Barely Functional Racing LS Swaps a Triumph TR4

You can also do pie cuts on all the tubes and bring tge collector in mpre of needed. The cheap ebay stainless welds nice with a standard mig.

In reply to Indy-Guy :

There is a lot of "guess and spend" in the header game.

I find Headman does this game the best, but not challenge friendly at about $350

Pete

Knurled. said:

In reply to AxeHealey :

Wind-idge, like the wind in the crankcase blowing around.  (If there's 5.3 liters of displacement on top of the pistons, there's 5.3 liters underneath them too, and they are blowing on the bowl of oil under the crank)

Thanks!

In reply to ​​​Dusterbd13-michael & NOHOME :

This car will start life as a Challenge competitor (think Roadkill Barely Functional style) and then be slowly refined over the years.  I'm open to flipping the manifolds upside down and running like the Hot Rod Garage 5.0 MG to start, and then post challenge buying a better solution.

In reply to Indy-Guy :

I am totally o board with the hatter pipes. Please go straight to this and ignore all that convoluted under- the -car routing.

NOHOME said:

In reply to Indy-Guy :

I am totally o board with the hatter pipes. Please go straight to this and ignore all that convoluted under- the -car routing.

Indy-kid #2 agrees with you 100%.  He loves that look and has been begging me to flip the headers upside down and run them that way.

In reply to Indy-Guy :

Take a splash mold of your stock hood. Then from that mold make a fiberglass hood.  Measure carefully around the pipes sticking up and hole saw a nice neat pair of holes. 

In reply to frenchyd :

Or spend all that time getting the actual swap done. 

Stampie said:

In reply to frenchyd :

Or spend all that time getting the actual swap done. 

This. Very much this.   I've watched way too many projects stall and never reach completion because builders attempt too much and make perfection the enemy of  good enough.  I don't want to be that guy. I won't be one who has AWESOME plans but never gets to the driving stage.

  My stretch goal is to have this up and driving to enjoy Hot Rod Power Tour in June 2020.  Then the Challenge in October

I'm out in the garage at the moment, but here's a teaser pic until I get done tonight and give a full write up:

In reply to Indy-Guy :

Looks perfect to mount twin turbos to.

In reply to Stampie :

Reminds me...NOW is the time to weld in the oil drainback bungs for those turbos. Cause ya never know!

Pete

Oh yeah!!!

The shoehorn is strong with this one. Also hoodless hater pipe has my vote.

Thanks for all the windage tray talk. I completely forgot about that on my 5.3.

In reply to NOHOME :

When you mount them out of the hood like that you just drain them back to the valve covers.

Phase one is definitely not getting turbos, sorry guys.  Maybe phase two, maybe.

I had help off and on today.  Engine in and out a few times:

This all had to get cut away, I was trying to avoid removing this because that's where the gas pedal is supposed go.

After some cutting...

Headers and the back of the heads  were hitting all over the place, plus no header on the driver's side yet

Engine out mark areas to cut some more:

Cut, cut, cut:

Let's try it again...

Indy-Guy said:

In reply to ​​​Dusterbd13-michael & NOHOME :

This car will start life as a Challenge competitor (think Roadkill Barely Functional style) and then be slowly refined over the years.  I'm open to flipping the manifolds upside down and running like the Hot Rod Garage 5.0 MG to start, and then post challenge buying a better solution.

Trying to catch up on thread, so this a little late. Zoomies, straight up zoomies. Don't bother with 4 into 1 or any crap like that.

I've got some more cutting to do, but was able to successfully get the engine in a position low enough to get the hood into position.

And bonus, my existing truck throttle is going to clear the hood!!!!!

Sits about an inch or so below the frame:

The headers are going to work with some modifications, either cut frame or move collector down:

Engine positioned behind the center line of the front wheels

And finally, this will make Patrick happy, I'll be able to use a stock cross member.

Nice work. 

In reply to Indy-Guy :

Awesome job! I’m looking forward to New Years burnouts!!!

Seriously tight even after the clearance cuts. I really admire the persistence it takes to do this.

Dang that's tight. I see a lot of tin work in your future.

Mid-engine, V8, TR4. 

Yeah. 

That's the stock crossmember?  It looks like something I would have welded up in highschool shop class [this is not a compliment].