Well, after a long ass almost 7 years, I’m FINALLY going to start wrenching and bring the 'bird back to life. Project name felt fitting, other than she didn’t burn to the ground into a pile of ash before coming back to life.
This is going to be a relatively long-term build; as between school and work my time is limited to work on it. But now that I have it local, I can wrench as I get parts/$$/time and use it as an escape from the daily grind.
The plan is 3 phases.
Phase 1 - LS1 donor F-Body, get the motor/trans/ECU/Wiring Harness/anything else I need to do the swap; strip/sell/scrap the rest. Do the Suspension, Brakes, and Chassis during the LS Swap. This is targeted to be completed within the next 21 months (As this is when I’m done with school and maybe moving again)
Phase 2 - Procharger D1SC or F1 on the LS1 motor, low boost, A2W intercooler setup. (Learn FI as I’ve never dabbled in it before). (Time frame 24-48 months)
Phase 3 - LQ4/9 or LSX motor and more boost (Either Full pressure on a F1, go to a F2, or a pair of 72mm Turbos). (Time frame - ???)
Now, on to the pics!
Fresh out of the storage unit she’s been in since I moved from WNY.
She’s still spotless, zero rust, a few dings and scrapes from the years past, but you can still eat off the underside if you wanted to. Not bad for a 15 year old car.
Prepping/Prepped for Transport, 2000 miles. 2 Rolls of Hawk Blue Painters tape; tape sucked, I’ll get the real 3M stuff if I ever do this again without an enclosed trailer. I’d say 80% survived the trip.
Loaded the trailer and back of the truck up with all the “loose” parts and tools that my dad gave to me.
Thanks again to Luke_L for being one of if not THE best friend a guy could have. Being the 3rd driver on the way out, and driving back to NY with my dad 3 days later. Trip would have been 10x more miserable without him.
We left Rochester NY ~1:30pm on Sat, arrived in SLC at my place ~6:45 pm on Sunday Night.
Unloaded on Monday am, and piled everything into the garage, rolled the car into my 3rd bay (her home for the build). Had to get some obligatory pics of my little guy; 
And this weekend I started the sorting process. Crating up the LT1 motor and all the parts I’m not going to use. It’s a numbers matching car, 1 of only 473; so I figured it can’t hurt to store the numbers matching block/engine in such a way that it could be rebuilt in the future if I ever sell the car.
Got lots to sort through still. Got the motor crated up, just waiting for some desiccant packs to arrive to close up the crate.
And the bird in her bay in the garage; with the shop prepped for the build (Minus a welder which I still need to buy).
I’ll update with progress as I go, but it’ll be slow going due to life.
