with other engine projects right now.

Also doing some rain gutter upgrades on the house from 2x3 to 3x4. A friend of mine helped me get my tubing bender up and running so now I need to get some chromoly on order.

I did get one of the intercooler pumps in so I can fabricate the water tanks.

The only other update I have is that my rear window plug is ready to ship from DonC in Canada!! I can't wait.

 

[Bigal75]

Slowly but surely! You're building your cage as well?

 

[benno440]

first time seeing this, awesome mate, cant wait to do mine in similar ways in a couple of years

 

[Hemirunner]

Slowly but surely! You're building your cage as well?

Yes, I will be doing the cage very similar to RVW's cage that his son is building. Mine will be to SFI25.3 spec.

 

[Hemirunner]

first time seeing this, awesome mate, cant wait to do mine in similar ways in a couple of years

Thanks benno, it sounds like you'll be building a monster!

 

[Coronet 14]

That is great work. I may have to visit you next year to do my engine

 

[Stevearino]

Crazy progress here Hemirunner. I gotta say I am exhausted just trying to keep up with this build. Keep diggin'.

 

[cdr]

hello Steve

 

[Stevearino]

hello Steve

Hey Charlie. This is some build that Hemirunner has going here. He is doing it at lightning speed too. Gonna be a monster.

 

[Hemirunner]

It's moving along, but they never move quick enough. If I didn't have to go to that pesky work every day it sure would give me more time to work on the car.... LOL