Very nice, I kind of figured he had to be an ace with tuning for you to go with him. Guess his company's name says it all. Wish I was not so far removed from you, would love to have him tune mine too. But perhaps I need to be tuned for my 5k ft altitude. I'm jealous Kevin will be working his magic on your Monte SS..

 

Updated pics

The wood in the back is the new sub floor that will house the battery and and ride stuff. The 3" charge pipe is a close fit past the alternator but it fits the pic from under the car is showing the new 4 gauge starter wire is all.

 

I watch everyday hoping youll update this... Sooo awesome how they got the Holden intake in there.

 

I try updating this as soon as the shop gives me one. They also just sent me pics of the new mounting bracket thetly made for the meth pump. Glad to hear I have your interest with this build

 

Man that's exciting!!

 

Very very nice John. Look at your one of a kind TurboMonte becoming even more special. That is so rad the direction you have chosen to take your build. Going to be one sic puppy. Smart use of the space at the backseat passengers area.

Where will your W/M pump be mounted? Sweet custom bracket for it. I will have a Cooling Mist pump if you should want it as a spare.

Why the 4 gauge starter wire?

LOL, they did just barely clear your alternator. That had to be sketchy shaping it to such a tight clearance. NICE!!

 

Not sure on mounting location of the w/m pump yet. How much you want for yours for a spare for me? They wanted 4 gauge to make sure all wiring was above and beyond what would be needed. Yea it's VERY close. Im sure all this piping is gonna be very close though with how big the diameter of all the piping is.

 

It does seem you have the right shop handing certain aspects of the build, nice foresight to use the 4 gauge wire then. I can't imagine what this build will do, kind of fun to let the imagination run wild thinking about the possibilities.

Supposed to get my Monte back next week, but I'm not holding my breath since the tranny hiccup probably caused the normal unforeseen delay.

The Cooling Mist pump is yours. When I get it back with the car I will mail it to you, you can PM me the mailing address. It has never had a problem, I think I have only went through about 2 gallons of meth the whole time I have had it, so it is a pretty low hour pump, not garbage by any means. Trying to mount the Holley W/M pump in the cubby of the Cooling Mist trunk mounted reservoir tank, looks like it will fit.

Keep it up Turbo Monte, going to have yourself the most wicked 6th gen out there. Also I was told the thrust washers that got chewed up, we now have some made from steel to handle to power transfer. Sams 875 whp Monte keep eating them, so he had some special steel ones fabricated and Matt has some extras so that is what is going in my rebuild. Thought you might like to know in case you ever need one, unless you already have that from TEP.

Keep on boosting...

 

Awesome, I'll send you a pm with address. Thanks sir! Glad to know yours is about complete. Im still far from close and getting very frustrated. I kinda got mouthy with them Wednesday so we will see what happens now. Anyway.... This is the meth pump location and start of crossover fabrication.

 

Nice they have that small detail like the W/M pumps location already factored in. You need every bit of real estate in the engine bay for the necessities, jheesh the new and improved Turbo Monte will be over the top crazy and wild. Going to be so much fun for you, all your GP buds will just have to hold on to their hats when you rocket on by them...

What are the yellow tube items pictured?

Those manifold pipes are huge, 3"?

Remember my Las Vegas build? Took them 13 months and it was always an excuse about something. You are the customer and if you just chill and go with the flow the fire on their side tends to go out. It is a fine dance you dance with out them melting down, but you control the money and I bet this is not cheap by any means. So they want you to be happy to sign the final check and get the car gone and out of the shop to free up another bay. Get em Big John...