Hi guys and gals. I recently picked up a project car a few weeks ago in Auburn Hills Michigan.. and I mean a project. Its gonna be called "Project Rusty Silver Bullet" Its has alot of rust as you can see in the picts. The floors are pretty good and frame is very solid. Rockers, doors, etc.. not so much..lol Its hasn't lived a charmed life to say the least.
Anyway its a bone stock (Still has the cat converter on it, valve cover breather it still hooked up to the turbo inlet! Only mod is a dirty old k&n filter) 1987 Buick Regal Turbo T with 105k miles. Its silver with black out package with grey bucket seat interior.. Its a hardtop with the following options. Posi, power windows, locks, driver seat, rear defog, cruise, etc. Its pretty loaded up.
The story I was given was the car has sat outside and hasn't been started in the last 10 years! It was parked by the org owner and not driven due to a leaking gas tank and fuel line but was supposed to run. The tires are rotten, has no gas tank (it was removed and thrown out). I'm going to do a rapid build up on this car to show what it is I do with these cars regardless of condition or miles. I have done several builds like this in the past but never documented it publicly. I plan on running this car stock, then going 13's, 12's, 11's and then into the 10's by then end of the season. (hopefully in 3 months or less total as my work schedule, and customer turbo Buick work allows) I plan on doing it with all used parts from the boards and as cheap as possible.. just to show it can be done and using the bone stock short block.. maybe even the stock 100k mile cam! I plan on fully documenting the process step by step by videos and pictures.
Some vendors have already expressed interest in donating some parts if needed as have friends from the board who want to donate extra old parts for the "Bullet". Vince Janis of Janis Transmission has already offered to donate a Stage 1 built 2004r trans when it is needed. I am going to push the stock 100k trans as far as it can take us before making that switch.
I will have my 16 year old nephew helping me with this project and HE will be doing alot of the driving and local friend Brian Horsky (Turbo6Camaro) will be helping turn wrenches as his time allows and we both will also be doing alot of driving of the project as well. Looking forward to making big horsepower with this cars stock untouched org engine and showing what even an old worn out beat down LC2 231 Turbo V6 can still do! I will be making alot of updates to the thread in the coming days and weeks both here and on facebook. Thanks for reading and following
Anyway its a bone stock (Still has the cat converter on it, valve cover breather it still hooked up to the turbo inlet! Only mod is a dirty old k&n filter) 1987 Buick Regal Turbo T with 105k miles. Its silver with black out package with grey bucket seat interior.. Its a hardtop with the following options. Posi, power windows, locks, driver seat, rear defog, cruise, etc. Its pretty loaded up.
The story I was given was the car has sat outside and hasn't been started in the last 10 years! It was parked by the org owner and not driven due to a leaking gas tank and fuel line but was supposed to run. The tires are rotten, has no gas tank (it was removed and thrown out). I'm going to do a rapid build up on this car to show what it is I do with these cars regardless of condition or miles. I have done several builds like this in the past but never documented it publicly. I plan on running this car stock, then going 13's, 12's, 11's and then into the 10's by then end of the season. (hopefully in 3 months or less total as my work schedule, and customer turbo Buick work allows) I plan on doing it with all used parts from the boards and as cheap as possible.. just to show it can be done and using the bone stock short block.. maybe even the stock 100k mile cam! I plan on fully documenting the process step by step by videos and pictures.
Some vendors have already expressed interest in donating some parts if needed as have friends from the board who want to donate extra old parts for the "Bullet". Vince Janis of Janis Transmission has already offered to donate a Stage 1 built 2004r trans when it is needed. I am going to push the stock 100k trans as far as it can take us before making that switch.
I will have my 16 year old nephew helping me with this project and HE will be doing alot of the driving and local friend Brian Horsky (Turbo6Camaro) will be helping turn wrenches as his time allows and we both will also be doing alot of driving of the project as well. Looking forward to making big horsepower with this cars stock untouched org engine and showing what even an old worn out beat down LC2 231 Turbo V6 can still do! I will be making alot of updates to the thread in the coming days and weeks both here and on facebook. Thanks for reading and following