Project Geosynchronous Orbit

[cmelo]

Your cage looks nice, but let's be honest. Once you put in a 440, it will not save you. Either way watching you race sometime this year will be sweet.

R.I.P.
Colin "The MoparManiac" Pelligrino
1987-2013
"You died a radical death"

 

[Dundy]

Your cage looks nice, but let's be honest. Once you put in a 440, it will not save you. Either way watching you race sometime this year will be sweet.

R.I.P.
Colin "The MoparManiac" Pelligrino
1987-2013
"You died a radical death"

Who's Colin Pelligrino?

 

[MoparManiac]

No idea

 

[cmelo]

Who's Colin Pelligrino?

Close enough

 

[chedisme]

cant wait to see this in person!

 

[fasteddieyj]

Cage looks real slick. I really like how you integrated it into the bedsides.

 

[billyjp2]

STRAIGHT CASH HOMIE

 

[Begster]

cant wait to see this in person!

Eh, don't get your hopes up, it's pretty lame in person.



Oh, and Colin, I farted in one of your seats again Saturday night.

 

[ktm racer 419]

Oh, and Colin, I farted in one of your seats again Saturday night.

salad farts

 

[MoparManiac]

They smelled like gay.

It was worse than a hetero fart after eating mexican food and slamming beer.

 

[kastein]

gayer than farting on a dick

 

[darksidemj]

This thing is awesome! One of my favorite MJ builds. I will continue to follow this one.

 

[MoparManiac]

This thing is awesome! One of my favorite MJ builds. I will continue to follow this one.

Thanks dude. Believe me when I say it's going to start getting good now.

Stripped a ton of shit in preparation for the new drivetrain.

Figured I'd start with a pic of the lower X bars on the cage and where they meet up with the harness bar.

Pile of shit I removed.

Axle at full bump.

Empty engine bay.

Empty interior.

The only thing left to finish on the 440 is to get the heads worked (my uncle is port/polishing them). So that should get wrapped up in the next 2-3 weeks.

Next weekend I'll get one of the other assembled/used 440s stuffed into the engine bay along with some block hugger headers to see what I have to work with.

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

Next weekend I'll get one of the other assembled/used 440s stuffed into the engine bay along with some zoomies to see what I have to work with.

AWSOME! can i come watch? shits pretty epic

 

[foxwar71]

Glad I got the first part outta there and to better use before you went crazy on that thing. Did you still want some of that large diameter tubing you talked about possibly using?

AWSOME! can i come watch? shits pretty epic

I see what you did there :thumbup:

 

[MoparManiac]

AWSOME! can i come watch? shits pretty epic

Sure. Though no zoomies. I want to be able to breathe while I'm driving :laugh:

Glad I got the first part outta there and to better use before you went crazy on that thing. Did you still want some of that large diameter tubing you talked about possibly using?

Yeah that radiator wouldn't cool half of this engine haha.

Not sure about the DOM yet. I probably would like some of it, but I won't know until after this coming weekend.

 

[chedisme]

you gonna keep the rad up front? or put it in the bed? oh! or maybe under you seat for seat warmers!!! its gonna get cold with no windshield.

 

[ktm racer 419]

run the coolant through the cage. heated cage dude. it would be amazing and melt all the snow off it in the winter.

 

[MoparManiac]

I have geniuses for friends.

 

[MoparManiac]

Mocked up a 440 with heads/block hugger headers/ rear sump pan.

Fits WAY better than I thought it would. Mild firewall fixing on the passenger side for the valve cover, some hood clearance issues (cowl hood or big scoop) and some bellhousing fixing on the firewall. And I have to move my orbital mount (no big deal).

Driver's side exhaust clearance

Passenger side

Firewall clearance

Steering shaft clearance

Angle to existing orbital mount. Probably move it to the inner fenderwell.

Bellhousing to firewall.

Pulley to winch.

And finally looking from the back. The Milodon rear sump I'm using will be a bit deeper than this.

Tomorrow I'll probably try to get the trans attached and t-cases to see what I have to work with.