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lol eh, at that point I'd just drill a hole in the low spot like we used to do on our farm tractors. lol this old girl definitely won't be chasing hundredths of a second, and as difficult as it is to believe, EGT's in the exhaust manifolds dropped dramatically (100F or so) when I dumped the...

Ahh gotcha. No I won't be adjusting it. The goal was to get it as straight as possible, while still getting the relative side to side geometry that I needed. The issue is primarily around exhaust losses with the engine that's in it. The truck (donor vehicle) honestly could've used a 4" down pipe...

So the pictures are deceiving. The very last picture is where the car is sitting on the ground with the bags fully deflated. The pictures that are 3rd and 4th from the bottom are when the car is "standing" on air. When she's laying frame, the exhaust, trans pan, and oil pan have about 1/4" of...

Well it's been forever since I last posted, but the project is progressing, albeit slowly but surely. We just got out of a 15 month outage on one of my units, and we're headed into another outage for full turbine train overhaul here in a couple weeks. Hopefully I can give the old girl more...

Played a little bit more today and was able to start and complete the relay board that’ll allow the circuitry I built in the car to control the 7.3 ignition. It’s a lot bigger than the ignition switch from the truck, but after all was said and it bench tested as designed! Now just to fit it into...

Haha yup, sorry man. The sacrilege has officially begun (as if the diesel swap wasn’t enough). :lol:

So even though work has been nuts as of late, I took a week off in the midst of the chaos to volunteer for vacation bible school, and had the chance to tinker a little bit with the car. In my infinite wisdom :rolleyes:, I decided that I should go after modifying my hood to fit the 7.3 and...

Thank you much! It's been an interesting ride that's for sure. Right now work is absolutely insane, and sadly it'll likely be that way for several more months to come, so the brakes were put on the build pretty heavily for now.

Oh, gotcha. She definitely smells different, and actually you notice a difference in the exhaust smells when running Dino oil vs full synthetic (I think I just admitted to huffing my diesel exhaust a little too much lol). When I broke in the long block that’s now in the car, I broke it in on...

thank you much! It’s been a bunch of test fit and repeat, but it’s still a blast. It’s actually more fun than many of the custom crawlers that I’ve built with buddies because this one presents unique challenges that fit within an envelope that is the car itself. Tube chassis you just add steel...

And then finally, finally, here's the video of the very first start I put in the car. My little girl hadn't heard that engine run in over a year, so it was pretty special that she got to hear it run again, and that the old truck that she had ridden in since birth would be resurrected in the car...

Finally it came time to mount everything up, wire it, and plumb it. I only plumbed a coolant loop from the inlet and outlet of the water pump, purely because I haven't purchased my radiator for the car yet. There were a few other odds and ends things that needed to be taken care of before I put...

Now came the fun part of figuring out how to stuff all of the 7.3 electronics and wiring into the engine bay of the Monaco. More arts and crafts for a couple of mounting brackets, and I ended up building a bridge to mount the IDM to that would span over the bulkhead electrical connections to the...

Next came the very similar process of creating a new transmission tunnel to wrap around the E4OD. Once again, more arts and crafts (my mom would be so proud!), and then turning those arts and crafts into steel with a cutoff wheel, some body hammers and some metal putty. After that I started...

From there came the chore of actually stuffing the subframe with engine back into the car. There was a lot of cutting involved, and more arts and crafts, but effectively what happened was I recessed the firewall and cowl to accommodate the engine. Theoretically I could've moved the engine...

Finally getting around to posting pictures of my fab pics. Bear with me, it'll likely be several posts because there was a decent amount that happened within the months between my previous post/announcement and when I finally put a start in it in my previous video. So as is a common theme with...

lol thank you much. It's been a blast creating it. the excruciating part of it all is how slow it's going.

Many thanks! She's a labor of love, that's for sure. Part of the fun of being a machinist and fabricator prior to being an engineer is that the fab itch never goes away. And since I can't scratch that itch at work, what better way to do so than to build a family heirloom. This is true, weight...

Lol the short answer is sort of. Back when I had it built, I basically custom selected the strongest components within the first and second gens to create a more robust engine that could hold big power if I wanted it. The block is actually a 2000 block, but it’s got 97 forged internals, o-ringed...

Thank you much! Lucy ran like a top, and even the tow truck driver was surprised that she started in 10F weather when I went to get her off the rolldeck and into the driveway. That'll actually be one of the really cool parts about the car is that I'll have 7.3 reliability and strength in an old...