He hit me up one day and said, "hey would you be interested in your station wagon again?"
and I was like yeah!
He said, well, it's got a rod hanging out of the oil pan, I said that's ok!
I work at Holley performance products, I am an exhaust design technician.
Me and the car have a pretty good history, I found this car at a fellow mechanic's shop.
He had it sitting out back, planned on making it a drag car, picked it up for a little bit
of nothing, put a small block in it, drove it for a while, come on some hard times, needed
to sell it, set it uptown for two or three weeks, no interest, no offers, and at that
time I had white walls and hubcaps.
My brother drove it to his side job at the drag strip in a little town we lived in Georgia,
Edentown Georgia, and everybody heard it and had a guy interested in it, but he just wanted
the drivetrain so I sold the drivetrain and got the car back for what I wanted for it,
it sat around engineless, drivetrain-less for, I don't know, probably over a year.
Put a small block together for it, just a stock one and drove it to Kentucky when we
moved here, had it a while and traded it for a Jeep Cherokee.
Was in touch with the guy a few times and he hit me up one day and said hey would you
be interested in your station wagon again?, and I was like yeah!
He said, well it's got a rod hanging out of the oil pan, I said that's ok!
I've got a little car I can trade you so traded him the car, pulled the engine out, debated
whether to build another small block and I had this 5.3 sitting on the floor so I decided
to go ahead and do the LS swap and bite the bullet.
It was good I thoroughly enjoy it so I'm glad I did.
4L60E transmission, right now I've got a big 241 highway gear in it.
Yeah got a rear end swap planned in an 88 from a Ford fox body with some 373 gears so
that will help out a lot.
It's just more of a daily driver, cruiser, family car.
Yeah pulled out the heater box, was planning on making it a drag car but ended up just
enjoying driving it on the street, it's got the full interior in it so now the plans are
to put it back in so I can have some heat and air conditioning.
You kind of get a little bit smarter as you get older, decide you need better things.
I've got the single plane EFI intake manifold, just a throttle body so it's got multiport
EFI on it.
It's got the Holley low mount accessory drive, intake, fuel pump, pressure regulator, Frostbite
radiators, I've got the 7inch Holley digital dash, it's got a wide variety of menus and
screens it can use on it so I really like it and it's good because I don't have any
other gauges in there other than my fuel gauge.
Yeah the 3-inch exhaust, which is another one of our products, a Hooker Blackheart exhaust
on it, kind of gives it away a little bit.
Future plans may be to get a camshaft, put some sound to it, but right now just stock
internals.
Everybody asks me if I'm going to paint it and I say no I don't have any plans to.
Yeah, I'm not worried about dinging it up or scratching it if I go somewhere.
No, I've got the Holley Dominator, I've actually got the Dominator, and it's awesome because
it controls transmission fans, fuel pump, everything, whatever you want it to control
it's pretty much there.
I've had some help tuning it, put a base tune in it, and I had some tweaks from timing and
fuel, but other than that I've never hooked a laptop to it I just drive it like it is,
it runs so good I won't ever have to mess with it.